Stealthbmbr
06-21-2002, 09:28 AM
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Why does everyone pick on people for their 1/4 mile times? I see so many people post down right ignorant stuff. Just because you ran what ever time at your track does NOT mean someone else can do it at another track. 60Ft clocks vary from track to track and so does MPH. I drag race for a living. I have been bracket racing since 1990. I have driven everything from 17 second trucks to 7 sec rear engine dragsters. I travel and race from Atco, NJ to Moroso Motorsports Park in West Palm Beach, FL. I have been to more than a couple good and bad tracks over the years. My home track's 60 ft is 4 to 5 better than anywhere else on the east coast. Does it hook better there, is there some strange force that causes all cars to get better traction there? NO, the track owner set the clocks at 56 ft to get a better reading and to brag that he has the best. I have raced at tracks that the mph varies 8mph lane to lane. If I go to Atco I may run a 7.58@180mph when the air is just right. But at my home track in the dead of summer I will only go a 7.87@172. Did I screw up somewhere, did I not launch correctly or shift wrong? NO there are to many variables in drag racing. Roll out, photocell height, track distance, elevation, wind direction and speed, track temperature, tire temp, barometric pressure, humidy, actual temperature and dew point all play a part. Is the track level, does it go uphill or downhill. Did someone lose a motor in that lane the night before, was it synthetic oil which is extremely hard to clean up. Is that why I spun at the 1000ft clock and slowed from the week before .Why do you think professional drag racers spend so much time working on their stuff tuning it.
Just because you went a 14.30 in your bone stock WRX somewhere and someone else goes a 14.30 in their modded one does not mean yours is faster, you got to look at the variables. Don't rag on someone because they can only muster a 2.0 60 ft when you claim to have gotten a 1.8 the one and only time at the only track you have ever been too. How about some constructive criticism instead of breaking everyones balls all the time. Think about what you are saying before you post it. Not every tracks timing systems are dead accurate, they are just numbers to go off of. As long as there is not much difference from lane to lane who cares what the overall ET is, unless you are trying to set a world record.
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Tom Reyer
Why does everyone pick on people for their 1/4 mile times? I see so many people post down right ignorant stuff. Just because you ran what ever time at your track does NOT mean someone else can do it at another track. 60Ft clocks vary from track to track and so does MPH. I drag race for a living. I have been bracket racing since 1990. I have driven everything from 17 second trucks to 7 sec rear engine dragsters. I travel and race from Atco, NJ to Moroso Motorsports Park in West Palm Beach, FL. I have been to more than a couple good and bad tracks over the years. My home track's 60 ft is 4 to 5 better than anywhere else on the east coast. Does it hook better there, is there some strange force that causes all cars to get better traction there? NO, the track owner set the clocks at 56 ft to get a better reading and to brag that he has the best. I have raced at tracks that the mph varies 8mph lane to lane. If I go to Atco I may run a 7.58@180mph when the air is just right. But at my home track in the dead of summer I will only go a 7.87@172. Did I screw up somewhere, did I not launch correctly or shift wrong? NO there are to many variables in drag racing. Roll out, photocell height, track distance, elevation, wind direction and speed, track temperature, tire temp, barometric pressure, humidy, actual temperature and dew point all play a part. Is the track level, does it go uphill or downhill. Did someone lose a motor in that lane the night before, was it synthetic oil which is extremely hard to clean up. Is that why I spun at the 1000ft clock and slowed from the week before .Why do you think professional drag racers spend so much time working on their stuff tuning it.
Just because you went a 14.30 in your bone stock WRX somewhere and someone else goes a 14.30 in their modded one does not mean yours is faster, you got to look at the variables. Don't rag on someone because they can only muster a 2.0 60 ft when you claim to have gotten a 1.8 the one and only time at the only track you have ever been too. How about some constructive criticism instead of breaking everyones balls all the time. Think about what you are saying before you post it. Not every tracks timing systems are dead accurate, they are just numbers to go off of. As long as there is not much difference from lane to lane who cares what the overall ET is, unless you are trying to set a world record.
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Tom Reyer