Interesting Tree Malfunction
 

June 19th at the Bandimere Speedway Divisional

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5BIAz6W2w

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Time Slip from the run

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A little hard to explain that. I didn't see the car move. It didn't look like he went in deep.

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Yes, the other weird part is that he is about 5 tenths off all the way down the track from every other pass he ran. The other strange part is that it seems to have occurred again in the final round with Bob Johnson.

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I had this happen a few times to me, with an HF/SA Sunbird. Billy (the car owner) had built a new header for it. The header, which came down the front, would sometimes trip the beam. I could not be staged shallow, or what happened in the video would occasionally happen to me, and get a bad redlight (second amber or ealy on the third) without moving an inch. Like the ET slip shows, I was red by large margin (about -.4 to -.5 red, and all my incremental numbers down track would be off by the same amount. If I was shown as .233 red (old style, now a -.267), I'd be off about .26 ET all the way down. It is possible that something on the car was in the beam, hanging by the tire which caused this issue. Once I pumped my front slicks up to 45-50 PSI, I wouldn't have an issue (the header would gain clearance, because the front of the car sat higher). If they were 35-40, I could get a redlight at times. Have your friend go through and check ANYTHING that could interrupt the beam (wire, front spoiler, etc) and move/remove it, so this issue won't happen again.

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I think the old TV show the "X Files" had a story on this.

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Something else tripped the bulb. That car didnt move, if it did, it was fractions of an inch, FORWARD.

I was at a bracket race back some yrs ago and a frog was hanging out by the guardrail and would block the beam, a few times until starter finally saw him. tree would blink some with no car there, so it became obvious something was there, that shouldnt have been.

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Sad way to lose a race.

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So he didnt lift after he left the line?

Obviously the timer started when the stage lights went off. It's definetely a malfunction because both lights went out at the same time! Shouldnt the pre stage light go out a split second before the stage when the car takes off?

Seems very similar to the issue at Pomona in Super Stock this year???

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Jody,

He did not lift. It also occurred in the final round of stock eliminator as well. It shows that Bob Johnson LB3A and ran a second slow, however since Randy red lit, Bob's tree came down normally and did not stop the way Michaels did.