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Originally Posted by Jeff Stout
Just for the sake of discussion if the beams were 3 inches high at the finish line could you dip a front end of one of these cars that low and steal a win? I believe so. If a rule was made that a tire only stops the timers at the finish line I have to ask how do we patrol that? I dont see how. I totally hear what you are saying Gary but I dont see how it can be patrolled and why it should be. Can you tell with your car sitting still how high is the bottom of your ground effects and from the front of your tire 6 inches up from ground how far forward is your ground effects. Also what MPH do you cross the finish line at?
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I cross the finish line between 83 & 88mph (for now until I earn the funds to freshen up my 14yr old engine work, and get a higher duration cam into it than my currently modest .218 cam), depending on the altitude of the track I'm racing at.
As for the tire stopping thing, just lower the sensor height at the finish line to match the height of the staging beam (at the start), and that would likely solve that...or raise the height of the sensor at the finish line beam to stop the timers once the most frontal part of a vehicle would cross it (much like a track& field race). This may not help a race like Dennis's & Mike's in Super Gas (since Mike's front end was twice as far forward of his tire as opposed to Dennis's), but it sure would've changed the Super Stock result. In the Super Gas final it's clear to me that instead of clocking a run in 1320ft, Mike's lower extended frontal area allowed him to race to 1319' and nearly 6"...making for his advantage over Dennis's Willy's.