[Bernie Cunningham]

Originally Posted by tgriffith

the reason slow cars are at a real disadvantage is they arent quick enough to flash race on the bottom bulb,,,,I dont care who you are,,,no footbrake racer is as good as a racer CORRECTLY using an adjustable 2 step and adjustable button,,,look at your winners and you will see,,,,very rarely will a footbraker will any nationals anymore,,,,,let alone any slow cars,,,its rare compared to the results of 4 or 5 years ago,,,,,,,,,once rounds start coming closer togther,,then it evens out between footers and button racers but with extreme conditions of night and day,,,,behind top fuels,,,,and so on,,,,,the adjustable 2step and buttons are nearly unbeatable,,,,

I do alot of testing on cars,,,,making changes to see the effects of such things tire pressure,,,timing,,,and other stuff and in no way letting out pressure in rear tires even compares to adjusting a 2 step,,,,,there are other variables that you just cant count on in raising or lowering tire pressure on footbrake cars......

this is my biggest beef with the 2 steps and buttons,,,,,,I personally dont think anyone winning is cheating,,,,for me its not a cheating issue,,,,

tgriffith, a regular poster on this site, I have now idea how you've come up with that much 'bunk' in one post !!!!!

It doesn't matter whether your footbraking or using a button in a slower car, the bottom yellow is the GO, unless you need to anticipate it with a slower car, it makes no difference!

I believe you are wrong about slow cars that can't win, check out the foot braking Langs for instance! They, and a bunch more racers got screwed a fews years back when all of the whiny boys got deep staging eliminated. Sounds like the same 'cry for help' with this subject !!!!!

Are you implying that Top Fuel has an outcome in a Stk/SS race that's deep into eliminations? Good God man.

If you don't have your car set for react by the time eliminations come around, I'm sorry, your not paying enough attention to detail, 'quityasnivlin'

Haven't you figured it out, after all these years of racing, just what nightime will do to your reaction yet ??? We now have LED's that changed all of those problems, unless ya still got one in your head.

Do you really think that a button is being adjusted all the time? Most button racers never adjust it, the same one stay's in the car from race to race. The biggest change made on a daily basis is starting line RPM, nothing more and nothing less. I reckon your dumb-founded here but I will agree that the Five O button is BS (include the obvious cheater button, the AX.) Your also polluting the argument with racers that blind the tree, a whole nother subject.

I would love to see your testing results, just how scientific are they, are you a robot that can duplicate a react and tell yourself the truth as to what you just did with weather and track changes etc.????

Thank you for agreeing on the 'no cheaters' part. That's a moot point.

I think you validated the use of two steps in your last sentence, if you cant't keep the starting line RPM's consistent and the rest of the variables, how the hell are ya gonna get any better at what you do and know what is making a difference??

We race because it's a CONTEST, repeat a CONTEST, we try to be the best ya can be, whether your setting records or trying to win the race, if you don't understand the big picture you'll never get it. Winners in the ND talk about it all the time !!

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TWO STEPS AND BUTTONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

Whoa ! that's enough of that ! B