[Michael Beard]

- arguing over who's got what is kinda pointless.
- Mr. Bartoli is a smart man. He wrote a Weather Station piece for my Guide to Bracket Racing many, many years ago. Still much appreciated, Fred!
- I use a Computech RaceAir Pro which I bought through Biondo Racing Products.

That being said, I may catch some grief over what I'm about to say for a number of reasons...
Any weather station will do pretty well by you. They are, however, what I would refer to as 'coarse adjustment'. No matter how good the weather station or predictor, there are still going to be variables uncounted for. Use your weather station to put you in the ballpark (and when I say ballpark, I don't mean a big ballpark... weather stations DO do a great job!), and then most importantly, watch what is actually happening on the track before you run.

Real world example: One year at Norwalk, we're all hanging out in the staging lanes, comparing notes. A bunch of us all had different weather stations, which each agreed on predicting our Stockers to run .02 slow. I went to the head of the lanes to watch Hot Rod. Now, figuring that Joe Average Hot Rod racer is set up for an .88, you would expect to see a lot of numbers from .89 to .92, given a margin of error. Most of the runs were in the .94-.98 range! My opponent dialed up .03 from qualifying... and I knew I had won the round.

The thing is, racing has gotten to a level today where you can have the best predictor in the world. If you run dead-on with an 8... in some cases you've left the door open! Dial-in and finish line strategies and abilities are more important today. You'll need them, the weather station of your choice, (plus a few more tools in your bag that I won't get into here) to find your way to the winner's circle today.

We are lucky to have so many racer-based weather station companies. You probably can't go wrong in supporting any one of them.