Heads-Up Runs

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Originally Posted by CrateCamaro

Jim Rountree

So your telling me that when there is class run off''s and theres 9 cars and you know that your in the middle of the pack you run wide open in the first round of class even though you KNOW you have the guy covered, lets say by 3 tenths? Why? Why would you show the other guys in your class what you have? SO they can go back and find more ET? Speak softly and carry a big stick is what I was taught and by the looks of how this post is going everyone else agrees. Im always bagging 1 1/2 to 2 tenths when I bracket race and when its heads up time...throw a tunup in and go. But I guess for the purists in the class thats a nono. Those same guys dial everything tight and run it out the door every time when they are bracket racing....never scrub the brakes, never burp the throttle. Trapped in the days when there was 29 SS/L cars to run against and when Christ was a cowboy running the Crondek Timing equipment. 5 years ago in Norwalk Ohio at a IHRA National there was only going to be 2 GT/DA cars racing as of thursday night...friday while we were in the lanes making the first time run 2 more pulled in. We dumped at the 1000 and scrubbd the brakes to a 10.40. The two guys that pulled in late grabbed a qualifying sheet, seen that we were the slowest and never Radial'd or tuned up the cars. Guess what...they were both out in the first round of class because of that, They had all the GT/DA cars covered by a tenth or more easy with a tuneup and tire change. So is it smart to lift....?

When I was bracket racing sometimes I would dump if a faster car blew by me at the stripe.

In over 40 years of class racing I have never dumped nor let off at 1000ft. I always ran it out the back door. Cause that's drag racing.

Let me ask you a question: if you can run 1.14 under and they hit you with 4hp can't you still run about 1 under, if they hit you with 10 hp couldn't you still run under the index....sure you could.

JimR