Brad Plourd, you were robbed last week!

HawkBrosMav · 04-29-2010, 11:41 PM

What you fail to grasp is the concept of bracket racing... We will go with the Mike and Dennis race since you brought it up. Each driver dial's his car after making time run's. In super gas this consist of putting a number in a throttle stop timer not changing the number on the side of your car like we would in s/ss. Mike will put a number in the timer in his car to start with the tire and take the strip with his nose (which is 2ft in front of his tire). Dennis will put a number in his timer that will be based off his car leaving with the tire and taking the stripe with the tire. They run the race mike gets to the end parks his nose just in front of Dennis's tire and win's by .00x.

I will now explain why this is not only the correct out come but it will not even change if you lower the beam to make mike take the stripe with his tire. (This is what you seem to be so adamant about doing)

Now that the beam has been lowered to 3". here is how it would go down. Dennis's pass and number in the timer would remain exactly the same as his car would still be leaving and finishing with the tire. Mike on the other hand would now have to put less time in his throttle stop timer to make up the difference in ET from his car taking the stripe with the tire now.

We both agree Mike would have been slower if his car took the stripe with the tire. What you don't seem to be able to understand is that Mike would have KNOWN his car was going to be slow and he would have made the adjustment in the timer before he even staged the car.

After Mike makes this change the race would go just as it did. Mike would still light the win bulb. Absolutely the only difference would be the picture that you keep looking at in technicolor. Mike's nose would now be way ahead of Dennis's lil pickup and Mike's tire would now be the part of his car that was edging Dennis for the stripe by .00x.

I'm not trying to be an asshole I'm just trying to help a fellow racer understand a basic concept of drag racing.

Brad Hawk

04-29-2010, 11:41 PM	#28
HawkBrosMav Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 362 Likes: 6 Liked 302 Times in 73 Posts	Re: Brad Plourd, you were robbed last week! What you fail to grasp is the concept of bracket racing... We will go with the Mike and Dennis race since you brought it up. Each driver dial's his car after making time run's. In super gas this consist of putting a number in a throttle stop timer not changing the number on the side of your car like we would in s/ss. Mike will put a number in the timer in his car to start with the tire and take the strip with his nose (which is 2ft in front of his tire). Dennis will put a number in his timer that will be based off his car leaving with the tire and taking the stripe with the tire. They run the race mike gets to the end parks his nose just in front of Dennis's tire and win's by .00x. I will now explain why this is not only the correct out come but it will not even change if you lower the beam to make mike take the stripe with his tire. (This is what you seem to be so adamant about doing) Now that the beam has been lowered to 3". here is how it would go down. Dennis's pass and number in the timer would remain exactly the same as his car would still be leaving and finishing with the tire. Mike on the other hand would now have to put less time in his throttle stop timer to make up the difference in ET from his car taking the stripe with the tire now. We both agree Mike would have been slower if his car took the stripe with the tire. What you don't seem to be able to understand is that Mike would have KNOWN his car was going to be slow and he would have made the adjustment in the timer before he even staged the car. After Mike makes this change the race would go just as it did. Mike would still light the win bulb. Absolutely the only difference would be the picture that you keep looking at in technicolor. Mike's nose would now be way ahead of Dennis's lil pickup and Mike's tire would now be the part of his car that was edging Dennis for the stripe by .00x. I'm not trying to be an asshole I'm just trying to help a fellow racer understand a basic concept of drag racing. Brad Hawk