.90 questions from mars....

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Far from simple I guess....I cannot get my head all the way around the strategy emploued and the reasoning for it. Thats the problem.

As I said in the start my contrary posts werent disagreement but my way of asking a question, to get someone to tell me why its done a certain way.

But to me, racing to the stripe in a 9.90 race seems contratry you are depending on your opponent to be as close.

Why not hammer it to the 1200 and lock em up and watch your opponent sail by and break out while you crawl across at 50 mph ? To me , if Im racing to the stripe Im depending on my opponent to be dialed accurate ? No ?

Im so flippin confused, and confused why you would even (as a begginer) worry anything about that and run it like a bracket car set dead to 9.90 and forget about the other guy......I dont know like I said, maybe its blood loss.....Maybe all my skull fractures are catching up with me.

Originally Posted by voltdr

Drooze,
Super Class racing is just like Stock or Super Stock or ET Brackets, except that someone else tells you your dial-in. What if in SS and STK you raced on the index and not a dial-under. How would you kill you ET? We use our throttle stops. That's where the problem starts. It's the time ON the stop that causes all the trouble with really knowing what your car will run. The longer on the stop the more chance for error. If you wait until after 660' you will be on the stop way too long. There was a SC car at INDY last year only running 118 MPH. However you are right that winning is about leaving on time and running your dial-in, just like other classes. Why do some Stk and SS racers hold .03-.05. It's because of the RT. If I'm .04 late on the tree but my car is setup to run a .86 then our race may look close to the other guy running .90x and .005 RT. That's where driving the finish line comes in. That is where it's easier to race the stripe if you can see your opponent, and the finish line w/o turning around, especially if there is a 15-20MPH difference in speed. We always like to have someone new come in show us how simple it appears to be. Just let go of the button and run the number. Nothing to it, come on in, the water is fine.