I've been thinkin'.....delayed a bit.

[Michael Beard]

As good as you are at the finish line why do you think that you need to drive it better? Are things getting tighter at the stripe?

I posted back on page 9...
>> When I'm chasing, I feel bad if I can't drive the stripe down to .015 or better. When I'm being chased, I can double-oh my opponent *sometimes*, but many more times, it gets to be an ugly hogging of the stripe... I've been taking a lot of .040-.050 stripes this year when getting chased. That's another .03 I have to make up on the tree! There have been numerous rounds I've lost primarily because my opponent simply had a faster car than me. Why do you think Fletcher's building a faster combination for Super Stock? Just wait til he gets that thing on the track... his win percentage is going to go up even higher.
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It's so much easier driving the stripe as the faster car that it's not even funny. Dan's investment will likely pay off very quickly. And then you'll see other people figure that out, and we'll see even more Modified cars in the future. The same thing is happening in Stock, as Tim Griffith has tried to point out. Yeah, anybody *can* win with anything... but the percentages change dramatically depending on what you're driving. More cars are being built based on what can win on Sunday rather than just what is a neat combination.

I miss the Killer V's... :-)


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