ET with and without wheelie.

[Doug Hoven]

I'm having a very hard time understanding this 60ft change to ET change thing. Now, if you were to tell me that your car slows down in ET with a big wheelie, then yes, I would agree that you are going to have a slower 60ft by tripping the beam with a different part of the car, and you'll have a slower ET because that's how the car acts. However, to say that the 60ft clock itself has an effect on the ET, that is what I can't figure out. Bear with me, I am just a "kid," but the timer is activated once the starting line beams are broken, and as each photocell down track is "tripped," the corresponding time from the start is recorded. And the MPH works by finding the velocity given the time to travel between the speed trap and the corresponding ET trap. If a car were not to slow any ET by tripping the 60ft clock with either the front or ear tire, the 330 time should be the same. What will change is the 60ft - 330ft interval. Sometimes intervals can show some interesting things.