Red light debate update.

[Stewart Way]

Ed F
interesting comment on the fresh spray slowing your car in 60. A friend I was helping in SST at the Southern Nats a few years ago was having a great day, making it all the way to the finals. In the finals he lets go of the button, the car jumps out of the beam and makes a hard right toward the wall. The stop came on at around .2 sec and he was able to correct and miss the wall by about a foot. He coasted back toward the groove, the stop opened and he was on his way. Knowing that the car had had a problem on the line he thought he could never break out. Wrong, he was under around .07. All we could figure was that on a normal run, coasting thru the traction compound spray, the glue slowed the car and since he avoided a couple hundred feet of sticky track he was .07 faster.
Your the only person I have ever heard, other than us, say the glue slows you. I believe it.

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Stewart Way

Ed F
interesting comment on the fresh spray slowing your car in 60. A friend I was helping in SST at the Southern Nats a few years ago was having a great day, making it all the way to the finals. In the finals he lets go of the button, the car jumps out of the beam and makes a hard right toward the wall. The stop came on at around .2 sec and he was able to correct and miss the wall by about a foot. He coasted back toward the groove, the stop opened and he was on his way. Knowing that the car had had a problem on the line he thought he could never break out. Wrong, he was under around .07. All we could figure was that on a normal run, coasting thru the traction compound spray, the glue slowed the car and since he avoided a couple hundred feet of sticky track he was .07 faster.
Your the only person I have ever heard, other than us, say the glue slows you. I believe it.

Stewart,I'm dieing if I'm lieing.

[Jack McCarthy]

glue slows my car .04 in 1/8 and .08 in 1/4 at indy every year...

they do not do an entire track spray until friday for the fuelers... all time runs and class show the distinct difference

also smoke (and less Oxygen) from campfires at national events slows me down if i am ever still racing that late

jack

4470# U/SA 50 chevy WAGON
and P.S > I hope the track sucks when we race !

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Jack McCarthy

glue slows my car .04 in 1/8 and .08 in 1/4 at indy every year...

they do not do an entire track spray until friday for the fuelers... all time runs and class show the distinct difference

also smoke (and less Oxygen) from campfires at national events slows me down if i am ever still racing that late

jack

4470# U/SA 50 chevy WAGON
and P.S > I hope the track sucks when we race !

One reason Atco is so fast could be that it'sw in the middle of the pine barrens.A lot of trees equals a lot of oxygen in the air.A good borometer doesn't hurt either.
Jack,does the rear of the car lift on top due to the "wings"?