Anybody Have Video of the Epic Burndown in Stock at Sonoma?

[Toby Lang]

The participants were Tommy Gaynor and Jim Meador. Jim doesn't play any games at the line. He did his normal deal and went in and lit the pre-stage bulb. Tommy apparently left his water pump on in the staging lanes and I guess he didn't realize it until after he did his burnout. Supposedly, his car was too cold and the computer would go into closed loop or something like that. So instead of doing the right thing and staging in a timely fashion, he figured this would be a good time to warm the car up to open loop temperature and in the process hang Jim out to dry. The starter waved at him to stage, but he just kept inching closer and closer while warming his car up.

Jim ended up losing by .004. He had a .03 light to Tommy's .06, but ran .04 over his dial. Obviously, Jim's car was hotter than normal and this contributed to his running slow.

Somebody told me they were watching it on live timing and the burndown "had to have been two minutes."