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[Ellis V Buth]

Originally Posted by Lenny5160_v2

I do this all the time if I am bracket racing and have a bye. Lift at the 1000' (or 330' for 1/8 mile) and put it dead-on, just to show everyone that I can. It's not sorcery.

With Troy being in a slow car for the class, almost any opponent has the ability to come up and throw a wheel on him. He's found a way to take that away by being so extremely slow and further decelerating when the other cars are charging. That's creative thinking and it's obviously working!

In 2020 at the bracket finals I qualified for sportsman class but didn't have a competitive car that ran 12.00 or slower at the time. I decided to race my pro car (since I was footbraking and hand shifting anyways) and simply lift at the 1/8th mile cone as if I were racing to there. I ended up making the final round before choosing to give up the stripe instead of taking it.

Car ran consistently driving that way based on what the 1/8th mile times were. 12.45 at 72 MPH isn't what several of the other drivers were expecting...especially the ones dialed around 12.90 and I'd go flying past them before 330' and then they'd start catching me quickly after I performed my spot drop.

I personally prescribe to this simply being a different strategy and not a situation of cheating. While I'm sure there is a way a person could cheat doing something like this I know it is possible to do it competitively from my personal experience.