Jeg's All Star coverage!

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Bobby DiDomenico

That would be OK since they are staging with the same device correct? In the example above they are sayng a car which stages with the tire broke the win beam with body work. Not good.

Is that why they moved the spectator stands away from the finish line at Joliet? So you can't see who actually won? :-)

Bobby, I was the one who made that comment, and last night I re-watched the staging of both cars, and it looked to me as though the Cavaliers front end moved forward of the staging beams to thus stage with the tire, however the freeze frame at the end showed the Cavaliers tire clearly being behind the rear-most edge of the wagons front tire as it tripped the finish line beams. However, the front nose of the Cavalier was right there close enough to the front edge of the wagons tire to explane the narrow victory for Greg...I hope somebody else who saw/taped this race will look at it so as to agree/disagree with my oppinion, but as I said before verrry interesting....

[partsbob67]

some of the guys that i bracket race with use a "stripe taker" mounted up by the front bumper and it only hits the beam at the top end. they stage with the tire and take the stripe with the wing. cheatin bastards!

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by deuces wild

It was a great show for once. In car cameras to. One question they showed the Benham v Fletcher race in Comp. It clearly showed Scott at the stripe first, but Dan getting the win. ED

Another reason I thought that was interesting, was after seeing the margin of victory between Greg Luneacks wagon, and Slate Cummings '08 Cavalier (plus knowing that Greg's margin of victory was .0062), I thought it was odd that the front tire of Greg's car just edged out the front tip of Slate's Cavalier, and that the lowest edge of Slate's front end was low enough to be able to trip the finish light beem---thus making me feel like his tire may start his race, but his frontal facia (especially if under braking), could dip low enough to trip the lights at the end)...did any body else notice that??? Clearly Gregs whole tire crossed the line ahead of Slate's Cavalier, but given the obviously ultra fast revolutions of the thousandts of a second, I think more than .006 would've elapsed between Greg's tire crossing the finish line than when Slate's tire did??? Any physics/math majors here who can agree/disagree with my thoughts, because that's verrrry interesting!!???