What is your worst reaction time

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Thats awesome......about 8 years ago, the LAST real build I did was of a 67 Galaxy , 351 Cleveland pretty fun and dead consistent brakcet car at 12.6 spot on. Being a weekend cruiser and bracket car it was slick "on the cheap" Well right after it spent 4 months in the paint shop and was looking "right"

Well I went out to 42, looking good, ran great and I finally talked the old man into taking it down the track.

I went over everything with him, line lock, trans brake, etc....and hes sitting at the line tree goes down and hes looking down and around, at buttons and gauges and such well hed never driven a TB ca and well couldnt figure out why he wasnt going (I explained all this to him) the other Guy was long gone and on my third shout of "GO DAMMIT" he finally heard me through the glass and helmet. His hand came off the button to basically throw up in the air and off he went.....lol....2 second....

Total was 14.6.....spot on...lol. (its a big inside joke for us, "Now I dont want to be having to yell GO....pay attention to the tree)

Me probably something like that being distracted.

Originally Posted by Floyd Gomez

Thought I would add a little bit of fun as I seen someone mention a bad light in another post. A freind of mine wanted me to run his car at a bracket event. He wanted to see if the car reacted the same way with another driver. This is the first time I had ever been in an electronics car(trans brake and such). He went through the spill and I was ready to go(of course I was sure, um hum, I got it, lets go). I looked over and saw the delay timer and (yes I was that stupid) thought it was some sort of device that would control my ET. Like an idiot I hit the first little button and I got it to 5. I thought to myself "Hell yes. I want to go as fast as it will go and I know it don't run 5's. Never been faster than my 11 sec bracket car". I did my burnout and staged. I hit the transbrake button and waited on the bottom yellow released the button at full throttle banging the chip and nothing. I started looking around and was looking down at the shifter and bang. Car took off like a fat man waiting to eat at Ryans. My reaction time was 5.036 and I walked around looking to my right for several days.