Starting Line Beam vs Rest of the Track

[Rich Biebel]

I raced a '97 Firebird Stocker for a year or two. It had single adjustable front shocks. If I set them loose and had the nose low the car would drop the nose very quickly and as everyone knows, that front overhang is way out front.......

I rasied the nose some but still had the shocks set loose....I had no down travel limiter device like a stop or maybe some cable limiters....

I had a race at E-Towns Lucas event......Raced a car dialed at 13.9x I was in the 10.80's all weekend. Speed was never over 123. I had the better RT but not by a lot.... .010 to .02x ......I was pretty hard on the brakes and admittedly had dialed UP as the sun was very hot.......In a doulble breakout race I lost. My speed on that run was almost 124.......My friends saw the race from the stands and saw me drop the nose and said I was down before the stripe......I assumed the nose got me....or I was later on the brakes than I thought......Ran 1 MPH faster hard on the brakes than flat out.......