Video of Biondo's win over Fletcher's close call

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by philbilly

Sorry the score board racers don't see it the same way.

Your either in front or behind you should never be wide open!!

There is wide range of braking available between wide-open and locked up. Again, I've had more than one car come into my lane, so I believe this is an important discussion that should be taken seriously.

At one of our events, a driver was doing a lot of sliding sideways through the traps, and despite eye-rolling at "the lecture", they bothered to work on the car, and found a caliper locking up. They fixed it, and ended up with a not only safer but also better working car that allowed him to stop hard without the car moving around or smoking the tires. Had they ignored it and continued to drop hard every single run as a standard strategy, it would've been only a matter of time before one or more cars got wrecked. I've had a front caliper hang up, I've had a pin break in a rear drum, and I've had the adjustment on a rear drum move, each of which caused the car to move. Things happen.

Just for the record when I watched the video I thought Thomas did a great job saving the car but what about Pete eatin the drop up??anyone got the numbers at the stripe??

MOV = .038.
http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...r2014#indextop


Dan said it best:

Some may want to pontificate on the hard braking issue, but it's part of bracket racing, like it or not. You brake as quickly and as strongly as you can safely do. Safely being the key word, and in our case it apparently wasn't, given the combination of car and driver at that moment. I'm off to go fix and inspect my car.