Did we land on the Moon?

[Andys dad]

As a 45 year IT professional and geek - this thread is fake news.

Drag racers never want to accept responsibility.

The cars are excellent examples of precision but can have a rare blip or hiccup.

Pop corn machines causing electrical lows - electrical surges do not effect the out come.

All current day computers and software have built in fault tolerances and protections against such things especially where accurate outcomes are vital.

Look no father than an occasional fly in the ointment.

More than my 2 cents worth.

[jmcarter]

Originally Posted by Andys dad

As a 45 year IT professional and geek - this thread is fake news.

Drag racers never want to accept responsibility.

The cars are excellent examples of precision but can have a rare blip or hiccup.

Pop corn machines causing electrical lows - electrical surges do not effect the out come.

All current day computers and software have built in fault tolerances and protections against such things especially where accurate outcomes are vital.

Look no father than an occasional fly in the ointment.

More than my 2 cents worth.

If so how do you explain NHRA reruns at Indy for some .90 cars?

[Andys dad]

Originally Posted by jmcarter

If so how do you explain NHRA reruns at Indy for some .90 cars?

I don't need it explained - you do. Ask them.

Enough bitching wins sometimes.

It is a lot more likely that something in all of the myriad of electronics in today's cars there is an issue.


Ron

[Kevin Panzino]

The timing control hardware is totally independent of the pc used to interface with it and where they enter the dials and see the display of the results. The pc running slow would only delay getting the run ready or displaying the run. The timing computer is separate, uses solid state oscillator for calculating the timing and has no variance with voltage.

The Symth family from portatree also can also clear this up.

Now, the heights of the beams is indeed critical and could explain lane to lane differences as well as “missing” a very skinny dragster wheel.

[jmcarter]

Originally Posted by Andys dad

I don't need it explained - you do. Ask them.

Enough bitching wins sometimes.

It is a lot more likely that something in all of the myriad of electronics in today's cars there is an issue.


Ron

Perhaps you’re right, Jeff Taylor doesn’t know jack... (ref. the podcast I mentioned earlier).

I’ll admit I don’t know much about the geek equation, hope you and Andy aren’t the victim of karma in the upcoming west coast races.

[Wayne Kerr]

Originally Posted by Andys dad

As a 45 year IT professional and geek - this thread is fake news.

Drag racers never want to accept responsibility.

The cars are excellent examples of precision but can have a rare blip or hiccup.

Pop corn machines causing electrical lows - electrical surges do not effect the out come.

All current day computers and software have built in fault tolerances and protections against such things especially where accurate outcomes are vital.

Look no father than an occasional fly in the ointment.

More than my 2 cents worth.

Hello Ron,
I think you are a good guy and we have spoken on a number of occasions. I do however think you are being naïve, guys like Johnny D, Dan Fletcher and Peter Biondo who have made thousands of runs can spot an erroneous time slip from a mile away.
Bob Brockmeyer will defend his timing system to the death, he has to.
I have seen first hand a situation where the M.O.V. should have been .0000 each and every run, where in actuality the time slips indicated up to an .008 difference on the time slips that I saw. This was at the U.S. Nationals and yes they re-ran the entire round.
Here's an interesting test from a few years ago.


See you at the races,
Wayne Kerr

[Andys dad]

Originally Posted by Wayne Kerr

I took a look at this video and it is a little unsettling - this is not a computer issue it is an electrical engineering issue which is likely different at every single track.

It is not just the aiming of the beams either.

Very difficult to solve given the topical diversity - lay of the land and landscape of all of the nationwide tracks.

IMHO

I should not have had opinion. There is way more to the sacred ground of timing slips than the computer.

I stand corrected.



Ron

[Marty Buth]

I will add a personal experience to this thread. About 5 years ago at the U.S. Nationals, during class run offs, I left the line and my ET quickly popped up on the scoreboard at .865 seconds. My competitor and i finished the run, with me winning by about a car length, but his win light came on. We went to the tower and they couldn't explain what happened. We did get to rerun. I was in the right lane.