Racing the stripe if you have the lead

Driving the stripe is perhaps the hardest part , I was in two finals with in a month 003 ( deep staging / .500 pro tree ) on the tree to an 009 and an 027 and lost at the stripe both times by poor driving as my program moves towards pro tree and index racing only I definitely have to up my game at the stripe. In 11.50 index racing almost everybody including myself is set up to run a few hun quicker and drive the stripe to run 11.50 . A few years ago I " sandbagged " against a guy I really wanted to beat ( long story ) it was a pro dial race (.500 pro tree ) the previous round I was dialed 11.39 , the round I had to run him I dialed up to 11.50 like he was , I was better on the tree and just paced him all the way down for the round win . It was fun and a payback of sorts.