Mopar racer Nick Bowman doubles up

clementine said

I drive stick cars so pardon the stupidity here.

If I have this correct, the “box” delays the trans brake from releasing. What I can’t figure is, at some point you still have to have the timing down to get the box to release when you want it to. So if you tell the box to delay xx, there is still a reaction time no? How does this help? Why not just release the trans brake on the third yellow?

Again, just learning.

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If I footbrake or let go of a transbrake when the third yellow comes on I’m red because my car leaves pretty hard. Letting go when the very top bulb lites at keystone I have 1.045 delay in the box. At Dragway 42 I put 1.067 in and at Norwalk because of the fiber optic wiring I have 1.075 in the box. After I leave go of the button my car will go to 4200 on the 2 step then flash to 5760 when the transbrake let’s go. Some guys have a second button that they can hit to bump down the delay if they think they missed the tree. I don’t play that game.