How to drive the stripe...NOT!

[flyfish]

Had to share this. Last week I said that I never get perfect lights in competition, only in practice.....well, this week I did. Second round on Father's Day, I was up against Holden English (if you race in the mid west you probably know this kid)...very accomplished racer at such a young age. Anyway, I knew I would have to hit the tree harder than my normal comfort zone of 0.02x. Well, I hit the tree alright...triple zip...and apparently I was WAY too late on hitting the brake at the stripe, LOL. I scrubbed 1.5 MPH and about 0.01...but I normally can scrub 0.02 doing this (done it MANY times in the past) I need to have someone get some video of my car at the stripe on the brake, because I might be tripping the finish line beam with the nose of the car when I'm hard on the brake...because I don't think I took 0.047stripe like the ticket says. I thought I had about 0.01 stripe.......Oh well, next thing on my list of things to make for the car might be a stripe taker.

Does anyone else use a stripe taker on their A body?

 

[Dart Sport 360]

If you would have dial it hard and ran it through you probably would have had him. He was way to close to his number with a decent light for you to be bagging that hard... especially in the 1/8th..

But what to I know.... I use to bag a lot but I find that consistently (like running withing 5 hundreds all day) and a decent light will push a lot of guys under.

Still a close race. You got beat by the math as I like to put it.

 

[flyfish]

If you would have dial it hard and ran it through you probably would have had him. He was way to close to his number with a decent light for you to be bagging that hard... especially in the 1/8th..

But what to I know.... I use to bag a lot but I find that consistently (like running withing 5 hundreds all day) and a decent light will push a lot of guys under.

Still a close race. You got beat by the math as I like to put it.

I think you missed my point, but I'll try my best to clear it up. I was dialed 0.01 soft, or "bagging" as you put it. I was set up to run a 6.85 on my 6.86 dial if I left my foot on the floor. My car will repeat within a few thousandths of a second all day. If I dial soft, I usually only hold enough to cover my reaction time...since my reaction times are usually in the 0.01x-0.02x range I decided to dial 0.01 soft. One of the many reasons for dialing soft on occasion (no, I don't do this all the time) is because my track has a LOT of heavy hitters that can squeeze into your "dial it hard and run it out the back door" winning package a lot of the time....not to mention if the starting line goes away it gives you a chance to still run close to your number...Anyways, back to my actual point.

My car broke out by more than I think is possible (after looking at the incrementals of the run), so I believe I took the stripe with the nose of the car since the finish line beams are 6-8 inches above the ground. By putting a stripe taker on the nose of the car, the car will always trip the beam with the same part of the car, thus making it more consistent (even under braking). Does that help?

 

[Dart Sport 360]

I guess I missed your point.... Since you scrubbed 1.5 mph on an 1/8 mile pass and tripped the beams with the front of your car I assumed you dumped it pretty hard and had plenty in the tank. My mistake.

 

[440outlawdart]

bret kepner has one of those on his car

 

[flyfish]

You know what....I think I need to drink my coffee before typing....I miscalculated...According to my NEW calculations (with coffee) I would have run a 6.843, so I only scrubbed 0.007 ish. If I tripped the beam with the nose of the car I would have run much quicker than 6.85, probably a 6.81 ish :banghead:....my bad, not thinking straight. :coffee2::coffee2::coffee2: