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Old 03-07-2009, 07:04 AM   #1
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Racing Season Begins Today!

In about 90 minutes I'm heading down to Raceway Park for my 1st event of the season - Street Wars #1. I won the final SW event last season and looking for another today. What's even better is that they're actually going to pay out to 1/4's, instead of just to Semi's like they always have in the past, provided they get at least a 32-car field for each class.

I'll be running the Street Stock class. I can't wait! Plus the weather's supposed to be unusually warm today - 65 degrees!!! After the last few days it'll probably feel like 80 to me.
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in your Alero?

Every track in my state doesn't open until April 4th. It sucks.
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Old 03-07-2009, 05:52 PM   #3
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Have fun Mitch. I'll see you next week.

Beat up those ricers and you can pay my track fees next week

Ion, one track around here opens the 2nd week in Jan, but only on Saturdays and Sundays
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Old 03-07-2009, 07:24 PM   #4
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must be nice that have tracks that open that early the track up here doesn't open up until the first of may
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Old 03-08-2009, 09:38 AM   #5
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[quote='[ion] C2;438820']in your Alero?
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Nah. I run my '93 Daytona.

And my day ended early yesterday due to a stupid STUPID mistake on my part. Well, 2 really:

STUPID MISTAKE #1: I had been running a consistent 16.91, but then had a slower run in elimination round #2 due to a bad launch (wrong rpm, tire spin, and engine too cool). Instead of leaving my dial alone I bumped it up to 16.97.

STUPID MISTAKE #2: I easily had him covered but instead of letting up past the 1000' clocks like I usually do, I waited this time until I got closer to the ET clocks before I hit the brakes.

RESULTS: I cut a .022 light against his .232 light (I had been runing tight lights all day, though I obviously didn't know about his launch until after the run). I see he's not going to catch me so I eventually hit the brakes to slow down and not break out. I broke out anyway going 16.949 on a 16.97 dial. Had I left the original 16.91 dial alone I would have won by .2 and been over my dial by 0.039 seconds.

It had been running dead on all day and yet I F---ed myself. 2 rounds later I would have had money, too. We had almost 80 cars in the class, which meant 7 rounds of racing. And they were paying out to 1/4's this time instead of just to semi's. DAMN!!!!!

What made things worse was Autostart - the new system that requires you to stage EXTREMELY quickly if you're the 2nd car into the beams. Once 1 car fully stages and the other car then turns on the pre-stage bulb, that 2nd car has to fully stage within 10 seconds. Once that 2nd stage light comes on the car only has 1.7 seconds to get ready to launch before the tree comes down. And since I have to bump my car in 3 bumps I'm left with not enough time since I'm usually the slower car of the 2 so I have to launch first.

Several times I was caught short because my opponent staged immediately and I was kept out because they were mopping my side of the track. That put a severe disadvantage on me. The slower Round 2 was because by the time I got 2 bumps in the tree was already coming down so I just hit the convertor hard and launched, causing me to overrev and spin off the line. It did hell to my RT, too, giving me a .112 light. Fortunately my opponent had a .244 light and then broke out trying to pass me up top.

Autostart is NHRA's newest tool to prevent DEEP Staging, knowing that it's even harder now to properly deep stage if you only have 1.7 seconds to do it if the race ahead of you had already completed. Good thing I began to practice shallow staging last fall.
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Old 03-08-2009, 10:38 AM   #6
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daytowned? lol sorry about your bad luck.
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Old 03-08-2009, 11:40 AM   #7
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lucky...the track here opens up the second Saturday in April.
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This new Autostart is going to really suck this season
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The trick will be to stage while the previous pair are still going down the track. That way you can be set before Autpstart kicks in. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done when the starting line crew won't let you near the line until way after.
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The trick will be to stage while the previous pair are still going down the track. That way you can be set before Autpstart kicks in. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done when the starting line crew won't let you near the line until way after.

What happens when you go around the water box and stage, but the other car does a full, long burnout to heat up his slicks?
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You can deep stage with no problems

That's I plan on doing
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What happens when you go around the water box and stage, but the other car does a full, long burnout to heat up his slicks?

Same thing that happened to me Sunday when both of us went around the water box. The driver should always wait in the pre-stage beam for the other driver to pre-stage, especially when they know the guy is going deep but can't get up to the line yet (burnouts, guy mopping up the previous driver, etc.), but they weren't doing that. Guys pulled around the water and immediately staged, leaving you pressed for time.
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isnt that like an unwritten rule in racer etiquette? thats a rooster move to fully stage before the other guy is even pre-staged.
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^Yep.
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