The Perfect Run-picture

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many of you drag racers know how important a reaction time is. Many of you also realize how important it is to run close to your dial-in.

Just try to imagine how difficult it is to have a perfect reaction time AND run right on your dial-in...to the 1/1000th of a second.

Tommy, Tiff, and JP...regular bracket racers...look closely at the right lane of the slip below...foot brake car...no electronics/timers/delays/stops...

this is Brenda's son Michael, in a Injected 440 dart just like our old one...semi final round in his Summit ET points series....behold:


http://www.wickedwayzracing.com/perfect run.jpg
 
RE: The Perfect Run-picture

Holy crap..

That is a once in a lifetime run there!

not saying he "cant do it again", but.. IMHO..that's "THE RUN of a lifetime"!

Good thing his opponent red lit, otherwise micheal might have dipped the brake at the stripe and ruined it!

TREE'D the CRAPP OUTTA EM AND RAN RIIIIIGHT ON HIS DIAL!

Pat that guy on the back for me Craig!!!
 
RE: The Perfect Run-picture

At our track the times are taken out four decimal places

For instance..

I cut an .0008 light and ran 9.6928

Makes it tougher for the perfect run..
but none the less.

THAT PASS Craig listed above.. ROCKS!!

...craiglisted.. I made a funny!
 
RE: The Perfect Run-picture

Tom, Tiff...he has 3 more time slips from the past 3 events that had perfect lights...two during time runs, one other during elims...

he has probably cut .000 lights AND run right on his dial over 50 times...just never with a 0 at the end.

I figured you two would get a kick out of it...not many avid bracket racers in here.

BTW, since we got another race car, I am once again playing the tuner game for Brenda...I've even run it myself a few times...slow, but fun.

tuned that puppy to 3 back-to-back-toback ET's within 3/1000ths yesterday...props to Brenda for driving it that consistent as well. yes, she DOES manually shift!
 
RE: The Perfect Run-picture

Kudos to the perfect run! :)

If it were me, I'd frame that time slip!! :D

One thing I've learned at a couple 'big' drag events I've attended, these guys who do this for a living know their stuff. It may be old hat to Craig, Tom, Tiff and others, but to watch drag racers run time after time within thousandths of a second of their dial-in and consistently cut the lights within a few thousandths of a second never ceases to amaze me! I feel good if my reaction time is within a few hundreths of a second and I can dial-in my ET within a tenth of a second. :eek:

To put it in perspective, it takes almost an eternity to blink your eyes, normally 1/5 to 1/2 a second!
 
RE: The Perfect Run-picture

Wow, that is like getting a back to back hole in one.
 
RE: The Perfect Run-picture

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it takes almost an eternity to blink your eyes, normally 1/5 to 1/2 a second!
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JP...consider this the next time you miss your dial in by 2/100ths of a second.

it takes the AVERAGE human 2/100ths of a second to blink their eye.

so, you're dialed in a 13.44
you cut a .510 light
you run a 13.45 and win....

you were off by

.020 of a second from perfect.... a blink of an eye.

how important is reaction time in drag racing?

How's this for one of our time slips from 7/4 race

driver reaction was .048 slower than the other guys
the car ran a 13.296 on a 13.29 dial in
...we lost.

Imagine dialing in a 13.29 and running smack-dab right on it...13.29...with a 6!
...and losing because the other guy had a better light....

yea, reaction times are crucial.
 
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