| stealth |
Ok here is my question, I always see the GMC Syclones leaving a little after they tree hits green.
My question is, do they start timing once the light hits green or once you trip the beams?
The reason I ask this is because once at bud park, they started the lights to quick for me and thus i had a delayed launch.
I want to know if it is fine to leave after the green light, or would this result in a higher 1/4 mile run.
or if it would only result in a shitty reaction time, which i dont really care about.
Thx
Sam |
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| 95IntegraRS |
| Once you cross the line your time is being recorded. If you sit there and gel your hair and then go, well, the gelling your hair part doesn't count if you get what I'm saying. Your just gonna have one slow ass reaction time, which doesn't affect your overall E.T. Just get the rev's down, don't worry about the tree too much. |
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| stealth |
Thats good then.
I hate it when the greasemonkeys start the tree right when i stage. |
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| DarrylBleau |
| Doesn't the tree start at a random interval that is not human-controlled? As far as I understood the system, they hit the button to tell the system that it's 'ready' but the actual start of the tree is random. But I could be wrong. I think I read that in the NHRA rulebook. Or maybe that was a dream I had :). |
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| THEONE |
| Yes its autocontroled! |
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| vr6T |
| the time starts once you trip the light. The typhoons/ Syclones leave once they build enough boost ;) |
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| SRBURG13 |
Isn't on bracket racing you can leave the line whenever you want after the green light?
Also, on normal racing, people leave the line earlier because there are two beams across the lane which signal the staging lights, first and second. You can leave earlier than the green light by fractions of seconds because the time starts when you reconnect the second beam (tire leaves the beams path), so you would have about a half foot of space to already roll before the light hits green. Something like that. |
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| ManHunter |
Yep, leaving late won't change your E.T, but depending on the type of race, it might cause you to lose the race.
If the race is "first at the end wins", your E.T might be 2/10 faster than the other guy but if your reaction was 3/10 slower, you still lose.
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| stealth |
quote:
Originally posted by SRBURG13
Isn't on bracket racing you can leave the line whenever you want after the green light?
Also, on normal racing, people leave the line earlier because there are two beams across the lane which signal the staging lights, first and second. You can leave earlier than the green light by fractions of seconds because the time starts when you reconnect the second beam (tire leaves the beams path), so you would have about a half foot of space to already roll before the light hits green. Something like that.
I was told to leave at the last yellow. Been producing .0XX reaction times, and 1.8-2.0 60 feet;) |
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| SRBURG13 |
quote:
Originally posted by stealth
I was told to leave at the last yellow. Been producing .0XX reaction times, and 1.8-2.0 60 feet;)
Yeah, you leave at the last yellow, so you leave the last beam at the last possible moment, therefore causing those super low r/t's. |
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| v8slayer |
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Originally posted by vr6T
the time starts once you trip the light. The typhoons/ Syclones leave once they build enough boost ;)
WERD!:bthumbup: |
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| Neo-Blue99GASE |
| I usually leave at the last yellow as well, Stealth told me about it. |
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| Keith303 |
| A cyclone won at the 100ft drags in camrose, with AWD+Boosting at the line.... nothing else had a chance |
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| DarrylBleau |
quote:
Originally posted by Keith303
A cyclone won at the 100ft drags in camrose, with AWD+Boosting at the line.... nothing else had a chance
All I can say is, wait for next year :). If all goes as planned I want to give the boogie van or whatever it's called a run for it's money. |
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| Mavrick |
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Originally posted by Keith303
A cyclone won at the 100ft drags in camrose, with AWD+Boosting at the line.... nothing else had a chance
The Syclone won it's class, but it was not the fastest vehicle overall. A 1968 Camaro had the fastest time of the day, which I believe was 1.629 seconds.
Not to knock the Syclones by any means. They were definitely the fastest things to drive into the event (not trailered) and on street tires.
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