August Speed Badges

[Resophonic Racing]

Whatever adjustments were made to the start gate, has the track running more inline with years past. As QT stated minor changes to springs, position of the start pins and angle of the start gate latch all play a huge roll in your final recorded speed. Assuming the angle of the hill stays the same as well. I'm all for accurate data and proper badges. For now I say let it ride and re-address a reboot in January. I would like to see what the widow fleet would run right now.

A walk down memory lane in Street Stock:

Going Sub 3.0 with heavy wheels and graphite was a huge accomplishment.

Running in the low .98x's with oil was fast....real fast.

Breaking .97x's was Elite "Kinser Scream" anyone!

John used to say "I'm going to will a Street Stock to .95x's". That was sonic boom territory for sure.

More Food for thought

What would street stock times be if we were all running Cheetah V.1's? We would be thinking .97x's was real fast...LOL.

I'm looking forward to next month, should be an interesting race for sure!

 

[Rocket car]

Whew! I'm back!

Rocket Car, don't be messin with my badge! 41st in Street Stock Pro at the 1st MOTM Qualifier isnt exactly what I had in mind. lol

Cheer up, it was still better than "Milwaukee's Worst" 51th

Wait a new one it being born right now.

This one WILL be

 

[tmeyer]

Cheer up, it was still better than "Milwaukee's Worst" 50th

Any idea why that car is wiggling so badly? Too light on the FDW or ?

 

[Rocket car]

Cheer up, it was still better than "Milwaukee's Worst" 50th

Any idea why that car is wiggling so badly? Too light on the FDW or ?

Ran same times as my "stinger" in testing. Just doesn't like traffic. Odd car! It ran 2.9739 one run. That was the best time of the "stinger".

 

[kpendle]

Taking a fresh look at the devaition, I'd say that it should be about .005 for street stock. There are many cars that ran at the Nationals that also ran in August. I see many examples of cars running about .002 to .006 faster in Utah than they did in Wisconsin. Looking at Unlimited, it tightens up even more to about a .002 difference. I have heard there were a few people complaining the times were so slow at the Nationals. I accept your appology. Oh come on! It was funny!

Purple Bullet one of our SS cars ran.........

2.9836 avg at Nationals
2.9767 avg at MOTM round 1

.0069 faster

It came out of the box long enough to pull off the sticker and went to MOTM untouched other than that.

I purposely sent it in that way just to see what the difference would be. I would be curious if anyone else sent any cars that were unchanged.

On the other hand the other car we sent in, Fire, should have improved more and it was barely faster than nationals. I did too many modifications on it for one race and learned nothing other than to be more patient and not do too many things at once. Which was knowledge I already had and chose to ignore. Lesson learned, hopefully it will stick.

Ken

 

[Quicktimederby]

The one that I had that was untouched from nationals was .003 difference.

 

[GravityX]

I sent in a car that hasn't been re-prepped since April racing, the car ran .0062 faster this past weekend, than it did at Nationals.

MOTM Race - 2.9699
National's Race - 2.9761
April's Race - 2.9636

....and just because, it will not be seeing a re-prep or tune for the next race.