You seem to be assuming that there is a strictly linear relationship between ET's and trap speed. This isn't so.

 

It would seem some what logical that the two should tie in some manor, but they don't seem to at all. Looking back at the three time slips from my runs last summer. My first run with with 27 year old son as a passanger was 14.707 at 96.474 MPH (he had to tell me where the track ended!!). The corvette next to me had an ET of 14.159 with a 107.564 MPH. The last run the car next to me ran a 13.866 at 110.936 MPH. That would tell me that based on the prior posts this car had some horses but the driver was still having problems getting the horses to the ground. Some of the times that I saw posted on the forum as mentioned earlier were in the 13's with 97-98 MPH. I just would have expected a car that was running in the 13's to be running at over 100 MPH.

Although this logic is flawed. my old 85 L98 would seem to have the power based on MPH but the driver isn't worth s**t (true) on the track! I believe the cars that were running 13's were LT1's which should have had more power than my old 85 and therefore should have had higher MPH thru the 1/4.

Well, what ever the case, it will be fun to see what the old 85 will do at the Sacramento track the first of June after the few modifications in the last year.

 

They are absolutely linked, but you aren't accelerating very quickly over that last 50' of track, so whether or not you took an extra few tenths of a second, it doesn't affect mph much.


At 100 mph, you don't speed up much in a tenth of a second.