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No Traction
I am posting this so you guys can see its not so easy to run in the northeast in what seems to start out as an average - DA day, you can check dragtimes with the times on the slips and see the lowest -da around -400 produced the best times over the higher - da in the - 1400 range when the day started. a couple slips are missing, the last 4 was a series of 6 hot laps im positive missing slip 4 was the winner as it was the only run that hung the wheels and no time flashed and no slip, and number five was another smoke the tires
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An average -DA day in the northeast? A -DA day here in Phoenix is extremely rare and requires temperatures around freezing or below, which doesn't happen when the sun is up.
On the only -DA night this year (-200 at 31*) I hot lapped the last 4 of 11 passes to heat both the track and tires to create my own groove to get one good pass. It sounds like you did the same deal.
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Your times and speeds are admirable but your Reaction Time? What were you thinking? Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, Green.... Green.... Go!!!!! Could have used a calendar to get those times. 
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An average -DA day in the northeast? A -DA day here in Phoenix is extremely rare and requires temperatures around freezing or below, which doesn't happen when the sun is up.
On the only -DA night this year (-200 at 31*) I hot lapped the last 4 of 11 passes to heat both the track and tires to create my own groove to get one good pass. It sounds like you did the same deal.
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Glad to see that you could make it. You gave it your all. The weather was not helping. Cold track in the morning = no traction. Bad barometer and rising temps = no ET.
As for that last pass, lane choice is everything.
Dennis likes to dollar cost average his passes down.
As for that last pass, lane choice is everything.
Dennis likes to dollar cost average his passes down.
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Glad to see that you could make it. You gave it your all. The weather was not helping. Cold track in the morning = no traction. Bad barometer and rising temps = no ET.
As for that last pass, lane choice is everything.
Dennis likes to dollar cost average his passes down.
As for that last pass, lane choice is everything.
Dennis likes to dollar cost average his passes down.
with the missing slip and any Tommy didn't get its less then $10.00 a pass
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They should only know how many I did not get, cleaning the track, putting more water down, removing the battery charger & etc
Early on we started at 20 psi and worked our way down to 17 PSI for a good pass. Then the track conditions changed we had to go back up again to 20.5 psi and gradually work down to 18.5 psi for a good pass. It was like that all day for everyone.
If you consider that Dennis tired different launching techniques too.... it must have been about $ 5.50 a pass
Yup he would make any bean counter proud
.......where is Joe when we need him I usually put down some rubber for the faster guys but I was supposed to take video and did not bring a set of drag radials; so I became the pit crew. Even if I had tried to keep the lanes warm for the faster guys conditions were so bad I doubt it would have helped. :yesnod
I doubt that most of you have never seen a Corvette dance like Garys did near the big end on Friday. Gary gets the "Oh My God I kept it in my lane award" for some great driving after Rob took the right lane and Gary ended up in street tires only very cold left lane.
I realize that we do get some great DA days here in Jersey but it comes at a price, once again we all got to go home in one piece.
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Might not have been the numbers you were looking for Dennis but even with the traction issues you still got two new best ETs out of it.
You got some of that killer trap speed back that the new converter seemed to have stolen too which is nice.
It won't be easy at all but if you can just somehow find the track prep that you had in December (1.34 sixty foot) along with some more favorable barometer you might just see some 10.0s.
It's also a testament to the reliability of your 'fast street car' combination as well, ALL those passes inside of just a few hours like that and then you still got to drive it back home, I like that.
You got some of that killer trap speed back that the new converter seemed to have stolen too which is nice.
It won't be easy at all but if you can just somehow find the track prep that you had in December (1.34 sixty foot) along with some more favorable barometer you might just see some 10.0s.
It's also a testament to the reliability of your 'fast street car' combination as well, ALL those passes inside of just a few hours like that and then you still got to drive it back home, I like that.