Perfect lights
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From: Marlboro country MA
Perfect lights
It's kind of like getting a hole-in-one: if you try long enough, one day you'll get one. I got my second ever perfect .000 light last weekend at New England Dragway in Epping, NH during time trials for Mod class bracket racing. Most of my lights were pretty good that day; just minutes earlier I won the bye position in the Street class with a .005 light, and in competition that afternoon I cut a .008 light in Mod in the second round. Win by the light - die by the light: my next run was my last with a -.002 light!
Last edited by MTVette; Jun 12, 2008 at 11:59 PM.
Race Director
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From: State of Confusion
.... getting a perfect-light IS like getting a hole-in-one, or making several consecutive shots in basketball:
there are days where you just can't miss, and other days when you can't scratch your backside if you were hand-cuffed, standing in a phone-booth.....
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From: Lithia FL
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CI VI Drag Champ!
Congrats on the perfect. I went several years with at least one perfect. It is hard though. Usually it happens when I am trying for it. I much racer score a but of zero teens then to live so close to perfect
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From: Melbourne Florida
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I've had two in competition so far this year...they scare the crap out of me...I hate them because if I get one it means I was way off my spot...they are the last thing I want...
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Granbury, TX
Our club gives out stickers for a "perfect reaction time" and "Dead on Dial". One of our electroincs racers, who typically has .00X reaction times, had a dead on dial and perfect reaction time on the same run! Talk about unbeatable! 
This will probably never happen to me in my lifetime.
This will probably never happen to me in my lifetime.
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From: In your head
I had a handful on a sportsman tree but only one on a pro tree. I was practicing r/t on a .400 pro tree at Atco and already had two .00X lights that evening. On the third run I hit a perfect light. I bet it was the change in lighting that pushed me from the .00Xs to .000. First two passes were made during late afternoon while the thrid pass was made when it was completely dark already.
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