No, not that inauguration...the new track in Orlando held their first ever Summit Super Series event yesterday...sunny and a little breezy and temps in the 50's..we froze our azzes off..go ahead and laugh but it is true...

Anyway, almost 70 cars showed up...I ran No Box and we had about 22 cars in my class...I footfeeded against the trans brake boyz...we got a late start since the track was too cold and slippery at first...the DA was about +200...

We made 3 time shots...I ran 7.76, 7.75 and 7.74...I had only got the car running properly last Sunday so my seat time has been nil...I decided to dial 7.73 in the first round...

I came up against a friend with a nice Plymouth Scamp...he was dialed 7.61...my light was a lousy .059 but he wasn't much better with a .051...we got to the finish line and he was coming on real good...he gave it a couple of whomps and it was very close...

Did I say "very close"?...talk about an understatement...I won and my MOV was....are y'all ready?....... .00007....Glen figured it out and that translates to a little less than 3/8th of an inch...holy guacamole!...here is the kicker...he gave me back the stripe by that tiny amount...I ran 7.77, btw...

Feeling awfully lucky, I dial 7.74 in round two...I come up against another friend with a little Vega...he dialed 7.71....it is a dirty tree but that never bothers me...I am late on the tree again with a .052...he hammers me with a .033 light...

We get near the finish line and I am a car length ahead....too much....
I give it one good whomp and then another...he sails by me and I get this churning feeling in my gut...he pulls up to the time slip shack ahead of me and I see them hand him the white slip...this means I get the dreaded yellow one and am the LOSER...damn!!!!...

It turns out I had the race won and gave him back the stripe by .007...this is what comes with no seat time in your car...since I just got the car running last weekend I had no confidence on it running the number...had I run out the back door I beat him all to death...oh well...

I did detect a small miss...the first plug wire I checked was black...sure sign of a header gasket leak...me and Glen will be changing those tomorrow...I am off to find gaskets...I race again next Saturday and the following week as well at Speedworld...then a week off and on down to Pink All Out in Palm Beach...

 

Still nothing as exciting (jmo) as a "door handle to door handle" race.
I drove around Dino not to long ago thru the 1/4, and we stared at eachother thru the stripe.
.007 was the difference on that one.
He beat me by about what? 3-4 inches?

Anyway as alway's, Good story Dan.

We'll be there with the same car as last time.
It's a White '67 stock height cowl hood, slapper bar, 28.5 x10" tire, single digit no adder Camaro seen in the TV episode from the old Moroso back in Feb.2007.
On that Jupiter, Fla. episode, It would be the one seen holeshotting a white notchback '67 Mustang, that then spinsout up top and hit's the wall. (nobody got hurt). The up top camera caught the Camaro ahead before the crash anyway. Just another Blue Oval car getting "blown away so to speak", by a Bowtie car....lol

Got so cold that day for Fla.(40's).With a rain delay start, hours of oildowns with slow cleanup etc.
By the time they picked the 16 All Out finalists, it was 10:45 pm. They went with a slower 11.0 field due to track conditions. If you saw that episode, the cars were slippin' on the big end as well as the little.
A few spinouts too.
Ended at 2:45am with a 4 way $ split etc.
Maybe run into you there? Good Luck!

 

Rick, the formula that I have always used, and Bob Brockmeyer of Compulink confirmed that this is how the 'Distance-of-Victory' is computed, is as-follows:
I'll use the data from Dan's run, where his opponents lost by .00007 while traveling 84.63 MPH

take 2nd car to the stripe, and multiply his shown MPH by 5280, to get 'feet/hour':
84.63 Miles (in an hour) x 5280 (feet-per-mile) = 446,846.4 feet-per-hour

446,846.4 x 12 (inches-per-foot) = 5,362,156.8 inches-per-hour

5,362,156.8 divided-by 60 (minutes-per-hour) = 89,369.28 inches-per-minute

89,369.28 divided-by 60 (seconds-per-minute) = 1,489.488 inches-per-second

1,489.488 divided-by 10 (move decimal point one place) = 148.9488 inches-per .1-second

148.9488 divided-by 10 = 14.89488 inches-per .01-second

14.89488 divided-by 10 = 1.489488 inches-per .001-second

1.489488 divided-by 10 = .1489488 inches-per .0001-second

.1489488 divided-by 10 = .01489488 inches-per .00001-second (four zeros and a one)

.01489488 times 7 (your M-o-V was by 7 times .00001, or .00007) = .1042636", or roughly 7/64", less-than 1/8"

for your information, the thickness of 1 dime and 1 nickle is just .114"

 

Hey Rick...I will look for a white 67...you know what my car looks like...see you then...I may cheat a little and go to the new track in Orlando the saturday night before Pinks...they have a guy who will arm drop you if you ask...he he he....

 

here are a few random pictures I posted on another Forum

 

Good to see your car is running consistent. Didn't make it to BMP last Saturday. We have a Corvette challenge on Friday and Saturday We have a no box race at PBIR. I will be staying real busy this weekend. Will be going to test and tune on Wednesday night that cold weather will be here...