Frank Hawely said years ago to be thinking about lifting your thumb off that trans brake button the whole time, that way that part is already done in your mind. lol

Get in your car in the garage and do the run mentally many times in your head to where like Locomotion said it becomes a routine. Because in drag racing you don't get much seat time compared to like round track racing.

I found staying to myself and thinking about the run before in the staging lanes helped me. That and I also ate cold fresh red grapes before every run, it definitely helped me, red grapes.