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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: fishy340]
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12/27/12 07:31 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=caYnaXk1XcI
boreing?
The total length of that video was 106 seconds. Only 4.90 seconds of which was action! Doing the math that is just under 5%. Baseball games, which are known for being as boring as mom, Chevrolet and apple pie have about 14 minutes of a broadcast time that is action. This works out to be about 11% of the total broadcast time, excluding commercials of course.
So to sum up that clip was twice as boring as a Major League Baseball game and that is saying a lot!!!!
Last edited by bwdst6; 12/27/12 07:33 PM.
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: fishy340]
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12/27/12 07:43 PM
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: bwdst6]
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12/28/12 01:54 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=caYnaXk1XcI
boreing?
The total length of that video was 106 seconds. Only 4.90 seconds of which was action! Doing the math that is just under 5%. Baseball games, which are known for being as boring as mom, Chevrolet and apple pie have about 14 minutes of a broadcast time that is action. This works out to be about 11% of the total broadcast time, excluding commercials of course.
So to sum up that clip was twice as boring as a Major League Baseball game and that is saying a lot!!!!
YES --- boring!!!! 1/4 mile or nothing for me 
If I can't run 1/4 mile I may just go back to street racing 
Russ
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: CHAPPER]
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12/28/12 01:10 PM
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We had a track in Heath , Ohio which is 15 minutes away from National Trail Raceway, which was a 1000 foot track and the shut down was a hill and you could coast to your pit area. It was called 'Hyde Park Drag Strip". If you like rowing 5&6 speeds we also have a 1 mile track here in Willmington, Ohio for your speed runs. 
I don't remember the track being 1000'. I thought it was 1/4 mile. Maybe that's why I liked that place so well. 
Hyde Park was 1000' until about 1965 and then they built a 1/4 mile track that went across the 1000' at an angle at that time. Track closed in about 1971. That was the first track that I raced on and that was 1967. Been racing Mopars ever since.
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: THE GLASS MAN]
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12/28/12 03:44 PM
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We had a track in Heath , Ohio which is 15 minutes away from National Trail Raceway, which was a 1000 foot track and the shut down was a hill and you could coast to your pit area. It was called 'Hyde Park Drag Strip". If you like rowing 5&6 speeds we also have a 1 mile track here in Willmington, Ohio for your speed runs.
I don't remember the track being 1000'. I thought it was 1/4 mile. Maybe that's why I liked that place so well.
Hyde Park was 1000' until about 1965 and then they built a 1/4 mile track that went across the 1000' at an angle at that time. Track closed in about 1971. That was the first track that I raced on and that was 1967. Been racing Mopars ever since.
I know Pacemakers was 1/4 mile at one time untill the cars got too fast and they didn't have the land to lengthen the track shut down and keep them out of the woods and the farmers corn field.  
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: VernMotor]
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12/28/12 03:50 PM
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Bill you sure know how to stir up trouble !  
You know me well, got to stir up a stink once in a while, can't let everybody else have all the fun.  besides, my posts seem to last a lot longer if I don't talk about my car.
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: fishy340]
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12/28/12 05:11 PM
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I think on a 14x32 tire car that runs mid 6s in the 1/8 it would be boreing.
I think it's fun in a pump gas na small block street car  .
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: justinp61]
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12/28/12 05:27 PM
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I am currently semi retired from racing.
If I couldn't race quarter mile the word "semi" could definately be removed from the equation
I like nothing about 1/8 mile racing, and it doesn't speed up events IMO either.
85-90 percent of car issues at the track I have seen over the years is coming out of the water box, at launch, or before 1/2 track anyway
69 Dart GTS A4 Silver All steel, flat factory hood, 3360race weight
418 BPE factory replacement headed stroker, 565 lift solid cam
Best so far, 10.40 @127 1/4
1.41 best 60 foot
6.60 at 103.90 1/8
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: justinp61]
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12/28/12 06:05 PM
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Newark,Ohio
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I didn't grow up racing the 1/4 mile, in fact I didn't make my first pass down a drag strip until I was in my 40s. The closest track to me that runs the 1/4 is Bowling Green and even they don't run it in their regular bracket program. I have ran the 1/4 several times and honestly once you pass the 1/8 it's boring until you have drive the stripe. In the 1/8 it all happens so fast there isn't much time to think about the stripe, even in a mid 6 second car. IMO guys that are GOOD 1/8 mile racers make VERY good 1/4 mile racers. The tree is the same but driving the stripe sure comes up in a hurry.
I don't understand all the hate for the 1/8, to me it's simple. If you don't like it sell your stuff and take up golf. But would you play 9 or 18?
I'm happy I have places to race, I read a lot of posts about tracks closing down. 
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'07, '10, '12 Mopar Nats runner-up Street.
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: OhioMopar]
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12/28/12 06:36 PM
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Hyde Park Drag Strip is where Bud Gentile's 63 chevy step side p/u ruled the place, stop, I am showing my age......
Must have been before he lost his mind. Didn't he pass on a few years ago?
I remember a reddish colored Cheevy pickup. Was that the one?
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Re: another track switches to 1/8 mile
[Re: dartman366]
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12/28/12 06:41 PM
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Quickly reading through this thread, you can see a very clear split between the type of people who enjoy one vs the other or both.
One thing I noticed, those guys who I would consider more serious racers, guys who race a lot, like both 1/8th and 1/4. Those guys on here who race a couple times a year, or who are in it for the "go fast" mentality, are the only ones saying its 1/4 or nothing. Yes I understand there are exceptions to this...
You can probably guess which side I fall on.
-Dustin
67 Dart, 9 second, 392" G3 Hemi
68 Barracuda 340 F/SA
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