Is Cecil County Dragway really faster than Maple Grove?

Have you ever watched how the water races towards the topend of the track when it rains there?

It doesn't take much downhill to make some good mph.

I've been to both many times over the years. Cecil is at a lower satic level than MG so a slight edge to Cecil there. This time of the year though I think the Grove can be faster. There are a ton of trees at the MG and the adjusted air there can be REAL good. I've never had traction issues there but have always run there during special events. Go the weekend after the Dutch and it should be good.

I'll have to see if I can find the video from when the Dakota R/T club had it's National event at Cecil. It started raining and the video clearly showed the water rushing to the stripe. That HAS to help somewhere on the timeslip. HOW MUCH it helps will be the point of contention.

Cecil looks like it is down hill to me

I think rather than have altitude correction factors - that the NHRA should simply grade the higher elevation track to make them down hill. How much down hill should be the "built-in" correction factor.

Your track always have bad air? Repave the track to make it down hill!

Cecil does have a slight downhill pitch to it.Fast as hell.

i run at both tracks. maple is a lot closer time wise. it to me seems cecil may be .1 faster. i do have my best times on my bike at cecil.

now compare numidia to cecil and i say .3 to different.

numidia about 1050ft
maple 540ish
cecil i think 200 ft or so

First off do you guys realize how much the track would need to be pitched down hill to make your car faster????

I ran my 10.oh truck at midnight at cecil and it went 10.007 134.97 next morning we ran the grove first pass of the trailer we went a 10.023 135.42
the 60 was a 1.42 at cecil and 1.44 at the grove.

Anybody else keep a log book? lets see the real numbers for comparison on some consistent cars.

Also Atco and maple grove have a tighter rollout. If I leave my cecil shims in my switch i'm red at both atco and the grove

Back in the late 90s when I was racing my 71 340 Duster (stock), I could run 14.0 all day at MG, but no 13.90s. I swore the car had 13.90s in it so I kept going back to MG week after week trying to get that 13.9 time slip but it would just never get any better than 14.0. So I drove it down to Cecil County one Friday night and ran 14.0 first pass and a 13.9something on the second pass. So is Cecil faster? Maybe, but not by much for me.

All I know for sure is what the video showed...
and that when we had the National meet in Tucson - there were a bunch of very long faces when their timeslips were a full second slower than at Cecil. (yeah, I know apples to oranges there)

All the internet bravado about who's ride was faster gets all mixed up when people are posting timeslips from different tracks times of year and obviously different DA and track prep. Everybody enjoys and down-plays having the "geographical" advantage of Sea Level tracks with mineshaft air. But put the group together in one spot and all that goes out the window.

Then all you hear is excuses. LOL

do a google earth on it,you will see if its up hill down hill or flat. we have 1 track up here in mi 1 meter higher at the big end and another track 1 meter lower.