you better learn to play the topend .Beating a car to the strip and not lifting breakout by a thousandth will eat at you.If you drill the tree and he doesn't you'll be beat.
I've watch racers never look around and the other guys car died on the starting line then restart it and the dude broke out,he never looked back.Bracket racing is more than most think that it is.
Knowing how much et, mph you have then you scrub off just lifting its less with a faster car.
What about the other guy going through the traps first by a car you should lift not to take the chance of you breaking out.
don