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Working on my finish line technique
#701906
05/18/10 09:25 PM
05/18/10 09:25 PM
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Montgomery, PA
dodge340dart
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I have been playing with my GoPro camera to help me tighten up my finish line margin. In this video, the Road Runner red lighted with a -.014 and I had a .009RT. I ran an 11.461 on an 11.45 dial and the big RR ran a few off on an 10.45 dial. Who got the stripe even though it didn't matter and by how much. In round two I had a .0084 margin of victory and round three I had a .0091 margin of victory. I got the red eye in round four. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kenVCkie8yw
2011 & 2012 Beaver Springs Dragway Outlaw Street Champion
2012 BSD Friday Street Racer Driver of the Year
3-time Jr. Stock Eliminator
2-time Mean Street Eliminator
'69 340 Dart 1.500 60ft, 11.359et, 117.08mph
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Re: Working on my finish line technique
[Re: dodge340dart]
#701909
05/18/10 10:19 PM
05/18/10 10:19 PM
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Romeo MI
MR_P_BODY
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Put a stripe taker on the windshield... line your car and another at the starting line(both in final stage) and with you in your normal seating position the tape (stripe taker) should be in line with the front of his car...if the other car is behind that tape you should have the win... not counting break outs...sure some cars have a longer front end and if you want set the tape a bit farther out... or just remember what you are racing 
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Re: Working on my finish line technique
[Re: Quicktree]
#701913
05/19/10 07:14 PM
05/19/10 07:14 PM
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JD Dart
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I know how you feel this last weekend I past him and backed out of it so I wouldn't take too much stripe and he came back on me loss by .001 he had .000 light and I had .004 his dial 9.02 ran 9.04 mine 8.88 ran 8.897.
Should we every lift????
best so far 8.53 @ 158.59 MPH 60'1.240
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Re: Working on my finish line technique
[Re: JD Dart]
#701915
05/19/10 07:21 PM
05/19/10 07:21 PM
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Quicktree
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I know how you feel this last weekend I past him and backed out of it so I wouldn't take too much stripe and he came back on me loss by .001 he had .000 light and I had .004 his dial 9.02 ran 9.04 mine 8.88 ran 8.897.
Should we every lift????
yes, but you have to trust the car sometimes. I don't know mine well enough to trust it yet. but it wont take but a few losses to learn 
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Re: Working on my finish line technique
[Re: VernMotor]
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05/19/10 09:01 PM
05/19/10 09:01 PM
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ky
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Quote:
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Put a stripe taker on the windshield... line your car
and another at the starting line(both in final stage)
and with you in your normal seating position the tape
(stripe taker) should be in line with the front of his
car...if the other car is behind that tape you should
have the win... not counting break outs...sure some
cars have a longer front end and if you want set the
tape a bit farther out... or just remember what you
are racing
Problem when the car is 15 mph faster than you he goes by to fast ever look at something like that..Trust me I know LOL
Here is the et slip from the last race I lost..I thought I took him across by a fender..and I went and talk to him ..he said the same thing..Tell me what you think ?
me him
dail 11.25 10.02
RT .011 .022
et 11.20 10.03
mph 119.45 134.47
left first mov.0827
right mov .0717
Be honest I not sure how to do the math on this to tell me How far ahead I was...looks like more than a fender ??
can you give all the increments i will see if we can help you?
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Re: Working on my finish line technique
[Re: VernMotor]
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05/19/10 09:45 PM
05/19/10 09:45 PM
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Phoenix, AZ
MoparBilly
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Vern,
You got there 14'3" before he did...just a bit too much!!
"Livin' in a powder keg and givin' off sparks"
4 Street cars, 5 Race engines
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Re: Working on my finish line technique
[Re: MoparBilly]
#701922
05/19/10 09:48 PM
05/19/10 09:48 PM
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Romeo MI
MR_P_BODY
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Vern,
You got there 14'3" before he did...just a bit too much!!
On a 5 hundredths break out pass
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Re: Working on my finish line technique
[Re: VernMotor]
#701923
05/19/10 10:06 PM
05/19/10 10:06 PM
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Illinois
gearhead01
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Vern:
There was a three part series recently in the National Dragster on bracket racing math. It was spread out over several months, so I had to go back and find all of the issues. It is by Luke Bogacki and the column is called The Driving Force.
There is also information on ThisIsBracketRacing.com
John
1971 Satellite Sebring Plus - 14.46 @ 95.43
1977 Road Runner - N/B 11.02@ 119 Drag Radials
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Re: Working on my finish line technique
[Re: MoparBilly]
#701925
05/19/10 10:22 PM
05/19/10 10:22 PM
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ky
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Vern,
You got there 14'3" before he did...just a bit too much!!
 yep my math came up with 14 even. with a 15 mph difference he should have been at your back bumper at the mph stripe to be able to take the stripe
if you had of run dead on your dial you would have still beat him there by 4 foot
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in days past those would have been automatic wins. nothing will solve the top end but more seat time. the last one I lost was by .001
