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If I recall...he had a 1.60ish 60 ft and trapped 120 but ran a 10.80???
He mentioned having belt slippage based on a lot of belt dust.
We all know that generally a 10 sec run requires a hellacious 60ft to get a 10 sec timeslip. If you only get a 1.60ish 60 ft, you're not gonna offset that with a mere 120 trap speed. Trapping 140 might help offset it, but not 120.
I've seen 10 sec cars do it with 5.13 gears which would limit the mph. Again...they get a hellacious 60ft though. I don't think '03 cobras use more than 3.55s.
I have seen rare occasions where the timers were just plain wrong. I lost a bracket race at BIR and couldn't figure out what happened. I sat on my trailer and reviewed the numbers and they didn't add up, so I went to the tower to voice my concern. Bob VanHouten (BIR's track manager at that time) said I had won and put me back in. The other driver laughed and said he realized the timers were screwed up and said he had hoped I would have just loaded up my stuff and headed home without looking at the numbers.
It also happened at RF. That experience was not as favorable to me. Al gave the other guy the win. The other racers that saw what happened said I got shafted due to the timers being wrong.
[QUOTE by Mr.Hp]
I know that he ran 10.90 something but then on the next run the car was only able to muster an 11.90. So tell me this, how in the hell can you run a second slower and change nothing? Answer, the clocks were off.
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But he claimed he backed the run up with a 10.90!!! You and I were there and saw him run a high 11 along side Larson who also ran a high 11. I was licking my chops thinking I would loved to have matched up with either one because they ran high 11s and their reaction times were horrible. I love racing people at the track with so called fast cars and horrible reaction times.
He mentioned having belt slippage based on a lot of belt dust.
We all know that generally a 10 sec run requires a hellacious 60ft to get a 10 sec timeslip. If you only get a 1.60ish 60 ft, you're not gonna offset that with a mere 120 trap speed. Trapping 140 might help offset it, but not 120.
I've seen 10 sec cars do it with 5.13 gears which would limit the mph. Again...they get a hellacious 60ft though. I don't think '03 cobras use more than 3.55s.
I have seen rare occasions where the timers were just plain wrong. I lost a bracket race at BIR and couldn't figure out what happened. I sat on my trailer and reviewed the numbers and they didn't add up, so I went to the tower to voice my concern. Bob VanHouten (BIR's track manager at that time) said I had won and put me back in. The other driver laughed and said he realized the timers were screwed up and said he had hoped I would have just loaded up my stuff and headed home without looking at the numbers.
It also happened at RF. That experience was not as favorable to me. Al gave the other guy the win. The other racers that saw what happened said I got shafted due to the timers being wrong.
[QUOTE by Mr.Hp]
I know that he ran 10.90 something but then on the next run the car was only able to muster an 11.90. So tell me this, how in the hell can you run a second slower and change nothing? Answer, the clocks were off.
[/quote]
But he claimed he backed the run up with a 10.90!!! You and I were there and saw him run a high 11 along side Larson who also ran a high 11. I was licking my chops thinking I would loved to have matched up with either one because they ran high 11s and their reaction times were horrible. I love racing people at the track with so called fast cars and horrible reaction times.
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