Was it just me?

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium

Mike:

Believe this if you will, our videos were showing the car leaving the beams the same, usuall 5-6 frames and my reaction times were 6-8 frames and as you stated, that should equate to roughly be .000 - .030 in reaction times, not .050 - .070 lights. We have a new high-def camera and it is exactly the same frame time, video after video. After talking with a friend that is involved in electronics at NHRA and NMRA events he told me that it could be as simple as a lazy infrared or the infrared is turned down on sensitivity? What would be cool is for racers to have the ability to approach race control with accurate information and have these problems fixed before first round. I hope no one takes this as belly aching, bashing anyone, or anything else, just curious........

Bighead

That is why we need ICARD back on. With my software I could tell which lane was the problem with evidence. Now they can hide the problems because nobody knows any better.

[SC1317]

Doughboy! You Rock! Where's the Crown Royal!!!

[SSTRACER323]

At a bracket race 3 weeks ago at Rt 66
I went .029 red with .030 in the box and then went .386 60ft. 1.450@330
4.123@ 660 7.133@1000 and 10.886 @ 128.43

Went to the tower and was told the main system showed the same thing
Must have been a glitch.... Houston we have a Problem!!!!!!

I went up next round and had .045 in the box and went .023 red.
i put another .020 in the box for 1ST Round and went .009 red.
I talked to about 9 guys that all went red in the right lane 1st round and all had almost double the normal time in the box.

At the nationals and Div I was dead on the tree
went .00's in trials and then .038 first round with .045 in the box
Then took .015 out of the box and went .005 red second round to Marcus Bush... my fault on that one!

The Div lights where very consistent until the 2 round on Sunday... .098
I messed up big time rolled in to deep and then the car rocked forward and i thought i was going to deep stage and then just sat and watched Dunkin drill me .... Oh well Stanton here we come!!!!!!

Normally Rt 66 is very good with the tree..but it seems the last couple of races for the brackets it has been hit and miss for a lot of us.

[BOO BOO]

I had the same problems eveything made sense at the nats, I was hitting the tree in both cars, 60 foots were right on. But at the div race lites were ok 1st time run then right into the dumper. Rest of the lites in the upper 20's and 30's. With alot out of the box. Second round in S/G had a 70 lite lost 4 1/2 in 60 foots also, and the S/C car fell off a ton 2 round.
Boo Boo
31s/g
38s/c

[sc3912]

For me, the timing equipment seemed good for the national and divisional. Other than round one on sunday, when I ran slow. I didnt think I missed the prediction that badly, but I could have. On the first weekend the MWSC was at 66, I felt the timing system was messed up. Usually my 60 fts are within a hundreth but that day, I was off by 4 hundreths. From one time run to the next, I lost 3 mph at the finish line and my 660-1/4 was off by 6 hundreths when they usually at the worst, vary by around a hundreth or so. On that run, my 1/8 mph was good and I had a 4 hundreths quicker 60 ft. Granted there was a stiff wind that day, but the next weekend, we also had similar wind conditions and my runs were back to normal. I saw nothing on the data recorder that would suggest that a car problem was causing my inconsistancies. I have a guy who works for me that races bikes, and himself and several of the bike riders have gotten weird numbers too.

I can understand why you went red in the shootout Rock, you were intimidated.LOL
and I was dang lucky.

[CBS]

that was my only run with a light below 20.....something was definitely wrong.....

of course I was intimidated.....

but I don't think that had anything to do with my light.....I was 20 best...rolled 3 in and went 2 thou red....

explain that one...

[Jason Oldfield]

Originally Posted by CBS

but I don't think that had anything to do with my light.....I was 20 best...rolled 3 in and went 2 thou red....

explain that one...

You suck?

[SSTRACER323]

Went to Rt 66 last night and was told both lanes have new IR's
Everything went great last night ... need to see what happens in the day light