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Re: 7.45 Dial for Bill O'Connor
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Incorrect dials don’t happen often, in my experience, but they do happen and it’s part of your job as a driver to verify it. My car doesn’t go in low gear after the burnout until the dial-in is up and correct.
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11-14-2021, 01:56 PM | #22 |
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Re: 7.45 Dial for Bill O'Connor
As an NHRA announcer and worked at Pomona for seven years until the new bunch took over and hired "whatevers," catch me in the pits sometime and I'll tell you what goes on. I can't write it here.
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Re: 7.45 Dial for Bill O'Connor
So maybe some insight here... The computer operator may have put in 7.45 instead of 17.45 and hit the key to advance the pair to the active state. THAT is the number that Live Timing and the NHRA timing screen sees. When the operator corrected the dial, that does not always push to Live Timing or the timing screen. It's a quirk / bug / ??? of the data capture programs that NHRA built and happens more often than you think. The important part is that the Compulink got and processed the corrected number. Now, if it should have been 17.45 or 17.05, that is a shoe polish issue.
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Re: 7.45 Dial for Bill O'Connor
Thanks Warren!
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12-02-2021, 01:41 AM | #25 |
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My time slip showed a 17.45 dial for the round 2 race. I don't know where the 7.45 came from. I broke out by a bunch but thats a whole other story.
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12-02-2021, 10:55 AM | #26 |
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Re: 7.45 Dial for Bill O'Connor
Started in the semis for us , Dial in board had a mind of its own. They assured us it was correct . Same thing in the final.
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12-02-2021, 01:32 PM | #27 |
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Re: 7.45 Dial for Bill O'Connor
Isn't your dial-in on the scoreboard at the end of the track also before the run?
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Yes, that was the issue. Finish line board/ boards were wrong.
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12-02-2021, 05:47 PM | #29 |
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Re: 7.45 Dial for Bill O'Connor
Oh, Got'cha!
I just assumed that there was also another board with your dial-in on it when you pulled into the water box you could glance up at in the center of the lanes to check your dial-in besides the scoreboard at the far end... |
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