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Originally Posted by bricki
Hey guys i do practice and am pretty good on the tree but iam very good when i leave first when i am the slower of the two cars its sitting
for up to 2 seconds waiting for my side of the tree to start that gets me
catches me not ready we don't have cross talk etc .
might have to start bagging dial same time as other guy if its slower than me leave together get ahead and back into him sounds easy do many of you guys do this with any success.
cheers
PS i run 9.2 at 145mph the cars that i am having to wait for are 10.6
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don't dial the same, let him leave last, if he is top bulbing, he may have same issue.
OK, more info, i know exactly what you mean. early in the season we have some gamblers racing. they block tree and don't use cross talk (to even things out for foot brake vs delay). i agree, after leaving first or with cross talk, or even during time trials you get used to about a second from both staged to before your top bulb comes on. if it doesn't then it will affect your reactions. i found leaving first every time gave me a huge advantage. my lights stayed same as time trials, opponents (top bulbers) were missing tree badly. i used a t-stop and dialed a pre-determined slow time. going into the finals i had the bye run. watched the two cars race, one was a 7 sec dragster the other a 11 sec car. the 11 sec car won. i took the other lane for my bye (in case i lost the choice to him) slowed my car to a 13 sec pass. in the finals he was way late, mainly because he had been the slower car all day, till then!
p.s. to those top bulbers responding without running on a tree like this, you have no idea what he is talking about. remember this is why we had crossover, and now have cross talk...