Electronic Time Slips

[63corvette]

Originally Posted by Stan Weiss

They did not have very much information.


Stan

I also still have a number of these from Amarillo Dragway, Amarillo TX from the late 1960's. They look a lot like the one you posted except for the sponsor of the race info.
Rick Cates
Canyon, TX

[63corvette]

[QUOTE=Jeff Stout;616488]

Originally Posted by 63corvette

I believe it shows 4 digits over. I'm just staing it is .02 difference from track time slip. We feel because of no rollout on dragy. You move it starts timing. That would be equal 2 both cars being .02 off actual.

The 4 digits is only on the who crossed first and 3 digits on your and their ET.
What you posted looked to me to be for your ET only to the 2nd digit and not down to the 3rd digit.
Without the reaction time included in it how would you ever decide who won?
When I started racing in the 60's the tech person at the finish line picked the winner and hand wrote the ET cards declaring the winner and pulled the ET and MPH from a readout to put on the card. I believe the system used then was called a Crondex or something like that. I remember it doing a lot of clicking when I was near it.
I still have the winning cards for all my class win trophy's long before they were Wally's.
I really am getting old.
Rick Cates
Canyon, TX

[Dave Gantz]

Mike Smith had a theory that reaction times made drivers who were slower on the tree quicker. The r/t's showed the improvement needed.

[Jeff Stout]

[QUOTE=63corvette;616504]

Originally Posted by Jeff Stout

The 4 digits is only on the who crossed first and 3 digits on your and their ET.
What you posted looked to me to be for your ET only to the 2nd digit and not down to the 3rd digit.
Without the reaction time included in it how would you ever decide who won?
When I started racing in the 60's the tech person at the finish line picked the winner and hand wrote the ET cards declaring the winner and pulled the ET and MPH from a readout to put on the card. I believe the system used then was called a Crondex or something like that. I remember it doing a lot of clicking when I was near it.
I still have the winning cards for all my class win trophy's long before they were Wally's.
I really am getting old.
Rick Cates
Canyon, TX

Your correct. I looked at my dragy log and only 2 digits to the right of decimal. I guess the point i was making is the future is around the corner for no time slip booth. Or clocks needed. Never needed to know reaction time to determine winner. Who crosses first and dont break out or least amount to break out of the 2 would decide

[Larry Hill]

Ron for those of us with app-less flip phones each reaction time will be displayed on the scoreboard on the journey to the finish line. Fair is fair.

Anybody want to buy a Gameboy....cheep?

[NHRA1926]

And you don't think someone will figure out how to cheat during the actual run, in live time, while racing down the track? Does this not concern anyone? Absolutely NOT a fan of anything like this!

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by NHRA1926

And you don't think someone will figure out how to cheat during the actual run, in live time, while racing down the track? Does this not concern anyone? Absolutely NOT a fan of anything like this!

Yep, my point exactly

[340Cuda]

This is what one of the Tulsa "time slips" looked like. I feel it works well.

There is a provision to filter by car number so it is easy to find your time slip.

[Jim Wahl]

Originally Posted by 340Cuda

This is what one of the Tulsa "time slips" looked like. I feel it works well.

There is a provision to filter by car number so it is easy to find your time slip.

The same thing is used at Orlando Speed World. Jim


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[MRE 7171]

Hey Jeff or Stan, how about a sensor that you could plumb into say your fuel line and get a wireless signal to your cell phone and not have to download a computer from your car or have any wires hooked up to drain your battery, is that possible or is it already being done? Fred