Hopefully after this weekends double header I moved up to 1st in points, had a bad day Sun. but there was'nt many cars so the rounds were kept low as such the points. Anyways, Sat. night in the finals was probably the best race I've ever had this year. Pardon the terrible R/T but it went like this.
His Dail 13.39---- My dail 13.20
R/T .552---- .555
60' 1.967---- 1.794
330' 5.630---- 5.376
1/8 8.627---- 8.373
82.41mph---- 81.78mph
1000' 11.212---- 10.985
1/4mi 13.398---- 13.200
103.26mph---- 101.64mph

Worst part of the whole day, the ribbon for the ET booth printer got ate up somehow, so all slips had to be picked up in the tower-talk about a joke and huge lines, so I did'nt even know how it played out until my buddy came over to the shop about 2 hrs later for some cold ones, he picked up the hand written slips and I about died. That was a heck of a race, just glad the wind did'nt blow on that pass.

 

nice job IHI
and the r/t isn't terrible, good luck

 

It depends. If it's still the .500 perfect light then it's not bad. If it's a .000 perfect light then they both were asleep.

If all those numbers are correct, I'd say that was a fantastic race. I'd be glad to shake your hand if I lost that one because both racers were so close and the winner had to really fight for it.

I did some number crunching. The MOV was .005. That worked out to a win by only 9". I can see why you didn't know if you won or not.

 

I had a .0013 MOV @ 92 mph this past weekend. We were both feathering it at the end, afraid to break out (I had passed him, he figured he'd back off since he couldn't keep ahead of me, I backed off because I didn't want to take too much stripe, etc.). But, my win light came on as I was the last to get back in it (put me in the money, too).

Worst part was it was a buddy that I typically pit with. I'm running a fuel pump he sold me, even. But, that's racing.

I bulbed the next round against another guy I pit with...

 

Heck, we damn near hugged each other. We both knew it a damn close race and got lots of positives from the other racers for a heck of a run. That is the EXACT way I was wanting to run a final this year as most were won due to red eyes or carnage-got to "earn one" so to speak.

We're still running the .500 tree/lights at this IHRA track-our NHRA is the only one in state I know of running the .000
Street class here is usually not that competetive as the guys try to run within .02 of their dails, and since I started running the S-10 in Modified I've learned rather quickly you have to be .01 or on to win with a good light, so it's carried over into street and I've been very lucky this year. I've been fighting this 2 step all year trying to get good R/T off a button and it's been a season in the making with staging a pump in deeper and trying to react that much quicker to get into the .500-.530 which IMO are good enough to give you a shot at the win light. Then Sunday they had us going roundy round, I got the buy in street so I was last to run, Mod had already lined up and suited up while I was waiting to go down track in the car. Got back to pits, pulled the helmet and air gauge into the truck and rushed to staging where they were already running down track. Had to buckle my helmet as I pulled into the burnout box and TRY to gain some composure. Cut a great light-the one you know was good- and went to hit 2nd gear and the thing goes off the chip. 4th time this truck has done this to me, before the shifter just rattled to peices literally and missed the 2nd gear gate, this time? still have'nt tore into it yet as it was a long hot weekend. Anyways, while I was staged in the truck, street class already buckled in and ready to race. So... pull back to pit, jumps in the car and head up for street, did'nt have a chance to look at my weather station. Pull a .504 and broke out by .02, should've lifted sooner I guess. Anyways, I was very upset to say the least, but it was my own fault trying to race 2 cars 2 classes, but our track NEVER runs as profiecient as it did Sunday-so I'll blame it on them for having their sh.. together for once. So now I'm curious to see how points play out since the guy I'm fighting with won it Sun. Ought to be interesting, just gotta keep the head outta my butt the rest of the year, and now I am not racing the truck since we're still "tuning" everything and it's messing me up focus wise.
NOW I just hope my wife can get Thursday/Fri. off, since I really want to run Cordova this weekend, they're having the 50th World Series and HUGE payday in all classes-hell, sportsman pays back 32 spots this weekend Right now does'nt look good, and I really hate to spend 3 days alone with no "pit crew", got other friends gonna be down to watch/race, but it just ain't the same I guess. Have to wait and see, the allure of a chance at some real $$$ for once is teasing me-and I'll get a race in at the track our ET finals our being held so it'll be good practice if nothing else.

 

quick question what does MOV mean?

 

Margin Of Victory

 

ah okay thanx

 

It's a calculated number from the reaction time of both racers and how far they were off on their dial in. Usually anything 0.09xx and quicker is a very close race.

It just goes to show how much a good reaction time and how close to the dial in you need to run. You can still win if you're asleep at the tree but can run your number if your opponent's time falls off.

A few weeks ago I was asleep at the tree and run my number however I couldn't catch my opponent and lost by .020 or about 3 feet.

 

Here I'm told MOV is a direct reading from the finish line lights. When 1st car crosses, timer starts, when 2nd car crosses, timer stops. Goes to 4 decimal places, which RT and ET do not.

 

Since he didn't get a real timeslip, you can calculate the MOV from the RT and ET. It works out the same.