Whats the best way? Never been... im going to be using street tires, so i wont burnout mearly clean em off with a quick spin. Do it in the water? How exactly does staging work? Launch on the last yellow correct?TIA

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With street tires stay out of the water. You will see most of the street cars going around the water.
If you have some time before you go pump up the front tires to max pressure. Then find a nice slick level street (or driveway works)
and do some peel outs from a dead stop with different psi's in your rear tires and then check the marks for the best pattern.
If not go with about 20+ psi in the rears.

When you stage you just want to idle up real slow and keep an eye on the tree. When your tires break the first light the top green goes on. At this time you are pre-staged (means nothing) Now after the first green goes on, some people like to just nudge up a fraction of an inch so they just barely break the second light, it will flicker a little first before lighting up. Called a short stage. I like to bump a little closer to the starting line and I nudge a couple of inches more just until the first light goes out. That is called deep staging. My reaction times were better this way.

Take off on the last light or a hair after the second one. You'll look much better to red light then to fall asleep on the line.
"If you ain't moving when the light goes green YOU LOSE"
Shoot for a .600 (which is measures from the last yellow) where .500 is a perfect launch.

Then its real simple just get a perfect reaction and run your dial in time and you will never lose.

 

If you're bracket racing, deep staging will help your reaction times for the purpose of being consistent. But if you are ET racing, and trying to get the absolute BEST time you can, then stage as shallow as possible. Deep staging costs you time on the clock, due to the fact that when you stage shallow, you get a little extra rolling start before the clock starts timing.

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