I have been around this sport longer than most of you have been alive. To have ANY two NITRO cars come out of the box and run the same ET to a THOUSANDTH of a second is unusual. To have all THREE of "The Dons" run the exact same ET, 3.804, is amazing. After reading it on DRC, I printed it out to show to my friend that used to race fuel altereds against me at LIONS, OCIR etc. He thought that I had made a mistake. I don't think I ever remember anything like happening before. You can try to tune to for the conditions to a HUNDREDTH, but not to a THOUSANDTH. Congrats to DSR for an "out of the box" magic moment. Dixon and Worsham were only four thousandth apart on thier first pass. I hope the weather lets them all get in at least one more pass to get the tune-up right. Nitro junkies are in for one Hell of a season I think.
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Tim5636sc
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Exactly Bob.... Amazing, Amazing, Amazing is all I can say.
vegasnitro
Nitro Member
It is rather unusual, I am going to say it is one of those mathematical anomolies that the sport presents us every now and then. However, that doesn't make it any less impressive. Well Done DSR!
Treeshaker
Nitro Member
My sources have told me that these teams use traction control devices during testing to plot clutch curves. Seems one of the cars/teams "forgot" to take it off for a national event last year and was caught using it. Penalty was severe but kept very quiet.
But, no matter by what means, it is one heck of a job by the teams and drivers, and is a testament to the consistancy of the DSR equipment and crews from car to car.
A certain FC driver was caught using one in the 90's, and yes it was kept very quiet!
I cant' believe this. it's just magic exactly as stated. No funny business. pro-stocks run the same e.t's to the thousands all the time, so have tf/ps/psb, just because it all happens to be all from one team your quick to pull out the watergate of drag racing 2011. This has happend before even in the nitro classes and yesterday happend probably to exactly due to what virgil has said.
DSR has the best of eveything including the engine department talent and they share notes, basic tune up, i am sure each crew chief puts there own little tweak on it.
so figure they were all shooting for 79-81 and they all know how to get that number and i'm sure some under tuned and some over tuned and it just so happens that, golly, all the same. check the speeds. it's all different talent that let to the same bag of performance
DSR has the best of eveything including the engine department talent and they share notes, basic tune up, i am sure each crew chief puts there own little tweak on it.
so figure they were all shooting for 79-81 and they all know how to get that number and i'm sure some under tuned and some over tuned and it just so happens that, golly, all the same. check the speeds. it's all different talent that let to the same bag of performance
Tim5636sc
Nitro Member
AutoImagery – Look @ Drag Racing | DSR’s Cool Tool
Maybe this little cool new tool DSR is using might be providing some tuning assistance....
Maybe this little cool new tool DSR is using might be providing some tuning assistance....
Rollout96
Nitro Member
WOW!!! Talk about trying EVERYTHING.
If the other teams start building those they could race them at night in "The Zoo".
my friends call me Zappy
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Just Paul
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If the other teams start building those they could race them at night in "The Zoo".
Hell yeah.. They could have their own class at the rickshaw track.
vegasnitro
Nitro Member
That is a pretty cool tool ... but I am not sure how much the data from Wednesday will be usable. The track temps will vary quite a bit throughout the weekend, thusly changing the measured ascension. I guess they have a conversion table, if there is X amount of ascension at temperature Y ... then as temperature increases/decreases, the ascension increases/decreases proportionally.
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Nitro Member
That's pretty cool.
I wonder how long until somebody has NASA do a LIDAR scan of all the track surfaces?
Bross Hawg
Nitro Member
It does good to mention/remind everyone to do a google search on traction control devises. After reading the information available, good luck finding it on a car!!!
Treeshaker
Nitro Member
Of special note also is the fact that Spencer and Tony ran the left lane and Antron was in the right. The runs by Del and Larry were also pretty good and they were in the right lane. I guess we should give NHRA some credit for creating fairly equal lanes to start the season.
Huge
Nitro Member
A very good point Virgil. Both lanes looked good. The track was stout and cold enough, that it destroyed a new set of tires in 1 run.
