Everyone is cutting lights at the finals. Necessity or track? (1 Viewer)

[DanTheFan]

It was crunch time at the finals and it seems there was a lot of stepping up in performance and reaction times. Granted the conditions were there but lots of aggressive runs.
For TF, looks like about a third of the runs on Sunday had reaction times in the .040s. Another handful were solid .050s. Did Justin just make everyone better by necessity or do the track conditions lend themselves to better RTs as well? Or staging strategy?

 

[4onthefl4]

It was crunch time at the finals and it seems there was a lot of stepping up in performance and reaction times. Granted the conditions were there but lots of aggressive runs.
For TF, looks like about a third of the runs on Sunday had reaction times in the .040s. Another handful were solid .050s. Did Justin just make everyone better by necessity or do the track conditions lend themselves to better RTs as well? Or staging strategy?

All of the above.

 

[mick]

there were cool temps and a setting sun in las vegas, yet the performance numbers did not come up, nor have they come up in a few recent national events.
anyone care to take a guess why pomona racing surface may have been different?

 

[Rich D]

there were cool temps and a setting sun in las vegas, yet the performance numbers did not come up, nor have they come up in a few recent national events.
anyone care to take a guess why pomona racing surface may have been different?

Density altitude has something to do with it. For eg. Vegas Q4 was 66 degrees BUT DA was 3,296. In Pomona Q3 the temp was 61 with a DA of 1,583 feet. Yes they can "make" their own density with the blower, but it costs hp to spin that bad boy. Ambient atmospheric pressure is free