video with slo-mo & finish line freeze frame Bristol Pro Stock Final

[john]

Close NHRA Pro Stock Finish At Bristol | rpm2night.com

Above is the link to Sunday's Pro Stock final at Bristol. It was so good I had to put it up by itself with slo-mo and freeze frame at the finish line.

 

[Jeff]

Thanks John. It's too bad the freeze frame is a foot past the finish line ... but we get the point, it was all but a tie!

 

[john]

the problem with cars going 200+ mph and video is that with a 30-frames per second rate, you don't get every inch of the cars movement in a frame. that was the best freeze frame i could do, considering the technology.

the only way to get a 100 percent perfect finish line video is to place one of those ultra-mo cameras pointing across the finish line.

 

[none]

They somehow managed to get the finish line on the yahoo thread link.......

 

[clock guy]

Johns was from the panning camera, the one on Yahoo and Complus is from the fixed camera at the finish line

 

[none]

Johns was from the panning camera, the one on Yahoo and Complus is from the fixed camera at the finish line

Very interesting and thank you for the heads up.

 

[DrRocket]

Can you just imagine the "discussion" that would have ensued in pre-Chrondek days???

 

[rckymtn3]

Can you just imagine the "discussion" that would have ensued in pre-Chrodek days???

Calling all historians!
maybe someone here is in the know on this history subject....I understood the finish of a drag race to be determined by a timing light from literally the beginning....the flag start was the starting system that was replaced by the xmas tree in '63 ? I say timing lights, but perhaps they were pneumatic hoses like the gas stations used to use to alert the owners someone had pulled in....

Mind you, I am sure the systems were a bit cruder, and perhaps didn't record to the 1/10,000th place, but they were there....is that correct? Or is that wrong?

 

[.]

Can you just imagine the "discussion" that would have ensued in pre-Chrondek days???

Which came first, the Fosdick or Chrondek timing system?