03-16-2003, 08:33 PM
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Getting started
Anyone want to comment on how to catch a lead off the line?
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04-10-2003, 10:00 PM
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Hey fella! wattaya thinkin', just stomp on the gas and drop da clutch, badabing! badaboom!
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04-10-2003, 11:43 PM
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Go before it's green. If you time you launches with the last yellow light you should pull a pretty good tree.
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04-11-2003, 08:37 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Supra650RSP
Go before it's green. If you time you launches with the last yellow light you should pull a pretty good tree.
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isn't that cheating?
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04-11-2003, 07:59 PM
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nope.
you generally take about a 1/2 second to react to the impulse to go.
there's a 1/2 second b/n the last yellow and the green...
go on yellow, it takes you 1/2 second to react, you leave the line on the green.
if you're too fast, you'll red light...
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04-11-2003, 08:05 PM
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Oh, I get it, then you're kinda anticipating the green ligh. 
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04-12-2003, 11:00 AM
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exactly.
that's why they give you a reaction time on your time slip at the track.
it only matters in heads up racing, where you physically have to beat the other guy down the track.
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05-12-2003, 11:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by kaoru-tochiro
Oh, I get it, then you're kinda anticipating the green ligh.
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Go as soon as you see the last yellow start to flicker on.
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05-24-2003, 05:20 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by flylwsi
exactly.
that's why they give you a reaction time on your time slip at the track.
it only matters in heads up racing, where you physically have to beat the other guy down the track.
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Actually, in bracket racing the reaction time usually decides more races than the actual E.T. since anything over a perfect light (usually .500) is, in essence, added to your time.
Where you leave on the third yellow light can vary depending on how deep you stage. Stage the same and then work on the timing of the lights.
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08-26-2003, 02:08 AM
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I got your v-8 swingin!!!
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08-26-2003, 09:36 AM
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Re: Getting started
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Originally Posted by SVTBlackLight01
Actually, in bracket racing the reaction time usually decides more races than the actual E.T. since anything over a perfect light (usually .500) is, in essence, added to your time.
Where you leave on the third yellow light can vary depending on how deep you stage. Stage the same and then work on the timing of the lights.
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Actually it is the overall package in bracket racing but I'm sure you knew that. Try to shallow stage, it's more consistent. For evey inch deeper you stage the r/t gets faster by .008 but the et slows by double that .016. That is why most cars that deep stage (turn out the top staged light) usually run .10 slower than if they shallow stage. There are approximately 6 inches of rollout between a shallow and deep stage.
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08-27-2003, 12:27 AM
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Re: Getting started
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Originally Posted by Hypsi87
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