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After a dream season in 2004, it's back to reality so far this year. 2 races, 2 rounds won.
First race was April 22nd, an ET series "Street ET" race (I finished the season in 6th place out of around 80 racers in that series at Bandimere last year). It was only around 50 degrees, pretty chilly, and traction was poor (even for me). The car was running 13.8's in those conditions. I won the first round fairly handily, even with a relatively poor (but better than his) light. 2nd round I was up against a 16.6 second 2nd gen Firebird, who put a .015 light on me to my (better than 1st round) .062 light. Night over.
Yesterday I went out to a non-points "Street Machine Showdown" event, a sponsored race & show. They ran pretty typical bracket formats, including the Street Eliminator in which I ran - DOT tires required, no electronics allowed. The day was nice but there was a 15-25 MPH headwind all day, slowing the car down to mid-14.0's. 1st round I was paired with a 16.3 dial '91 Camaro, whose .105 RT was only .104 second worse than mine - needless to say, I wasn't trying that hard, too keyed up, I guess. 2nd round I'm up against a '62 Impala 409 dialing 13.60 - he catches up to me at the traps, backs out, I back out, we both get back in and he lead me across by .0035 sec. on .03-second over runs. Our RT's were .033/.034. Had I stayed in it, based on previous runs I would have run right on my dial - Rats!
Next raceday (or, next redemption day) is this coming Friday.
First race was April 22nd, an ET series "Street ET" race (I finished the season in 6th place out of around 80 racers in that series at Bandimere last year). It was only around 50 degrees, pretty chilly, and traction was poor (even for me). The car was running 13.8's in those conditions. I won the first round fairly handily, even with a relatively poor (but better than his) light. 2nd round I was up against a 16.6 second 2nd gen Firebird, who put a .015 light on me to my (better than 1st round) .062 light. Night over.
Yesterday I went out to a non-points "Street Machine Showdown" event, a sponsored race & show. They ran pretty typical bracket formats, including the Street Eliminator in which I ran - DOT tires required, no electronics allowed. The day was nice but there was a 15-25 MPH headwind all day, slowing the car down to mid-14.0's. 1st round I was paired with a 16.3 dial '91 Camaro, whose .105 RT was only .104 second worse than mine - needless to say, I wasn't trying that hard, too keyed up, I guess. 2nd round I'm up against a '62 Impala 409 dialing 13.60 - he catches up to me at the traps, backs out, I back out, we both get back in and he lead me across by .0035 sec. on .03-second over runs. Our RT's were .033/.034. Had I stayed in it, based on previous runs I would have run right on my dial - Rats!
Next raceday (or, next redemption day) is this coming Friday.
