Fords Fords Fords: Old School / New School
WILL PRACTICE WITH THE VIDEO CAMERA....
BUT THE PLAN IS FOR A STILL OF THE REAR END OF EACH PAIR OF CARS WITH BOTH ELAPSED TIMES SHOWING ABOVE THEM... THE YOUNG GUNS CAN DO THE MATH ALONG WITH US, AS A "HOMEWORK PROJECT"...
GAVE THE CARS A QUICK LOOK... #12 AND #2 NEEDED WHEEL ALIGNMENT, #20 AND #1 HAD A J.B. WELD SMUDGE ON THE TIRE SURFACE... LIKE THEY ROLLED OVER A WET "J B HAIR" ON THE BENCH... CAREFULLY FILED THEM...LIKE #20 NEEDED ANY HELP...
#10 REALLY HAS BALLS... THE THING IS PACKED FULL OF 'EM...
TE'S #6 [WAY 2 FAST BASE] NO BUMPER, ROLLED STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW, NICE BUILD !
CAR ARE PLACED IN ORDER 1 TO 22, CASE ROTATED TO BETTER FIT PICTURE'S SIZE ;
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WHAT # = WHO ;
BRACKET A...
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WAITING FOR A WINNER ;
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BRACKET B ...
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WAITING FOR A WINNER ;
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looking at these pix a second time...
the bracket B, "waiting for a winner" trio are not the cars you would want to pull up beside you on Friday night !
How NOT to drive a Ford Mustang dragster...............http://www.flixxy.com/2000-horsepower-f ... akeoff.htm
Looks like the wheelie bar broke, it really sucks when that happens. And not to be a jerk, but it's not a dragster. It's a drag car
snafu... gridiron rented the racing room to a lady turning 90... I had to move into a much smaller room with shorter track...
starter, [1] angled section, transfer, [4] sections and the finish line..
then they told me I only had an hour as they rented that room... so I ran the same car [3] times in each lane, the difference was in the thousandths of a second...not much lane advantage...
I ran 1 pass each pairing in double eliminations as they were more predictable time wise...
also no time pix as the flash takes so long the timer switches over to 1 and 2 lane placements...tried 10 times...
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hope to have the place to myself next weekend... may race Friday if needed...
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.......race in round ;
#16 spanked #1...
#21 bounced #10...
#6 slammed #8...
#2 whooped #9...
#13 beats #17...
#12 trailered #7...
.......round [1] W;
#14 pulls past #19...
#4 slips by #15..
#16 whips #11...
#21 put a whooping on #3...
#6 nails #18...
#20 rips 4...
#5 outruns #13...
#22 out distanced #12
.....round [2] W ;
#14 over #19
#4 wins over #15...
#16 snips #11...
#21 over #3...
#6 takes #18...
#20 crushes #2...
#5 cripples #13...
#22 overtakes #12...
.....loser's bracket round [1];
#2 beats team mate #1...
#10 outlasts #13...
#8 slaps #12...
#9 nips #11...
#3 cranked #17...
#18 breezed by #7...
......round [2] L.
#2 over #15...
#19 whips #9...
#10 blasts #8...
#18 outruns #3...
......round [2] W ;
#16 clips #14...
#6 outdoes #21...
#20 blanks #4...
#5 creams #22...
........round [3] L;
#2 trimmed #14...
#10 belts #21...
#4 splashes #19
#22 passes #18...
......round [3] W;
#6 slammed #16...
#5 flushes #20...
.....round [4] L
#10 whoops #2...
#22 benches #4...
.....round [5] L;
#20 over #10...
#16 beats #22...
.....round [5] W;
#6 squeeks by #5...
.....round [6] L ;
#20 whips #16...
......round [7] ;
#5 over #20...
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finals #6 wins over #5...
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#20 over #16 for 3rd...will post the brackets later...
fastest pass of the day went to #19 = 1.015 seconds...
#5 and #6 tied, ...1.019 sec. to 1.019 sec. ...
after 3 seconds the timer rounded one of them down to 1.018... won by a ten thousanths of a second...
extremely nice work TE...
winner's bracket ;
loser's bracket ;
picture of times, too slow only got the places no times ;
Sweet! One second runs....fast stuff today.
I'll start crunching points..and post when they are complete
THE MACGIVER II STARTER, [1] 20" SECTION OF ANGLED DRAG TRACKS, TRANSFER, 6,7,8 MAYBE 9 SECTIONS OF RUNOUT ???, MICRO-WIZZARD TIMER...
1 TIMED RUN EACH LANE, AVERAGE THE TWO PASSES, HIGH AVERAGE MOVES ON...
THE MACGIVER II STARTER ;
MICRO- WIZZARD FINISH LINE, ADAPTED TO DRAG TRACKS ;
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