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Old 10-12-2002, 04:09 PM
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Let see if I can set this thing up correctly
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If you have breakfast lunch and dinner <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_tounge.gif" /> on the starting line at least you have chance to win the race.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by redrumss:
<strong>If you have breakfast lunch and dinner <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_tounge.gif" /> on the starting line at least you have chance to win the race.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ya what REDRUM said. At least you have a chance if you cut a bad reaction time.

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Default Re: What's worse: Red-light or have lunch?

The counter doesn't even start until you cross the starting line, so only your reaction time will suffer.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by SSDriver:
<strong>The counter doesn't even start until you cross the starting line, so only your reaction time will suffer.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think the subject is about bracket racing or heads up racing and not time slipping. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" /> If the subject is time slipping it doesn't matter at all. The clock doesn't start till you break the beams.
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Default Re: What's worse: Red-light or have lunch?

Always better to be late than red... Neither will do you a lot of good trying to go rounds, though...
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Hey George I think you and I have both seen enough gifts in bracket racing to know it's always better to be GREEN than .499 red. <img border="0" alt="[Banging Head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> Case in point: super stock eliminator a few nhra races ago, after 7 rounds Harvey Emmons breaks right off the line with a 615 reaction time and an 11.05 dial, and his opponent goes 478 red chasing with a 9.78 dial. Humiliating to be pushed back into the winner's circle? Maybe, but he still got the wally and all the $$$.

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Default Re: What's worse: Red-light or have lunch?

Either way you should lose.

At least with a red light you showed that you tried. With a 'sleeper' light you are hoping that the other guy is as slow as you at the light, he will red light, or will brake-out.

But I'd still rather be a 'little' late than red. I have hole-shot a lot of 9 second cars in bracket racing

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