spinning tires = crappy r/t?

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Old 10-01-2006, 01:05 AM
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Default spinning tires = crappy r/t?

last night i went to this really, really crappy track for the first time. in fact this track is so crappy there is about a .2 difference in E/T between the left and right lanes. lol, no joke. in the left lane my tires would spin so bad outta the hole that i lost about .2, even .3 a couple of times, on my E/T. anyway, the best light i cut the whole night was a .125 and i'm usually sub-.1. is it all psychological or could it have been that i was spinning so bad i wasn't tripping the beams as well as i could if i had traction.
Old 10-01-2006, 01:44 AM
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if you spin, the your not going to go anywhere. If you get wheel spin then your launch will suck and most likely your whole run.
Old 10-01-2006, 02:37 AM
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yes it can hurt your reaction time. reason being u have to come out of the beam to trip the r/t timer=).
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Yep, if the inital hit is spinning that will affect how quickly you break through the beams, thus hurting your reaction time.

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Old 11-18-2006, 10:39 PM
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yeh elgin was a crapy track here is some advice if you have a real nice fbody i suggest not to go there cause you also have to take a dirt road to get there
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yeh elgin is a very crapy track so i would not go there




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