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Old 06-16-2010, 08:46 AM
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How much of a lead does 1/10th look like side by side on the track? One car length?
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I lost by .1 last race and it was about 7 feet.
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depends on the differences in velocities at that point in time.

this is LS1Tech... THis theoretical stuff is getting old. We may need a new board/site. Including a new board of DIRECTORS.
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generally its about 1 car per tenth.
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About a car length is what I was thinking. I was just kinda thinking about weight reduction on the car and times. Thanks for the responses

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dunno what a tenth looks like, i usually tighten it to .02 at the stripe when i'm bracket racing
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A tenth is much different between two 14 sec. cars and two 9 sec cars....
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Originally Posted by ryarbrough
A tenth is much different between two 14 sec. cars and two 9 sec cars....
Bingo. It's a simple math equation based on MPH of each car.
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Bingo. It's a simple math equation based on MPH of each car.
thank you. At least some of us here can think for ourselves.
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At 100 MPH it's abut one car length if they both have the same reaction time. At 200 MPH it's close to a car daylight.
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My fault guys....I was thinking bassically a stock ls1 vs the same car same stats and everything. So yea probly about 100 mph............
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At 100mph, you are moving 146.7feet per second. So a tenth of a second at 100mph is 14.67 feet. But at 200mph, that tenth is 29.34 feet!
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but that assumes a linear curve. Acceleration in a drag race is not linear.

It is still probably a close estimate.
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Has nothing to do with acceleration, it's about how much ground you are covering in a tenth of a second at a given MPH. They are talking at the finish line, right?
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Originally Posted by ryarbrough
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that assumes a linear curve. Acceleration in a drag race is not linear.

It is still probably a close estimate.
Acceleration within tenth of a second at a given speed isn't THAT different from a point estimate at that speed. It's the easy way to calculate, and in the realm of the OPs question, relatively accurate
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Originally Posted by ryarbrough
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that assumes a linear curve. Acceleration in a drag race is not linear.

It is still probably a close estimate.
At a point in time has nothing to do w/ acceleration. Acceleration is second order time squared. Velocity is in first order REAL TIME.
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Originally Posted by tee-boy
At a point in time has nothing to do w/ acceleration. Acceleration is second order time squared. Velocity is in first order REAL TIME.
this is the reason you can't "feel" acceleration. It really doesn't exist.
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Now we're getting theoretical in hurrrr.
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Now we're getting theoretical in hurrrr.
I disagree, just getting real.
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I disagree, just getting real.
It's getting funny.
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