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Almost ready to go, Hotel reservations confirmed, Now...Can anyone help explain rules as pertaining to 99L. Never used a pro tree, 2 sec breakout allowed?, delay box permitted ( What exactly is this?)
Looks like many from this board wil be there,looking forward to meeting everyone!
Thanks, Jim
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99 lightning
red,snuglid
13.61 best with chip
bassini
#251
build date 4/14/99
Looks like many from this board wil be there,looking forward to meeting everyone!
Thanks, Jim
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99 lightning
red,snuglid
13.61 best with chip
bassini
#251
build date 4/14/99
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Jim,
Pro tree is where, after prestaging (rolling into the first beam and setting the small top yellow light) and then staging (rolling into the second beam and setting the small yellow light below the top one), the starter will genereally give a 2 or 3 count (after both lanes have completed staging) and start the tree. All 3 of the large yellow lights will come on simultaneously for.4 second and then the green comes on. Somewhere in between you see the lights come on and hammer the throttle to make a good leave. If the bottom light, the red one comes on, you left a bit too soon. This is ok, you have to crowd the tree to get your timing down so you can cut a good light and get the track quickly.
The 2 second breakout is a cushion that they allow in bracket racing that let's you run just a bit faster that your dialed in time (usually set as an average or the best of your qualifying or timing runs). This is done to help keep things reasonbly fair as weather conditions change and you may pick up a .10 or 2. This also discourages sandbagging by allowing folks to run as hard as they can (in theory, I still see people sandbagging all the time.).
The delay box I'm not sure of, they didn't have those 22 years ago when I waas last current on all the lingo. IT may be like a trans-brake or a staged throttle feed (just guessing here).
Hope some of this helps, please don't be offended if I went into too much detail, your level of experience is unknown and I want to be thorough.
The Wyldman
Pro tree is where, after prestaging (rolling into the first beam and setting the small top yellow light) and then staging (rolling into the second beam and setting the small yellow light below the top one), the starter will genereally give a 2 or 3 count (after both lanes have completed staging) and start the tree. All 3 of the large yellow lights will come on simultaneously for.4 second and then the green comes on. Somewhere in between you see the lights come on and hammer the throttle to make a good leave. If the bottom light, the red one comes on, you left a bit too soon. This is ok, you have to crowd the tree to get your timing down so you can cut a good light and get the track quickly.
The 2 second breakout is a cushion that they allow in bracket racing that let's you run just a bit faster that your dialed in time (usually set as an average or the best of your qualifying or timing runs). This is done to help keep things reasonbly fair as weather conditions change and you may pick up a .10 or 2. This also discourages sandbagging by allowing folks to run as hard as they can (in theory, I still see people sandbagging all the time.).
The delay box I'm not sure of, they didn't have those 22 years ago when I waas last current on all the lingo. IT may be like a trans-brake or a staged throttle feed (just guessing here).
Hope some of this helps, please don't be offended if I went into too much detail, your level of experience is unknown and I want to be thorough.
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Thanks wyldman, just what I needed to know.
Most of my experience was when we used to turn the dist. until the starter bucked, backed off a little, Flag by starter, no computer, no lights! Complicated now!
Appreciate the help. Jim
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99 lightning
red,snuglid
13.61 best with chip
bassini
#251
build date 4/14/99
Most of my experience was when we used to turn the dist. until the starter bucked, backed off a little, Flag by starter, no computer, no lights! Complicated now!
Appreciate the help. Jim
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99 lightning
red,snuglid
13.61 best with chip
bassini
#251
build date 4/14/99