Quote Originally Posted by 34_40 View Post
Hopin' to hear that you had a good day at the races! Fingers crossed.... 8-)
OH YES!!
It turned out to be great day despite the strong side wind and early rain which dried off by 11am. First pass was ok but blew the tyres off in all 3 gears while struggling to stay straight. 10.6 seconds Second pass I launched at 3/4 pedal for the first 100 feet so i didnt activate the nitrous. When the pedal hit the floor it hooked reasonably well but was wandering quite a bit, 10.4 seconds on that pass Then I had an idea to programme in a 1 second delay on the nitrous so I could launch hard on boost only and thenhave the nitrous ramp in as usual once rolling around 45mph. Bad idea !!!
Especially as I dont have my nitrous set to reset the boost ramp when throttle is deactivated. So I hit the gas and spun the tyres right off the line on full boost, then the 1 second delay took me by surprise and spun the tyres harder, so I short shifted to 2nd to see if it would calm down. It didnt, so I backed off the pedal just enough to cut the nitrous and shifted to 3rd. Then when I put my foot in again the tyres let go again and I was wandering quite badly so I pedalled it twice and each time the tyres spun up and I was facing left or right. So I shut it off about 100 feet short of the finish and got myself safe. Quite possibly the most frightening run I have ever done. But the timing ticket was an 11.01 so not too bad at all. Typically on this track your times are 1 second to 1.2 seconds more than running on a prepared Drag Strip. So the numbers are all good from today

Then I put the car on the trailer as I would have been wasting tyres, nitrous and engine if I had done any more passes. So I watched others race for the last 2 hours