Herbold Racing!

Round 2 of eliminations. I red lit.

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Round 1 buy back. I eliminated Shaun Strickland.

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Round 1 of eliminations. I red lit.

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Third time only pass - dial in is for bonus prize.

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Second time only pass.

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Ok, now that we’ve got the bad (car falling off the trailer) out of the way, let’s focus on the good. We’ll start with the time slips! I set the car up to shine the shift light at 6,000 RPM for all the passes except for the last pass which I set it up for 6,200 RPM.

Time Slip #1:  9:32 A.M.  First time only pass. I accidentally hit the shifter while moving my arm and popped it into neutral right at launch - Oops. Rookie mistake. So what happened was the car went 1-N-2-3. Sigh. The only thing good about this pass is the reaction time.

Dial-in :      .00
Reaction:      .009
I1      :     1.867
I2      :     5.367
I3      :     8.331
MPH (I3):    82.552
I4      :    10.820
E.T.    :    13.052
MPH     :   104.324

I shifted perfectly for the next 6 passes.

Time Slip #2:  10:17 A.M.  Second time only pass.  This is the fastest pass for the whole day.

Dial-in :      .00
Reaction:      .149
I1      :     1.735
I2      :     5.092
I3      :     7.916
MPH (I3):    86.429
I4      :    10.322
E.T.    :    12.501
MPH     :   106.513

Time Slip #3:  11:00 A.M.  Third time only pass.  ADRA has a thing where on the third time only you put down a dial-in on your windshield.  Whoever gets closest to their dial-in in this pass gets a prize.

Dial-in :    12.50
Reaction:      .056
I1      :     1.751
I2      :     5.111
I3      :     7.937
MPH (I3):    86.299
I4      :    10.345
E.T.    :    12.526
MPH     :   106.367

Time Slip #4: 12:24 P.M.  First round of eliminations.  I went up against John J. Schurr.  I red lit and handed this race to him.  I screwed up the staging and ended up deeper than I meant to be.

Dial-in :    12.50
Reaction:     -.103
I1      :     1.765
I2      :     5.228
I3      :     8.111
MPH (I3):    85.187
I4      :    10.543
E.T.    :    12.741
MPH     :   105.626

Time Slip #5: 12:55 P.M.  First round of eliminations, buy-back.  I paid $10 to buy back into the first round and ended up facing off an accomplished NHRA racer, Shaun Strickland.  Shaun also races a Duster.  I thought I was doomed.  But hey, check it out!

Dial-in :    12.55
Reaction:      .001
I1      :     1.750
I2      :     5.113
I3      :     7.938
MPH (I3):    86.746
I4      :    10.340
E.T.    :    12.516
MPH     :   106.731

That’s right baby… a 0.001 reaction time!  Unfortunately I also broke out of my dial in… but fortunately so did Shaun!  And he broke out more than I did… his -0.043 to my -0.034.  Talk about a close race!  So I made it into the second round.

Time Slip #6:  1:28 P.M.  Second round of eliminations.  I went up against Will Warmon.  I red lit and thus ended my race day.  I would have won if I ran this race with a reaction time of 0.169 or lower… sigh.

Dial-in :    12.50
Reaction:     -.022
I1      :     1.735
I2      :     5.106
I3      :     7.935
MPH (I3):    86.443
I4      :    10.343
E.T.    :    12.527
MPH     :   105.611

Time Slip #7:  2:02 P.M.  Time only - just for kicks we bumped the shift RPM up to 6,200 and deflated the slicks down to 11 and a half PSI.  I got the fastest MPH of the day on this pass (but not the fastest E.T.)

Dial-in :      .00
Reaction:      .111
I1      :     1.757
I2      :     5.128
I3      :     7.946
MPH (I3):    87.006
I4      :    10.334
E.T.    :    12.506
MPH     :   106.819

That’s it for this time slips post - much more detail to come.  But now, I gotta go unload my car and put it back into the garage and see what the damage is.