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]]> http://www.teaminsracing.com/2010/08/21/82110/feed/ Red Light Racing http://www.teaminsracing.com/2010/08/20/red-light-racing/ http://www.teaminsracing.com/2010/08/20/red-light-racing/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:00:13 +0000 kylest http://www.teaminsracing.com/?p=1041 For the most part i was ready to go. I had all week to do a few additional items to the car. This week I loaded the car on Thursday evening instead of Friday mainly because there was a 50% chance of rain on Friday and didn’t want to get caught loading in the rain. On Friday I would have to say I felt like a genius because it rained off and on all day and rained significantly from about 5 pm until dark. It’s about time I got something right.
I got up around 5 a.m. to leave for the race track only to discover lots of fog, humidity, and down right lousy weather. I picked up Joe (my help for Saturday) and Madde (his 8 yr old daughter) who loves racing and headed for Earlville. At approximately 9:00 a.m. we were at the track still waiting for the fog (mist) to lift before time runs could start, and it was quite obvious that the weatherman wasn’t even close again. Friday’s weather predictions included a high of 84 degrees and relatively low humidity. The temperature around 11 a.m. was only 78 degrees, but the humidity was 84 %, and of course Sunday was not much different at 77 degrees with 82% humidity at 11 a.m. It was, shall I say, “not fun.”
My day on the track was not much better as everything that had been recorded from my prior racing weekend didn’t seem to work this weekend. No matter what I did, I seemed to red light. I had a total of eight trips down the track, and only twice did I not light the red bulb. To make things worse, when I didn’t red light I was so late I’m fairly sure I could hear Joe say “ok Don, you can go now.” You talk about embarrassing. Electronics let you continually take time out of the delay box or add time, but no matter how much I removed or added I continue to go red. We will continue massaging the delay box until we get it right, hopefully, it won’t take that many more trips to the starting line because the season is winding down. A few years back I went through the same problems with the other dragster, but we finally got it figured out. It just takes a lot of seat time.
Stay tuned, as I hope the next report has the red bulbs eliminated. The short version of this story is that I lost both days in the first round, and it was extremely hot. Good news, the car ran very well. Now to get the driver on the same page…

DEFINITIONS: For those readers that possibly do not understand what is meant by ‘delay’, I thought I would try and explain.
There are actually four time settings on a Delay Box. The term “Delay Box” is a drag racing term used to describe an onboard timer. An electronic device designed to improve your reaction time, which permits the driver to initiate the run by releasing a button (usually located on steering wheel) at the first flash of the starting lights. One of the delays is the amount of time it takes for the driver to react to his/her starting light added to the time it takes their car to move forward and break the infrared starting line beam.. This time varies by car and by driver with a 1.010 delay time as an example If we go red (early) we add some time, if we go green (late) we take out some time. That is how it is suppose to work.

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