The rain finally quit, racing again

[pittsburghracer]

we arrived at Quaker City in Ohio Thursday evening and the rain moved in right at out scheduled 2pm starting time. One of those of and on all day rains so instead of 5000.00, 10,000.00, 5000.00 payouts it’s 10,000.00 to win Saturday and 10,000.00 again on Sunday. Matt ran a 6.13 in is one and only time trial and dialed a 6.14 first round. Matt’s .003 light to the other guys .010 but Matt gave it back on the top end with the other guy right on his dial and Matt scrubbed around 5 mph handing it back in a close one. We are headed back to the buyback window to see if we can continue into the evening.

 

[fishmens67]

Excellent
I hope you're having a good time, and enjoying the father son time as well.

 

[pittsburghracer]

Well that kinda sucked. Not his best day of driving. Rest up for tomorrow.

 

[Plymouth 65]

Good luck today, have fun and be safe! 65'

 

[pittsburghracer]

Looking at the slips from yesterday it would have gone 6.13, 6.13, 6.141
So it wasn’t my tuning or cars fault. Lol.

 

[justinp61]

Good luck John, I hope Matt puts it all together today.

 

[pittsburghracer]

Good luck John, I hope Matt puts it all together today.

Starting off way better. One of his friends broke a converter so he gave Matt his entry so he will be double classing my car today. He won both entries first round today and my Duster would have gone two more 6.13’s. His mph in the 1/8 is usually 110-111mph so you can see he had a little room
To play the game.

 

[justinp61]

It looks like he's on his game today. Keep us posted.

 

[pittsburghracer]

Won second round in his entry and was 10 cars away in the second entry and the rain moved in. We parked it in the car trailer for awhile.

 

[pittsburghracer]

Nothing pisses me off as much as losing playing top end games. He lost his buddies entry giving it back .002 and after the rain gave his entry back by .004. Trust the damn car and drive it hard. Wasn’t a lot of talking on the 85 mile trip home. If he keeps this up he will be riding the bench. I fricking hate sandbagging.

 

[pittsburghracer]

A screenshot of this weekends coverage

 

[moparstud440]

I know racers like to play top end games and I understand and get them. To me if the driver is on his game and the car is dead nuts, put a dial on it and trust the car. I get a kick out of some of the fellow racers I run against always bragging about how deadly their car is, but they hold 2-3 each run. They do win some, but they lose some to by trying to get to cute at the finish. If I had a car that ran the same number all day I'd focus more on being able to string together 4-5-6-7+ great lights in a row and just let the car do it's thing.

 

[pittsburghracer]

I dial hard because I can’t judge the topend like these flexible kids. Especially against the full fields of dragsters I race against. Most of the big money events separate the cars and dragsters until at least after the third round. Only one pass this weekend my car wouldn’t have ran 6.13-6.14 and that’s when the track went away right before the rain and lost .02 in the sixty foot. If I was rich I would have a small nitrous plate on it for those rare times but my son would abuse that.

 

[pittsburghracer]