Mr.F
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Following our successful visit to Shakespeare County Raceway, I've had some discussions with them about running an Eliminator there later this year. I propose to substitute the Santa Pod date for Round 9, 2nd October for a return visit to Shakespeare County.
This will be a normal round of the Z Challenge series, but with the added attraction of an eight car Bracket Eliminator. Those who attended the last round will have seen this in action - essentially it makes all entrants equal as opposed to fastest car wins!
We would have a couple of Z specific qualifying sessions for entrants to get a feel for their car on the day and then you post a time that you think you can run to consistently. This then introduces a handicap between the two lanes where the slower car gets a head start equal to the difference between the two posted times.
For example, if a car can run 12.5 second quarters and he is alongside a 15.0 second car, the slower car leaves the line 2.5 seconds ahead of the quicker car who has to chase him down and pass before the end of the quarter.
In theory, all cars become equal and the differences are down to driver skill - reaction time and ability to drive consistently. Break out (running faster than your posted time) will lose you the race, so no sand-bagging. A red light will lose you the race. In the case of two red lights, the worst offender is the loser.
I'd like to see eight commitments to be able to happily confirm this with the SCR guys, ideally with a couple of alternates in case of drop-outs.
This will be another first for the Drag Challenge, so get you name down to participate. In the case of more than eight entrants, the fastest eight cars from qualifying will compete.
This will be a normal round of the Z Challenge series, but with the added attraction of an eight car Bracket Eliminator. Those who attended the last round will have seen this in action - essentially it makes all entrants equal as opposed to fastest car wins!
We would have a couple of Z specific qualifying sessions for entrants to get a feel for their car on the day and then you post a time that you think you can run to consistently. This then introduces a handicap between the two lanes where the slower car gets a head start equal to the difference between the two posted times.
For example, if a car can run 12.5 second quarters and he is alongside a 15.0 second car, the slower car leaves the line 2.5 seconds ahead of the quicker car who has to chase him down and pass before the end of the quarter.
In theory, all cars become equal and the differences are down to driver skill - reaction time and ability to drive consistently. Break out (running faster than your posted time) will lose you the race, so no sand-bagging. A red light will lose you the race. In the case of two red lights, the worst offender is the loser.
I'd like to see eight commitments to be able to happily confirm this with the SCR guys, ideally with a couple of alternates in case of drop-outs.
This will be another first for the Drag Challenge, so get you name down to participate. In the case of more than eight entrants, the fastest eight cars from qualifying will compete.
