Dr Mayf
I think this might be useful if we knew how to use it.
I compared your average to our best run and we are
accelerating more than your average during the timed
mile on the short course. That should tell use
something about which way to go with gear ratio or
something but I haven't figured it out yet. I have
heard that the old pros use that 2.25 speed for
tuning.
--- DrMayf <drmayf@teknett.com> wrote:
> At the request of hundreds of you, well, nearly a
> hundred, shucks, 1 of you,
> I did a little cutting on the time slip data. For
> the adventuresome in you,
> if you look at the master data base on the web site
> and start to fiddle with
> it, you most likely will not get to the same point.
> Kentucky windage is used
> in massaging the data... What I did here was to
> separate out the various
> mile markers, figuring that many of the folks who
> just made it to the three
> mile were making 150 mph club runs and/or licensing
> runs of some sort or
> another. Still imbeddin that is the runs that were
> made to show that your
> car is safe above 175 in the 2 1/4 mile trap. So the
> 3 mile data is still
> polluted a little bit. I also subtracted the 4 mile
> data out as well as the
> 5 mile. It is interesting to see that of the 43 cars
> that made it to the 4
> mile, 29 continued to the 5 mile reaching highest
> speeds. Or about a third
> terminated their runs after the four mile because
> they were either not going
> as fast or had failure of some sort or another.
> Well, here is the data cut
> another way....
>
>
> Mile % of Max Speed #
> of Vehicles
> 3 mile 2.25 0.9868
> 39
> 3 1.0000
> 39
> The above is only cars that ran to the 3 mile and
> turned out for whatever
> reason and had their higest speed at that point.
> This could include
> licensing runs, safety check runs, blown motors and
> just plain bad runs.
>
> Mile % of Max Speed #
> of Vehicles
> 4 mile 2.25 0.9456
> 14
> 3 0.9640
> 14
> 4 1.0000
> 14
> This is only the cars that made it to the 4 mile
> flag and got a top speed
> for that mile.
>
> Mile % of Max Speed #
> of Vehicles
> 5 mile 2.25 0.8923
> 29
> 3 0.9186
> 29
> 4 0.9706
> 29
> 5 1.0000
> 29
> This is only the cars that made it to the 5 mile
> flag and got a top speed
> for that mile.
>
> Mile % of Max Speed #
> of Vehicles
> 4+5 mile 2.25 0.9096
> 43
> 3 0.9334
> 43
> 4 0.9802
> 43
> 5 1.0000
> 29
> Obviously combined 4 and 5 mile cars...
>
> So what does it all mean? I dunno. Maybe that if
> you are close to the
> record and have a mile left, go for it. Could mean
> another couple of
> percent of your speed whatever it is. That advise,
> a dollar will get you
> maybe a cup of coffee and a donut,
> maybee...certainly not worth much more.
> Just interesting stuff...
>
> mayf, the red necked ignorant desert rat in Pahrump
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