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Old 08-18-2009, 12:52 PM   #95 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JoeD View Post
As usual, people seem to be fixated on E.T. when really the trap-speed matters much more on a street-car. Quick E.T.s are nice, but it really is meaningless as soon as you drive off the track onto an un-prepped, bumpy, dirty public road, where as the trap-speed is more of an indication of how fast the car actually is (as well as the MPH delta between 1/8-mile and 1/4-mile).

I would rather see consistent 112+ MPH runs over 12s.
Well since most races are based on who can get to the finish line first I could see why most people would rather have a fast ET instead of a high trap. I ran in an event recently and was matched up against a super light QR sentra twice during the qualifying rounds and he beat me both times by 1 tenth and was only trapping 95mph. I think my highest trap that day was 101 I believe. I was 4 tenths and 4 mph slower than usual because of the heat.
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