Re: New Qualifying Record
Airbus,no not Voodo, Streag !!
Airbus,no not Voodo, Streag !!
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Any video of that run by Strega?Comment
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By the numbers only yes, but the problem is... the value of those numbers have changed. How does it really count then?Originally posted by johnnyrace View Post
As far as what you could legitimately call a "record" qualification time, the year before the change (2002) Dago Red ran 497.787. So, rounding up for the current timing method, the standings are:
1. Dago Red 507.743 (Skip Holm, 2002)
2. Rare Bear 501.091 (John Penney, 1996)
3. Dago Red 499.8+ (David Price, 1996*)
4. Strega 499.160 (Steve Hinton Jr, 2011)
*Couldn't find the exact number, but know it was 490 and change.
Not like a qualifying "record" means a hill of beans anyway, but still...Last edited by RichH; 09-12-2011, 07:29 PM.Comment
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500 MPH at Reno is better than anything they can do on the ground that I have seen. I've never been to Bonneville.
Good Luck all ya'll! May the "TORQUE" be with you.Comment
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Your "2006" speeds I think should read 1996.
Dago's speed that year was 490.826.
Just for fun, below is a study in what it would have taken (in seconds) to qualify at 500 mph on the different length courses over the last 40 years:
1971-1975 9.815 70.668 = 500.000
1976-1978 9.80 70.56 = 500.000
1979 9.82 70.704 = 500.000
1980 9.006 64.843 = 500.002
1981 9.273 66.765 = 500.004
1982-1984 9.187 66.146 = 500.003
1985-1987 9.222 66.398 = 500.003
1988-1989 9.171 66.031 = 500.002
1990-1996 9.128 65.721 = 500.005
1997-1999 9.125 65.7 = 500.000
2000-2002 8.2688 59.535 = 500.003
2003-2007 8.4803 61.058 = 500.001 – 2% = 490.001
2008-2011 8.4333 60.719 = 500.006 – 2% = 490.006Comment
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"1. Dago Red 507.743 (Skip Holm, 2002)"
I would agree, but I think that is still conservative.
Run Dago's 2002 lap time, with what I believe was the actual course size at that time, of about 8.2 miles (give or take a whisker!) , and you'll come up with near 511mph.
In that light, #7 has done this kind if speed in Q's at least twice,
#77 three times, and #4 four times! And pushing it real close was M. Brown in '06, only a half dozen or so mph slower than today's "new" record.
Does anyone know when the last pylon was moved? I believe there we're some small changes a few years ago?
JTComment
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Not sure I go for the what if's and theory stuff and besides Steven had his window down and elbow sticking out. Thanks, KC
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Cooler than Haill, I finally got the inspiration to make Reno 2004 because of the internet hype of Dago Red and 500 MPH. My girlfriend went along and helped with expenses. She loves it. She drove across the Sierra's with white knuckles as the snow fell back to Sacramento. This is our third year in the Checkered Flag Club and she loves it! She loves it so much, talking about how much I love it, don't much matter.
Ain't I lucky.
She can cross the eyes of a black bass too.Attached FilesLast edited by mgbf4u; 09-12-2011, 07:53 PM.Comment
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Good on Strega and the crew- Congrats!!
As far as "Virtual" course speeds Vs. old course records or calculation methods seems to me to be irrelevant so long as everyone is held to the same rules at that time. NASCAR measures their tracks- as I recall- 15 feet down from the outside wall. No one complains if a drivers runs around the bottom while qualifying, and no one got bent out of shape when all tracks added safer barriers to the outside walls- which obviously would have changed their physical course lengths if the 15 foot method was recalculated; and no one said we now need to "Astrict" track records based on a change in distance (Speed= Distance/Time).
Nobody flies- or drives, "exact" course distance- EVER! back then or now. "Virtual" course change is a myth.......and I aint teach'n 8th grade math......figure it out on your own.
CC"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Albert EinsteinComment
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Yea !
But for eight laps !!
MComment
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Will has skilz!Originally posted by Jason S. View PostWill just went out and finally broke the 400 barrier in Steadfast at 400.452
Jason
you go Will!
Wayne Sagar
"Pusher of Electrons"Comment
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Ghost just did 465.8 on their second lap.Comment
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Pretty nice lap by Sawbones, a mild 420s run!Comment
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