Euro finals performances

[Tet]

Looking at Andy Carter's record setting runs from the weekend, I naturally wondered how that would have fared in an NHRA race. Looking at the qualifying times from Indy last week, not only would Andy have qualified, but the following racers all ran qualifying times quicker than the NHRA bump spots in their classes:

Andy Carter
Risto Poutiainen
Urs Erbacher
Stig Neergaard
Janne Ahonen
Anita Mäkelä

Danny Bellio
Jürgen Nagel
Arvid Grødem
Dan Larsen

Fred Hanssen
Timo Habermann

Melanie Troxel
Adam Flamholc

You can't compare the two directly for a number of reasons, but still, it's an indication that our performances over here are starting to catch up. Well done to all involved.

Edited by Tet on Tuesday 14th September 00:41

Edited by Tet on Tuesday 14th September 00:42

[crikey]

I've been out-anoraked !

[Tet]

Well, you know how it is... one does one's best :-)

[BennettRacing]

Well done to all.

[The Enthusiast]

For me its hard to work out what the 1000ft e.t/Speed would be on the 1/4 mile. I gather the best over the 1000ft is a 3.75 at 322/mph.(could be wrong.) Does anyone know roughtly what that would be on the 1/4 mile? (saying there is no loss of power etc.)

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[NitroChrisUK]

my guess would be a very low 4.40 or high 4.30

[peterwalters]

I think the general rule of thumb is to add 0.69

[Tet]

Not quite that quick. A 3.75s 1000' time would be perhaps a 4.45s pass over the quarter mile. Take a look at some runs from when the NHRA used to run over the full quarter. In 2008, Tony Schumacher ran 4.480s, with a 1000' time of 3.771s, and Antron Brown ran the same quarter mile time with a 1000' time of 3.805s.

[crikey]

One number that I'd never looked at before the weekend, God knows why given my perversion for such things, was the time splits for the last 2 quarters of the track.

For Andy's 4.5728:

660' to 1000' = 0.7808

1000' to 1320' = 0.6861

That's over a distance nigh on the same as a 100m running track.

Another number to throw at the uninitiated

[NitroChrisUK]

NHRA National Record over the 1/4

November 12th 2006

Tony Schumacher 4.428 327.98mph

Tony Schumacher's incremental times: 60ft-0.841 sec., 330ft-2.114, 660ft-3.003/283.19mph, 1,000ft-3.759

All from here

http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCStory.asp?ID=127...

[The Enthusiast]

Thanks, I think earlier in the year there was a run even quicker over the 1000ft.Dixon has done 323mph over the 1000 which I witnessed. Think there has been a 324 aswell. On a seperate run there was a 3.753 which would be quicker than the record.Whats the best in the UK? Was it a 3.88 last weekend?

Edited by The Enthusiast on Thursday 16th September 19:15

Edited by The Enthusiast on Thursday 16th September 19:17

[The Enthusiast]

Just been researching, If Andy Carter qualified at the 2006 Pomona Finals he would of qualified about 13th. (That was when they were still running 1/4 mile.)

Edited by The Enthusiast on Thursday 16th September 19:26

[Burndown]

A one off stormer is one thing but the impressive thing about the NHRA front runners is the consistently fast numbers whilst going rounds.

[crikey]

Burndown said:

A one off stormer is one thing but the impressive thing about the NHRA front runners is the consistently fast numbers whilst going rounds.

With their budgets and track time they should be more consistent, given what the FIA competitors achieve with their limited budgets and track time I think their performance is very comparable.

[The Enthusiast]

Burndown said:

A one off stormer is one thing but the impressive thing about the NHRA front runners is the consistently fast numbers whilst going rounds.

Yeah i agree.Ive noticed it in the US.They seem to run a good number and step it up further. We do good though here in the UK.

Edited by The Enthusiast on Thursday 16th September 21:05

[veryoldfart]

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as always

[CH3NO2ADDICT]

Does anyone know how much effect the track has?

Santa Pod is prepared brilliantly but it is tarmac and the NHRA tracks are super-flat ground concrete.

I have no idea how much effect this has.

I do know that on the same track, on the same day, the Andersens' car has run pretty close to a car which is tuned by a legend and funded by a country, so they must be doing something right ...

http://www.nhra.net/2009/events/race23/results/fri...

[The Enthusiast]

CH3NO2ADDICT said:

Does anyone know how much effect the track has?

Santa Pod is prepared brilliantly but it is tarmac and the NHRA tracks are super-flat ground concrete.

I have no idea how much effect this has.

I do know that on the same track, on the same day, the Andersens' car has run pretty close to a car which is tuned by a legend and funded by a country, so they must be doing something right ...

http://www.nhra.net/2009/events/race23/results/fri...

Yes they did well when they were out there in Vegas. They ran that number at night so the track was cooler.(I was there.) When it got hot in the first round they smoked the tires, although some US teams did aswell. By Pomona Finals the yanks had stepped up. Nattaas run is on here from what I filmed last year: http://www.youtube.com/user/alvin5516#p/u/11/vXilR...

I think concrete tracks are more hardwearing, could be wrong.

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