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Making that first run in your new car

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coupemerc:
"Good Judgement" is probably the best attribute a driver can have.

wideopen231:
Bill,


I hate it  when I don't have a bookie to take my bets. just lost a million I would have bet on comment from you on that. Why else would I be building new car ground up?

Plus remember comments about Ed on drr being the same and we must be kin somewhere down the line. Guess that explained two things.

Draw 3D:
I'm currently going through my licensing process and on a couple of runs, I was told by track officials that a run would not count because I pedaled the car when it got sideways due to bad track, apparently it's better to cross the centerline or crash than letting up on a license pass, who would have thought?

wideopen231:
Funny thats 100% oppisite of what I got for lifting after getting car straightened out so as not to have it settle dwon aimed the wrong way on track. Stupid me I thought correctinga 275" sideways car out showed good handling and shutting down under control good judgement.

IMO you did right thing. Any idiot can hold throttle down. Takes a driver to save the car instead of his ego taking over

JrFuel Hayden:
Good Advice guys, another reason to take it in steps as suggested and insisted by driving schools, is your eyes are lens, and your ears are microphones to your brain, so your brain/computer needs to upgrade it's software so it can get caught up to all that new input coming at it that fast. Most drivers that drove a quick/fast dragster for the 1'st time maybe drove a fast door car , but not too many have ever driven a 9 second race car. So let your software upgrade your brain for all that new input coming faster than anything it's seen before.
And yes, each time down the track you will feel more in control, you will have less visual distortions. Shut-her down if you even have a hint the car is ahead of you.
My 1'st time driving a FED C/D it all happened too fast. now that was in 1962, with a flagman, and before VHT was even invented.
Each run after the first run I felt more in control, to the point I could pick which cone I wanted to shut it off.
One of my new JrFuel guys has been building his early Hemi on a Pro-stock truck block [ Real Trick combo] drove an A/FD about 10 or 15 years ago, so he figured a JF car would be easy. He has taken his car down the track 5 or 6 times, but not to the finish line, yet, and I think his JrFuel is leaving much harder than his A Fuel can did 10-15 years ago. i know our JF car can run 60 foots 1.01 to 1.06.
So lesson here is to take it easy and in steps.  And don't have your tune-up set on kill, you want laps, seat time, so you can help decide on changes to improve your performance.

Have Fun and race Smart.
Jon Hansen

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