Slicks at launch with picture?

Don't beat yourself up, bracket racing like anything has a learning curve.

My first bunch of bracket races driving a friend's car I almost screwed up a "sure" round win when something happened to the much faster roadster I was racing (he broke or spun bad). I had planned to run the car out the back door & not even look over my shoulder for it because I expected the race was going to be an "at the stripe" deal.

But lucky for me it finally dawned on my last working brain cell that I couldn't hear him coming. I finally looked around for him at the last minute & got on the brakes, I barely avoided the breakout. It was funny, I had won the round but was pissed I almost fukked up damn ugly.

Dave I'm ok with how the day went. I got to make some passes with the increased air pressure.
Here is a picture of the truck from that day with 11.5psi in the slicks.
Does the slick look better or should I say ok in this pic?
mike

f250mike wrote:Does the slick look better or should I say ok in this pic?

From that angle & lighting it is a little harder to see all of the slick's details. But it does appear to be "better" than before. It does look like the sidewall is wadding up more evenly an looks much less likely to be on the verge of running over it's own wrinkles like it was before.

The real question is was the 60ft/pass better or worse than before. As has been said a 1000 times before, every car/combo is different. So regardless of any suggestions anyone might make, if after testing a given car/combo was actually found to be faster with the so called "wrong" looking setup, the so called wrong setup is actually the "better" setup to use (for that given car/application).

I would try MT drag radials. I don't 60ft as good as you on motor (mid 1.6s) and im footbraking but I have been in the high 1.4s with nitrous and leaf springs. I loose 2 tenths on motor with the same diameter slicks over a radial. Try to borrow a set you will not be disappointed.