5.85 wheelstand pass

On second thought I tell ya what, all you cool lookin' guys can ride all the wheelies you want, I'll be in the other lane with my boring ride collecting my check...................and after all, isn't that what we all strive for?????

man your easy

NOS42 wrote:man your easy

whatever that means.....................lol. must be a yellowbullet thing.

richter69 wrote:On second thought I tell ya what, all you cool lookin' guys can ride all the wheelies you want, I'll be in the other lane with my boring ride collecting my check...................and after all, isn't that what we all strive for?????

dont hate because im beautiful

I have the power to wheelie and ANY point in the track. What makes us good is the fact that we don't..................................usually

But as we all know. $hit happens.

But........................we lift.

NOS42 wrote: for some strange reason that style of racing is growing...a little at a time, but growing none the less....if you dont feel comfortable racing against them, dont.....if you feel better about running a big tire and bars....then run'um, nobody is forcing anyone to run against these guys...i for one enjoy watching these events, the guys are very good sportsman, and I would like to be able to compete myself in some sort of class that they may have to fit my car

That's because some of the rule makers who are in most cases the promoters too, want them to do the big wheel stands. It's adds thrill and excitement to the event. They could care less if the guy wrecks his car, they're not paying for it and the only loss they face is the time to clean up the mess. We see it at our track all the time, the bigger the wheel stand the better.

Doug Rahn wrote:

NOS42 wrote: for some strange reason that style of racing is growing...a little at a time, but growing none the less....if you dont feel comfortable racing against them, dont.....if you feel better about running a big tire and bars....then run'um, nobody is forcing anyone to run against these guys...i for one enjoy watching these events, the guys are very good sportsman, and I would like to be able to compete myself in some sort of class that they may have to fit my car

That's because some of the rule makers who are in most cases the promoters too, want them to do the big wheel stands. It's adds thrill and excitement to the event. They could care less if the guy wrecks his car, they're not paying for it and the only loss they face is the time to clean up the mess. We see it at our track all the time, the bigger the wheel stand the better.

Bingo. Big wheelies and cars racing out of control....put lots of butts in the bleachers ($$$$) but don't make for good side by side racing or a smoothly run program. If you're just a fan, I guess it's fun to watch....If you're in one of the cars, not so much. I think a smart racer will APPLY the laws of physics rather than DEFY them. JMO.

What is funny to me is the mentality of it all....I read the posts on the Bullet about this same video....
Everyone was saying how big Mr. Handy's balls were and how great of a "driving " job he did to go 5.85 on the bumper.....I did not see ANY driving going on at all.

That video would have looked quite a bit different if everything did not go perfect.....one small slick spot, wander out of the groove, and that car was hunting a guard-rail or worse yet, the other car.

Do I like to watch it? Yes I do but,....It makes me nervous. Would/could I get one down the track? I would relish the chance to just have to "get there first" for a change....with no worry of breaking-out. And I hope I would be a little nervous then too.

A "great" driver knows when to hang with it and when not to....There are a bunch of people taking and making a bunch of risks just to try to be the "man" for the day.....

These are just some of my observations....carry on.

Jeff

the headsup racing does draw the crowd and i like watching it too,but the rules are far too "slack".every year somebody dies in one.i dont see why they dont run bars on them,but dont give a shit. like my uncle said about drinken whiskey "everybody that likes it ought to have some".

These overkill wheelstand deals are a fuuk'n waste of energy, would you rather hang the wheels high or be farther down the track? It's fine to say that the driver knows the risk to himself if one of these moon-shot rides gets real crazy one pass and goes too far up-on the bumper like in the video. But at that point he's not really a "driver" anymore, he's just along for the ride & praying it doesn't come down falling over the guardwall & killing a bunch people.

It would be a different story if the guardrails/guardwalls were high enough to contain a bumperstand gone wrong. If they were that tall then I say go for it, scrape that back bumper & crush the headers & oil pan all you want.

It is a very real possibility that if some/enough fans should get killed from one of these "bumperstand gone wrong" deals, eventually some racing circuit will end up requiring radio controlled kill-boxes (like the monster trucks) for these wheels up 10.5 shows. Kinda hard to pedal a car during a too high moon-shot to soften the landing if the engine has been shut down by an offical.

Last weekend my FED started hanging the wheels high (well, seemed high to me) in the air and this weekend she's getting bar's. Love my car too much to mess her up by either losing it or bending the chassis on the way back down. First time it lifted them i backed off and got them down. Second time I waited a little longer and saw they had reached there max height (about 1.5 - 2ft up) so stuck with it till she come down on her own and ran an 8.68 @ 155. Next run out she came up and down, and up again and down, and made a move towards the centerline just before the 1/8th. To 330ft she was 0.03 faster so im sure that would have been at least 0.05 at the finish line. Think she just unsettled the tyres but dont particularly want her doing that again. On a side note - can anyone make any recommendations on length and also initial height. Want her to go faster, see if i cant make the 8.50's