Drag Week: New Registrations and Scheduling

[CDMBill]

It's hard to know what the registration day number will be, my guess is 237. If they get a lot of folks notifying them that they aren't coming they can back fill off the wait list. Who knows. The race director thing is great and makes all the angst unnecessary. (I hope)

[bulletproof]

we lost a few cars during test and tune last year..then there was the car that went back to his trailer after the cut off time...

[JeffMcKC]

i still think there will be lot's of no shows, and at least 15-20 cars out by the end of the 1st day...

yuup

[Orange65]

I am just trying not to be one of those no shows! If it breaks after the start, so be it- but starting DW is goal #1.

[nesabo]

^^ x2
My Goal #2 is to be back at the end of the week driving my car after making all other tracks. Everything else is a bonus.

[BBR]

Meeeeee tooooo!!!!

[Neverlift]

Why not give the DD class their own lanes and the class cars their own lanes, just pull 8 to 10 out of each lane alternating. This would allow anybody to make a pass when they are ready. Nobody gets certain times to run, and nobody should complain, just make a pass between 9.30 and 2.00, how hard can that be.

[JeffMcKC]

It may evolve during the Week . Being N/A, I would like to pick a Time when the track and air are both there for us. But it will be a equal chance for all.

[The Outsider]

Post shows how much time you spend at the track.....and the keyboard.

Pardon me for expecting an intelligent discussion of a techincal topic on BS.

With the increasing availability of voidless and sipeless** radial drag slicks, the question about carcass construction (specifically NOT compound or tread design), seemed appropriate.

Most certainly, the COMPOUND of a tire's tread has a foreseeable effect on how much the tread is abraded or sheared and the coefficient of "grip."*** And a "hard" tire with voids and sipes is generally designed to evacuate the area under the tread, so a mild "scrubbing" effect is predictable, as the softer rubber deposited on the surface is abraded and evacuated away. Tire slippage would tend to increase the abrasiveness of a "hard" tire.

But thus far, no one has explained why if two racing tires have the same tread characteristics (compound, temperature, ungrooved "slick" tread), why a bias ply slick would lay down rubber and a radial slick would allegedly "pick up" rubber.

Although the rolling resistance of a bias ply slick would be greater due to the opposing diagonal cord construction, which could possibly lead to more shearing and slightly higher localized temperatures due to internal friction, would this be sufficiently different to change the "pick up" characteristics of the tire?

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NOTES:
**technically all tires not worn down to the belts and cords have a "tread." Racing slicks merely do not have voids (e.g. grooves) and sipes (e.g. small "cuts")).

***Coefficient of grip is calculated F=uN,wherein F is the force generated, u is the coefficient of friction, and N is the weight on the surface. The coefficient of friction is affected by tread compound, abrassiveness and stickiness of the surface, heat and other factors.
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4. Thinking and writing something other than schoolyard insults is just too taxing.

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2. Afraid that someone will question their "unquestioned" brilliance.

1. They can't admit they don't know the answer, either.

[lun40119]

I thought about that too jeff......I'd like to run while the air is a little more favorable for the NA stuff.......but it goes back to the age old ball buster. Same Day Same track...........sure does sort out all the bullshit!!!