Would you stay in the throttle?

[Deaf Bob]

I DEFINITELY would have stayed on the throttle!! It Went up smooth and gradual, so I would have been telling myself it was gonna come back down any second. Then I would have been scared out of my mind at the 330, and calculating what would happen if I lifted.
THen, half frozen in fear, I would've realized the finish line was coming and just bailed out of it and grabbed the chutes!!

Everyone would be in the pits congratulating me on an awesome job of driving, and I would be stupified, asking myself, "What the hell just happened??"

Speaking from experience, sounds like...

[MoparBilly]

I DEFINITELY would have stayed on the throttle!! It Went up smooth and gradual, so I would have been telling myself it was gonna come back down any second. Then I would have been scared out of my mind at the 330, and calculating what would happen if I lifted.
THen, half frozen in fear, I would've realized the finish line was coming and just bailed out of it and grabbed the chutes!!

Everyone would be in the pits congratulating me on an awesome job of driving, and I would be stupified, asking myself, "What the hell just happened??"

[Barry Donovan]

you know, I heard a quote the other day ...

if you need an angle of attack guage, you should not be flying. - chuck yeager

[Hemi Joel]

The car almost blew over backwards, the results of which would have been destruction, injury, possibly death. Common sense in that situation would be to lift. If he was winning, then maybe it was worth the risk. He was loosing. In the drivers shoes, it is hard to accurately assess the situation in real time, but watching on the computer, I say lift. Don't risk it if you are going to loose anyway.

[mopower58]

It is 1/8 mile and they claim the last 330 feet has more traction than the first 330.

[Deaf Bob]

Most of the other cars are running in the 180 mph range.

1/8. or. 1/4?

[pdub]

I'm sittin' here thinking about this, the big question and thread title - would you stay in the throttle?

Hard to say, never having been there. Hard for any of us to say with that many ponies gettin' traction. And it may depend...from my only experience to compare it to, after having spent 2 1/2 days in Ohio to get less than one and a half minute on the track (weather included), I just might stay in it. As long as I could see enough out of the windshield enough to know I'm going straight. With faith in the mechanical accuracy of positive traction.

[Russell]

3000 to 4000 horsepower...Holly Springs Mississippi...Southeast of Memphis

that is insane! 180's in the low fours! When I think of a really fast car going low 4's I am thinking 0-60...

[mopower58]

i would guess 143mph, 4s and 9s kinda look the same on the score board

Most of the other cars are running in the 180 mph range.

[mopower58]

how much power are those making? Where is that track?

3000 to 4000 horsepower...Holly Springs Mississippi...Southeast of Memphis

[Ron Ward]

Watch the video closely. It appears he breaks the MPH beam with the rear tires and the front tires come back to terra firma just before breaking the beams at the finish line. This would make the computer "think" the car covered roughly 10 more feet in the time it took to go from the MPH to the ET beams.


Ron

[BOOOGHAR]

i would guess 143mph, 4s and 9s kinda look the same on the score board

[Russell]

how much power are those making? Where is that track?

[mopower58]

Here is the qualifying order. Might have been a glitch or breaking beam with rear tires?

Outlaw Drag Radial / True 10.5
1. Kyle Huettel - 4.213 @ 177.03
2. Kenny Hubbard - 4.224 @ 182.48
3. Steve Jackson - 4.272 @ 184.50
4. Kevin Fiscus - 4.283 @ 193.13
5. John Kolivas - 4.314 @ 180.29
6. Brad Edwards - 4.316 @ 182.63
7. Mark Woodruff - 4.320 @ 180.80
8. Nick Owens - 4.403 @ 168.16
9. Rob Valden - 4.405 @ 177.80
10. Shane Stack - 4.410 @ 173.81
11. Jason Etheridge - 4.441 @ 177.03
12. Ruben Tetsoshvili - 4.455 @ 158.39
13. Randy Westmoreland - 4.471 @ 173.08
14. Jeff Cooner - 4.478 @ 172.41
15. Chad Henderson - 4.486 @ 162.87
16. Brandon Fugler - 4.519 @ 167.66
17. Paul Soliz - 4.520 @ 173.34
18. Robert Culver - 4.524 @ 164.41
19. Josh Lindsay - 4.590 @ 155.82
20. Tommy Rainer - 4.619 @ 161.93
21. Bobby Kruck - 4.621 @ 159.52
22. Craig Ondrick - 4.656 @ 153.85
23. Gabriel Black - 4.657 @ 163.16
24. Kenny Boyce - 4.717 @ 151.16
25. Eddie Harrison - 4.739 @ 154.64
26. Duke Montgomery - 4.830 @ 154.53
27. Paul Gargus - 4.851 @ 136.49
28. Mike Keenan - 4.888 @ 136.24
29. Bruce Johnson - 5.033 @ 153.22
30. Tommy Kelley - 5.417 @ 156.90
31. Brian Green - 5.498 @ 125.52
32. Adam Geir - 5.9892 @ 161.06

X275
1. Terry Elam - 4.640 @ 155.17
2. Sean Ashe - 4.651 @ 155.44
3. Jason Michalak - 4.661 @ 150.96
4. Jeff Reed - 4.674 @ 154.27
5. Daniel Pachar - 4.680 @ 152.24
6. Brad Medlock - 4.680 @ 155.44
7. Broz Powell - 4.734 @ 156.09
8. Blake Catalanotto - 4.738 @ 147.44
9. Daniel Pharris - 4.746 @ 156.20
10. Shawn Ayers - 4.767 @ 151.36
11. Dustin Mewbourn - 4.786 @ 151.46
12. John Gotera - 4.817 @ 147.69
13. Brian Murphy - 4.845 @ 147.69
14. Ray Parsons - 4.861 @ 145.16
15. Lyle Barnett - 4.862 @ 148.47
16. Jimmy White - 4.863 @ 145.11
17. Steven Biggs - 4.869 @ 148.37
18. Jason Hutcheson - 4.885 @ 148.22
19. Dan Saitz - 4.889 @ 152.59
20. Pipe - 4.896 @ 145.21
21. Terry Bullard - 4.927 @ 141.33
22. Tim Rigby - 4.927 @ 141.33
23. Shane Crowden - 4.932 @ 145.44
24. Corey Jordan - 4.954 @ 151.62
25. Chad Revia - 4.988 @ 150.25
26. Daniel Large - 5.020 @ 140.76
27. Corey Stephens - 5.032 @ 139.28
28. Donnie Branham - 5.051 @ 142.90
29. Shannon Renfro - 5.052 @ 140.89
30. Kevin Schrimsher - 5.076 @ 140.23
31. Nathan Stinson - 5.162 @ 139.45
32. Dan Schell - 5.203 @ 132.08

Outlaw X
1. Marty Stinnett - 4.469 @ 170.91
2. Joel Greathouse - 4.538 @ 171.95
3. Kevin Mullins - 4.548 @ 156.09
4. Paul Naquin - 4.668 @ 159.18
5. Kevin Scott - 4.703 @ 157.62
6. DJ Loiacano - 4.772 @ 154.75
7. Mitch Zaretsky - 4.821 @ 154.22
8. Joe Ballard - 5.143 @ 136.70
9. Jason Brown - 5.181 @ 135.09
10. Ragan Huddleson - 5.240 @ 147.64
11. Robby Montgomery - 6.176 @ 118.45

Leaf Spring
1. Lyle Barnett - 4.840 @ 152.65
2. Jamie Otts - 4.887 @ 146.77
3. Robert Williams - 5.086 @ 138.12
4. Donnie Davidson - 5.141 @ 137.78
5. Philip Reichardt, III - 5.145 @ 137.11
6. Jamie Wayne - 5.200 @ 136.49
7. Gary Medders - 5.395 @ 131.08

[groucho]

I can't believe he didn't loose it going 190mph on the back wheels... crazy stuff!

For some reason I almost wanna call bullshit on the MPH. It didn't look that fast to me....and that much MPH should've put more than enough air under it to flip over