60' affecting MPH

How much does 60' or spinning in general affect MPH? Of course it has a large part on ET but I always thought you trapped higher if you spin....

Originally posted by 96z
How much does 60' or spinning in general affect MPH? Of course it has a large part on ET but I always thought you trapped higher if you spin....

That has got to be one of the biggest misconceptions in drag racing. I know there are certain cases where spinning has yielded higher trap speeds, but it is a rarity in the real world.

I have consistently trapped 1-2 mph higher running on ET Streets (13-14 PSI) than on street tires.

Cutting a better 60' means you are leaving harder and in turn accelerating faster - somewhat of a slingshot effect.

People will argue that spinning allots you more time to accelerate because your ET will be slower - that is NOT true IMO...the distance being covered is the same regardless of how much you spin or hook, but hooking makes the car accelerate harder/faster, increasing your speed through the traps.

This will be a lengthy debate - but from my personaly experience, as well as many of my friends' experiences, hooking increases mph.

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97bowtie, what your saying totally makes sense to me...If you spin all the way through the 60 foot mark going say 20 mph, you could be going 25-30 if you werent spinning.

Anyone else with a different arguement or other experience?

I'm going w/ bowtie. I noticed the same thing w/ both my timeslips and timeslips of other people at the track.

A lot of people will argue this and just wont give up. But it has always been my finding that if I spin... my MPH is off. If I hook, the MPH is ALWAYS higher. I'm with these guys on this one too.

Hopefully I'll be able to prove this theory when I run at the cz28 nationals next weekend. 112.5 on dr's spinning like crazy and hopefully a little higher on the et streets (although it's not a direct comparison since my tranny was acting up last time out) but close enough.