Anyone else enjoy doing this...

If I think your going to run faster than me, I red light you. Give me that extra tenth or two lead.

Like the other day at the track. I raced an older Nova that was running mid 12's. I knew this guy would get me out of the whole bad because my truck really does not hook great. So I cut a -.083 light on him...add the .19X reaction time he had and bam..now we got a race. He beat me by 4/10's still, but to the unknowing, wow, that truck is giving that racecar a good run for the most part.

Man, it gets under peoples nerves...ha.

 

Thats bad track manners, well besides pissing the other racer off, I guess if your test n tuning it really doesnt matter

 

If one racer redlights, does it cause the clock to not show both racer's times and not provide them with a timeslip?

 

Track manners...bah...what are smoking.

If you red light to early, you do not get a slip..you aborted the run.

 

I've never done it, but it sounds pretty funny

 

I'd only do it if I were screwing with one of my friends and I wanted to taunt them or something. Or I guess if it was TNT night it wouldn't be so bad. You don't really get anything out of it though. Not only do you not get to practice a run and see how you did(since you don't get the timeslip), but you also just wasted your own time doing so. Especially since the other car still ended up beating you. Not to mention some of the track nights at local dragstrips are packed. If you wait an hour or two to get on the line just to redlight against a faster car, kinda eliminates the whole purpose of going to the track doesn't it. Like I said if you knew a friend was gonna beat you and you wanted to give him a good run I can see it, but not doing it to someone you don't know just because you know their car is faster.

 

You do get your timeslip.

I don't need practice on the tree...

 

Jay-Roll, I don't know what track you're running at, but at my local track, like Cantonracer said, you get a timeslip even if .you redlight. I don't know if you get one if you SERIOUSLY redlight, but leaving a few tenths early still gets you a slip.

 

If you red light too bad...you get an aborted run.

Speaking of aborted run...I raced a Neon, nothing special, actually the guy was trying some ignition stuff on it. His car was so slow, the track thought that it was an aborted run. It must have been a 30 second car at best. The guy was asking if his time was on my slip because it was aborted.

 

No that's what I meant about the aborted run, leaving real early. After I reread it I realized you were saying as long as you don't leave too early. I'd still do it to a buddy, just to screw with him. As long as I didn't have to wait long to get another run in.

 

thats kinda gay to redlight in order to make it a close race...

 

Your opinion....I personally get a kick out of it...especially when guys think they are going to put a chunk of ground on you and you take that away...

 

It would be funny, just to be a complete jackass about it, if you were completely outmatched, like you brought your mom's minivan or something, and just took off as soon as the cars before you cleared out.

Then you meet up with the guy in the other lane and give him hell because he didn't even try to catch you.

ok, well maybe it would only be funny to me.

 

that's in the same league as the ricer flyu by