2024 Ice Drags at IT's raceway February 23 24 and 25

Steve-E-D you're in!

Pete you're in!

How do you guys stage these top fuel dragsters!  Found that staging is erratic when attempting to use the little spoiler at the nose, over the sensor, to stage.  Been staging with the chassis over the starting sensor, to avoid that problem.

When running 2 TF cars of similar length, everything will be equal.  Racing against a regular bodied car will give an advantage to the TF.

Curious how you guys handle this?

Yes, the small front end on the dragsters causes problems with the IR or photocell sensors! I use a tiny bit of masking tape that helps block the IR so that a reading can take place. Mine are so sensitive that in the speed trap it was picking up the small space between the front wing and front wheel. This would give an erroneous speed reading.
Bill I set my Trackmate system up so that it starts timing when the 2nd stage sensor is tripped, (cars are staged before stage sensor 2) and both stage lights come on when you cover stage sensor 1. This is something you can do with a Trackmate, but I don't know if other systems have this feature. If timing is started by the rear of the car, you will get a false reading as it is starting off the rear of the car and the longer car will have an advantage as far as ET reading for a qualifying pass. It will not effect the win loss at the end of the strip.

I had the same problem of the sensors being too sensitive. Ended up putting tape on the cars to work...

Please pull both of my list cars off the list, going to build new cars and bodies, I will start over down the road in the shark pool. Thanks

For proxy racing. Wouldn't it make more sense for the timer to start when you hit the start button? If the car dies at the starting line. The timer keeps going.