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Post by 440gtx on Jun 22, 2008 23:21:48 GMT -7
I thought this was so cool I just had to share it. My 11 year old daughter and I was racing tonight. After we made 1 run, the time screen came up but it didn't show who won. Lets see who can figure out why.  |
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Post by allstarhr on Jun 23, 2008 5:25:49 GMT -7
We had the same thing happen in the Super Pro Final at the first ever AHRA Sportsnationals at SLIR in 1978. Jerry Duncan, a really great racer from St. Louis, who was declared the loser probably still thinks we did something to the clocks to make him lose. We didn't. I'll explain more after someone else figures out what went on here. It's a rare thing.
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Post by SKR on Jun 23, 2008 7:41:46 GMT -7
You both ran a 2.087 when you add the R/T's and E/T's together. This put you both across the finish line at the same time.
Give the win to the better R/T?
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Post by johnbalich on Jun 23, 2008 9:51:21 GMT -7
Ii think win normally goes to higher MPH
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Post by allstarhr on Jun 25, 2008 16:14:56 GMT -7
The following was posted on the 1:1 fullsize drag site, dragracingonline.com today under the Agent 1320 section:
A WINNER BY 3.5 MILLIMETRES
On the heels of our report of the .0000 margins of victory yesterday, Tog of eurodragster.com reports that they had one in Pro Stock at the Swedish round of the 2007 FIA European Championships at Mantorp Park. In the first round of PS Magnus Hansson beat Micke Callin by 0.000039 seconds, a margin of victory of three and a half millimetres. Tog says he thinks this was the closest Pro Stock race ever, in any country. [6/25/2008]
Calculating who won by the fastest mph is really for ties in qualifying.
It's interesting that the quicker ET had the slower MPH and then there's that r/t thing.
Maybe the winner is the person with the best two of three functions?? This is an example of a problem that should be decided on before it happens rather than after in my opinion.
Fortunately for me when the "tie" came up on the tree for us at the AHRA Sports Nationals there were two green lights and one red light at the same time. We actually jumped on the phone and called Larry Applegate (in Denver, CO) who designed the Newtronic's Timing System we were using to find out what to do. His answer? The red light lost as he essentially left at the split of red lighting and going on green. Larry said it was probably as close to an absolute perfect llight as you could get, but it should fall on the red light side so there indeed would be an absolute winner. The winner loved the idea, the loser.... well, does the loser every like losing?
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Post by 440gtx on Jun 25, 2008 19:53:21 GMT -7
the reason that the quicker car (my daughter's) had a slower speed has to do with the trackmate program. I just have the basic program. It uses the length on the car to calculate the speed. We ran so many different cars that I didn't change the length when we changed cars.
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