Originally Posted by Illegal Machine
And that's what I keep saying. The guy that was going 40 WON THE RACE! No bones about it.
Like you said, the guy fell asleep at the tree and lost, but no way in hell does he have a slower car.
When you run a 1/4 mile, the clock doesn't start until your car moves forward. If you have a junk reaction time, you CAN be beat by a slower car and both have the time slips to prove it. The winner of the race is whoever has their sign light up first.
You CAN win a race against a car that runs a 13.8 by running a 14.0. It happens all the time. I don't even know how anyone who has ever been to a 1/4 mile can argue this.
This past weekend there was no bracket racing just heads up time trials. The few times someone lined up against me I lost 1 and won 2. All 3 were way faster than me. I was cutting .007, .008, and another .0 something light. One was against a 11.5 srt8 jeep, E55 and the loss was to a 997 porsche. I holeshotted everyone of them and the jeep and E55 came close to catching me but didn't. Now they were almost a half second faster but I gained that advantage off the starting line. The porsche I had thru 3rd gear when he just pulled hard past me and was like at 133mph thru the lights. It's called a holeshot win, in bracket racing or heads up when the slower car beats the faster car to the beams first.