Found this video from my friend Vince's GT500 racing me.

 

Just not sure how to share it here

 

Hit 122 on my first pass when everyone was complaining about the heat making them slow. Also finally stayed on the green side of the light, but clearly I am still a little scared of Roxanne during elimination. My friend Mark with the classic sport fury took me out with a damn good dial, I couldn't catch him.
Oh well, next week.




Saw this hideous minivan looking thing, it wasn't even that fast. Sorry if that's your new favorite vehicle.

 

Well, no trophy, but I got something better, paid! Yep, I'm a pro now


I've been trying to get one of these reaction time stickers for ever. They come in trip zip, .002, & .007, only .002 gets a $2 bill as well. Might not seem like much but these are a big deal at the drag strip, I got extra props for being in the manual tranny class, my lights are improving.

 

Ok, still hanging with Roxanne under pressure. This is the fastest challenger I have raced, when it's on the bottle anyway. He is my good friend and let me be in his winners circle photo.

 

 

This is how I imagine Carlos.

 

Pretty much, except the power figures are all wrong. And no way I would be spraying that champagne around, it would go right down the hatch!

 

Had a ton of fun, just need to ditch Roxanne.



Saw this hilarious sticker on a bimwuh.



This thing looked cool but it couldn't hook up.

 

Wait, what? You went into the 11’s!!!

 

Yep, been practicing a few things.

 

that's awesome Carlos

 

Thanks! Some of the credit goes to fastivab6tg25mr and my friend Chris from the track for convincing me to heat up my conti ECS's. Some goes to my friend Vince (yes from the video) for convincing me to shift a little short in the small gears.

 

Found these.

 

Doing it on regular street radials is a very big deal.

 

More importantly, I thought once you go into the 11's that you had tons more safety gear required on the car. So that is why you kept staying in the low 12's and don't run slicks and such.

 

See you got 0.2" off the 60' time. Good deal. Interested in your response to Lars.

Were you previously hitting your rev limiter?

 

I agree it is a big deal, been running funny names for my car and I am thinking about "On street tires" next week. I can go 11.50 but not 11.49, maybe once, otherwise I will need to spend as much on safety gear as I already have in my car. 4 tenths away is pretty close. On the other hand I can go 135 but not 135.1 and 13mph is a long way away. This also means that nothing can touch me on the street, except maybe Vlad's car. The car I raced with the 11 was a ZL1 Camero on factory tires, who knows tho since I red lit, he had already won before the 60' mark. He only dialed 12.3

 

Not sure I understand your question, I haven't been hitting my rev limiter. I really just got better grip so I could launch at a higher rpm. Maybe you mean about shifting short, then no just shifted 1st, 2nd, and 3rd around 6500 instead of 7 grand.

 

Yes, shifting short. Surprised that helped, although the 6-speed is quite close ratio.

The better launch is what we have all been looking for.