ORIGINAL: JUST ENUF
[&o]IS INDEX WHERE A PERSON DAILS HIS OR HER CAR INTO.? VIA GEARS, TIRE SIZE 60/40 ? THINK i'll need some explaining, oh I'D BETTER TELL YA MY REACTION TIME SUCKS ITS BETWEEN 7 AND 9 LOUSEY i know but will learn where to stage the car and what light to watch.[:-]
Hi Jim,
Index Class has no dial in. E.T. is whatever the Index Class is. For example, SAMDRL (San Antonio Model Drag Racing League) has a very popular 2.50sec Index Class. You go 2.50sec or slower - anything better than the other lane, you win. You go quicker than 2.50sec, like 2.499, you lose by break-out. A really economical way to go heads-up racing. A racer can dump as little or as much in the car as they want to. The great leveler is the E.T. Index. Last time I ran the 2.50sec Index Class at SAMDRL, I had a 2.56 E.T. average in quals, and still only qualified #6 out of 9 cars!! That's how close the heads-up E.T. Index racing is.
Yeah, RT is a moving target!
And it doesn't get any better with age.... Just keep working at it. Develop a rythym at the start line and stay with it, it'll come around.
ac