MADsteve said:
Just want to add aquestion to this (sorry if it steers it slight off track, but how come 2 cars that cross the line at the same point can be travelling at (grossly) different speeds??
The answer's probably simple:nervous:
:nervous: but I never was a whizz at physics
One way it happens is that one car, (for example the lower powered of the two), gets a pretty decent start, and heads off up the strip. The second car, (for example with more power, perhaps big single turbo and tripple plate clutch), launches at a similar time but drops the clutch in too quick and bogs the engine down.
Car 2 then takes a second or two to finish lurching around, build up boost and get the car going properly again, and takes off after car 1. Cos there's more power he catches up car 1 pretty quick, but 'cos car 1 was quite far ahead he only catches him at the finish line.
At the 1/4 mile point the ETs are the same, but the terminal speeds are massively different.
I experienced this at my first trip to the Pod, where I was the muppet with the big single and the tripple plate lurching about off boost, and the M3 got away cleanly.
Only happened once though, and I did just manage to catch him on that occasion, so saved face for Skylines.
