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Old 07-02-2009, 01:19 PM #8  
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Originally Posted by MBailey View Post
Since 60-130 is a measure of time between two different speeds rather than time over a distance, two seconds difference is no where near 20 car lengths. I dont have my data handy at work but I think from my runs 0.5s is roughly one car length (15ft) by the time the winning car gets to 130 mph. So 2s difference may be ~4 car lengths approx.
I dont think your calculation makes sense, in that case a underground racing Gallardo TT which runs 4 secs 60-130 will pull only 4 cars from a 996tt running 6.2 secs???

Not possible the gallardo runs 170 trap.
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