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2nd Mk5GolfGTI Meet - Sun 1st Feb Santa Pod
jonnyc:
Seems the chance of rain is fairly low according to the weather forecasts, and if the strip is in a NSE direction the wind should really help us too haha..
Having never been on a drag strip before, what is the surface like?
I know its glued but how much difference is there in grip levels to a normal road surface?
Hurdy:
The surface is extra smooth and just before the start line there is a "wet" area to pull a burnout in. Pulling the burnout will clean your tyres of crap for a better grip from the start line and is supposed to put some heat in the tyre and give even more grip off the line. In reality unless you have proper drag tyres you only get the benefit of the cleaned tyres - every little helps! but it is hard trying to do a burnout from the off in a DSG.
In low temperature the strip can cool off and give the effect of greasiness like Ben mentions, which for bigger HP cars isn't good for the overall times. If it is near freezing conditions then times will be roughly half a second slower than a nice warm day equivalent - unless you light the tyres up from the start line and then you could be over a second slower!! :scared:
stealthwolf:
Just out of curiosity, how would I go about doing a burnout in a manual FWD? I thought you could only do them in RWDs.
jonnyc:
--- Quote from: stealthwolf on January 27, 2009, 07:24:45 pm ---Just out of curiosity, how would I go about doing a burnout in a manual FWD? I thought you could only do them in RWDs.
--- End quote ---
Get the handbrake on.. A LOT! Have the car sat on the rev limiter, dump the clutch in 1st gear.. smoke smoke smoke.. Release the hand brake all whilst spinning the wheels and leave a little bit of rubber down..
Ill be doing something very similar to this :laugh:
Greeners:
So is there anyone running a manual that has done this before and has some tips on getting the beast off the line? :evilgrin:
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