Ouch! Talk about a jinx.
Yeah, the day really didn’t work out well for anyone, especially clochner. At least he was able to bum a ride home with Ynnekdude, though - better than riding in the tow truck! 
FWIW, my best run of the day was 12.69 @ 110.xx, with a 1.885-second 60 ft time. That may have been my only sub-2.0 second 60 ft, as a matter of fact. Ugly.
Ynnekdude had one run of 12.71 @ 107-ish, IIRC.
Shoulda waited until Sunday to run. DA was -400 vs. +600, and no way clochner would have run over whatever cut his tire.
And the tow service was included with the Audi Roadside Assist. That would have been an expensive tow, as we were well over an hour away from the Chicago Audi dealer. It’s funny how that day really didn’t cost me anything out-of-pocket. Except, of course, the replacement summer tires - which I’ll get around to eventually.
yeah seriously.
Could’ve knocked on the A6’s wood trim to reverse the potential jinx.
I believe “knock on wood” was a phrase used during our conversation. Should have offered up the wood trim for free knocks.
Best run was 12.7x @ 108 with a 1.8x 60’ I believe. I’ll have to check the slip. Track prep was a joke. My car was spinning all 4s in second gear.
Do you guys make any TP adjustments when you spin badly? I never do but I should really consider it on a cold day with poor prep. Street traction is better on those days.
In fact I find I can spin it for like 60 feet at the strip but on the road, maybe 15 feet (at best). The surface is super smoothe, and is nice and grippy if you have hot slicks but is shit if you have channeled street tires that are cold. Even a mini burnout won’t warm your tires up to get as much grip as you do on the street.
My first run was on 50 psi, all around. I ran a 12.9. I went right back to staging and ran a 12.7 with 50psi again. I noticed some decent wheel spin on that second run so I dropped the pressures a bit and then spun for the rest of the day. I fiddled with my pressures a number of times with no benefits. I also did some mini burnouts but they didn’t help either. ZCD had the same issues. Our tires were actually caked with additional rubber from the drag cars there… in fact, mine still are.
We were pretty much the only cars there with street tires so the employees didn’t seem to give a damn about clearing the lanes of debris when we came. No matter how much I babied the throttle or dropped the pressures, I would spin like crazy. I couldn’t get below 13.1 with a 2.x 60’ for the rest of the day and I ran at least 14 runs. I ran this same setup last April with much lower temps that didn’t even get out of the 30’s and I was cutting 1.7 60’s all day long with a consistent 12.6 trap.
50 holy shit
and to get the goo off just do a burnout on a regular road.
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True dat.
Funny thing: Went to dinner with the family Saturday night, and about 5 minutes into the ride the wife says “…did you get new tires or something - why are they so LOUD???” LOL!
I’m trying to get that junk offa there - did a 4-wheel drift through a 90-degree left turn from a stop yesterday - now I have to do the same thing on a right-hand turn and it should mostly be gone, and then it will be time to swap to winters.