ok i'll get into the misshifting later

anyways. first time to ever do bracket racing, no complete idea about the rules, or tactics(the braking and stuff) i just went out there and ran. i didnt expect to get past the 1st round. i won 2 rounds out of the 4! i had a dial-in of 10.45 i kept running anywhere from 10.4 to 10.6.

the first two i ran i didnt mess up or anything, i guess i just didnt put enough power down at launching, and i ended up running 10.6s, but still won. heres the part that pissed me off!
was running against a gremlin(lol) i thought to myself, hmm, i keep running 10.6s, maybe i should just pop the clutch instead of quickly easing off(bad mistake ) i ended up wheel hopping for a second, then SOMEHOW grinding going into second gear, which i have never done before. so i figure wow i messed up 2 times, i'm gonna have a slow time. WRONG!! i ran my best(ever) of 10.37 ! how in the hell he ended up breaking out too, but not as much as me. i came up to him in the staging lanes explaining how i screwed up and shook his hand and we were like good race. he even complimented my car:P

so instead of winning, i bought my girlfriend this awesome t-shirt.

yes that is MY car!


now to the sad/lucky part.
i always told myself i would never misshift, and didnt see how anyone could, its pretty straight -forward shifting. well i guess i wasnt paying much attention. it was right after i passed the time board, so i was done racing. i was at the top of third gear and had to slow down so i figured i might as well shift since i'm so close to redline. well either i put it into second(was doing about 65 or so) or something else happened, but i freaked out. luckily i had only taken my foot 1/5th the way off of the clutch before i realized something wrong. the engine got really loud and i could just feel it in the pedals so i quickly put my foot back down and put it into neutral.
no fluids or anything leaking, no loss of power(for sure...i kept running..lol..)

overall, was a fun night.

 

congrats on winning 2 races. just keep practicing. so you who was right about the dial-in??? chipmonk or me???

 

you, at least i'm pretty sure. if my r/t wouldve been added to my e/t i probably would have been too slow.

 

lol super you are never going to give up on the fact that you are wrong.
if you werent doubting yourself, you wouldnt have even asked that question.

 

Actually I asked it because I knew the answer. You will never find anyone to back you up because you are WRONG.

 

oh, i also forgot to mention there was this saturn 4 door..i dont know much about the models, but i know it wasnt one of the new ones, it was like an sc or sl or something like that. anyways, he was running like 9.3(1/8)

oh not to mention like 20 civics. lol