{"id":205,"date":"2010-07-22T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2010-07-28T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:01:29","slug":"big-drag-race-win-for-ford-and-ramey-motorsports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Big Drag Race Win for Ford and Ramey Motorsports"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Blaine<\/a>
Ramey Motorsports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Blaine Ramey of Ramey Motorsports is a Ford Engineer and long time friend of Performance Trends.\u00a0 Lately he’s been working with us on his 2010 Ford Cobra Jet Mustang.\u00a0 In just their 4th outing, they won their NHRA Super Stock SSBA class (which is a Bracket Racing<\/a> class) at Mid Michigan, July 11 with Charley Downing driving.\u00a0 This is the FIRST win for the “Drag Race specific” Cobra Jet in this division.<\/p>\n

\"Weather<\/a>
Weather Readings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Blaine has been using Performance Trends Drag Race Analyzer Pro<\/a> “Team Engineer” version that utilizes our DataMite Mini USB Weather Station<\/a> with Wind Wizard<\/a> to predict his Dial Ins.\u00a0 For those not familiar with\u00a0modern drag racing, Super Stock (and other classes) lets vehicles with very different performance compete against each other.\u00a0 What happens is the slower car gets a head start.\u00a0 How much head start is determined by both drivers predicting their ET, their “Dial In”.\u00a0 If the slower car has a dial in 2 seconds slower than the faster car, they get a 2 second head start.\u00a0 If a driver goes quicker than their dial in, they “break out” and loose.<\/p>\n

Long story short, being able to exactly<\/em><\/strong> predict your vehicle’s performance, and cutting a perfect light is key to winning.\u00a0 With changing weather and wind conditions, changing track vehicle\u00a0conditions, driver variations, engine performance variation, etc., your ET will<\/em><\/strong> change slightly.<\/p>\n

For things\u00a0you can control, you want to\u00a0keep the car as consistent as possible.\u00a0 That’s why this class is almost exclusively automatics.\u00a0 There are also lots of electronic controls\u00a0to keep the\u00a0launch and shifts consistent.\u00a0\u00a0The drivers do lots of practice to hone their reaction times to be consistent on Practice Trees<\/a>.\u00a0 And Charley Downing is an\u00a0outstanding driver.<\/p>\n

For things you can not control, like weather, you want to be able to predict how these will effect the ET.\u00a0 With a couple of rain showers over the July 10-11 weekend, weather conditions were changing quickly.\u00a0 And in this sport of thousandths of a second, you need to be able to predict these changes exactly<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The Drag Race Analyzer\u00a0Pro has some very precise weather prediction capabilities, especially in the area of aerodynamics and engine performance.\u00a0 Blaine used these to his full advantage.<\/p>\n

The electronic shifter (again to obtain greater consistency) did not come together for this weekend.\u00a0 So Blaine used the Drag Race Analyzer Pro to determine which shift RPM would be best for consistency with a “human shifter”.\u00a0 He’d try a shift RPM, then try again with a certain amount of driver error in the shift RPM.\u00a0 The shift RPM which had the smallest change in ET for a given amount of error was best shift point.<\/p>\n

He has also been using our Drag Racing DataMite Data Logger<\/a> to monitor the vehicle’s launch.\u00a0 He quickly saw that their new suspension tweaks were not working and went back to\u00a0his earlier,\u00a0more predictable set up.\u00a0 \u00a0The logger also let him\u00a0 monitor temperatures to cool down to the exact same conditions for each pass, again for greater consistency.<\/p>\n

\"Blaine<\/a>
Ramey Motorsports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The car has been to the track four times now and Blaine was able to come home with a win in one of the most popular divisions. Blaine and his team beat some very stiff competition that had much more experience and funding.\u00a0 But his engineering of the situation, using Performance Trends tools, helped bring home the hardware.<\/p>\n

To quote Blaine:<\/p>\n

This was the 1st time out with your great tools and we won!<\/p>\n

– Drag Race DataMite
\n– Drag Racing Analyzer Pro – Team Engineer
\n– Weather Station<\/p>\n

The DataMite allowed me to quickly adjust the suspension to consistently launch the 1000 HP Cobra Jet on a very slippery track. Using the weather station and Drag Racing Analyzer I was able to predict vehicle performance to 0.005 seconds.\u00a0 This was crucial since we had to contend with constantly changing weather conditions.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your support
\nBlaine Ramey<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Ramey Motorsports!<\/p>\n

\"Ramey<\/a>
Ramey Motorsports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blaine Ramey of Ramey Motorsports is a Ford Engineer and long time friend of Performance Trends.\u00a0 Lately he’s been working with us on his 2010 Ford Cobra Jet Mustang.\u00a0 In just their 4th outing, they won their NHRA Super Stock SSBA class (which is a Bracket Racing class) at Mid Michigan, July 11 with Charley … <\/p>\n

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