thought the feature was great. it's been awhile since i got dusty a top of section "A" but we mush remember where we are...one thing that kinda pizzed me off was in the mod feature when groomer intentionally spun the #10 of bryan barber because he was going to get beat. on top of that when he spun him he stayed in the throttle and pushed him down the track. b.s.

I grabbed these still screenshots from the jackslash coverage and thought some of you might be interested to see just how close the finish was. Lawrenceburg's start finish line is just past the flag stand and if you're sitting in the grand stands you can see it as they have painted a checkered black/white area on the wall facing the stands to indicate the line. A lot of fans (and racers) don't realize every track has their own start/finish line and you can't always judge who the winner is by assuming unless you know exactly where that track uses to determine finishes. I just thought it was interesting and thought maybe some of you would too.

Oops I attached them out of order - if you want to view in order swap the second and first pictures.

Sacha

Jon said he had to look at the footage to be sure, In Jackslash's vid, its closer than it looked from my view which was pitside of the booth and i thought TMEZ nipped him. Even the video is too close to call. Transponders have no reason to lie and are placed in the same place on every car.

.016 margin of victory! WOW.

As for Groomer, I too feel he jumped the second start every bit as much as the first and just my view, Drove into Barber.

I don't know if he cheats, its not my job to tech em. I do know hes fast at other tracks as well and the car just don't bobble. In fact the time he did bobble last night was the moment he got passed.

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Sacha, I first looked at the pics and though there was some mistake and saw no cars. The second pic if you look close shows the orange tail about a foot in front of the white tail at the beginning legs of the flag stand, The Finish line is about six feet past that painted on the stage.

Thanks Sacha.

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[/COLOR]Sacha, I first looked at the pics and though there was some mistake and saw no cars. The second pic if you look close shows the orange tail about a foot in front of the white tail at the beginning legs of the flag stand, The Finish line is about six feet past that painted on the stage.

Thanks Sacha.[/QUOTE]

Yes, when you see them in the correct order I should have posted them the first pic (second in sequence) I tried to add an arrow to show the orange tail and you can the white tail just above it further behind. The last pic shows the orange car completely out of the frame and the white 21 still in the frame. It was a lot of trial and error to catch but I thought this is a good example to show that a lot of times people "see" things differently depending on the angle you are viewing from. Most scoring towers are dead even with the start/finish line but if you are sitting sometimes just even slightly to the right or left your whole perspective can change on who was running in what position. If you had been sitting on the far right of the stands it may have looked like the 21 got there first. Even video footage can sometimes be misleading depending on the angle and position of the camera.