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Tough Tracks: Using The Tools At Hand To Get Down Any Surface

Drag strips dot the landscape of the United States — North to South and East to West. Most drag racers can get to a drag strip within a couple hours drive. But is the nearest strip offering track conditions suitable to lay down some solid numbers, and do it consistently? The truth is, going out […]

Track Meter And How It’s Changing a Crew Chief’s Tune

Over the last decade and change, our sport has witnessed an incredible progression of technology in every facet of race car design that’s not only delivered previously unimaginable levels of performance, but innovative new measures to control and harness this newfound horsepower to get it down the race track. But producing and even managing power […]

TJ: I AM VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN DRIVING

Tommy Johnson Jr., with his Track Meter track surface analyzer under one arm and writing pad in the other, walked out to the starting line. In his ear, an earpiece, and a microphone attached to his lapel, connects him with the Don Schumacher Racing crew chiefs back in the pits. Johnson relays his data back […]

Forums: NHRA (John Force Team) using some type of durometer at the track?

So just prior to any Team Force car running at the Summit Nationals this past weekend one of the crew members would walk out onto the starting line with this funky piece of equipment. None of the other teams were using one of these either… It was “L” shaped with a couple of wings on […]

Video: About the TrackMeter

Gain some insight about the TrackMeter with Car Chief, Larry Wolyniec.

A Consistent Measurement of Track Conditions

So I am sitting on the wall at US 131 in Martin Michigan for the ADRL race, waiting for a small clean up on track from some fluids. I see Extreme 10.5 racer Spiro Pappas and tuning guru Don Bailey walk out on the track with some contraption in hand. Spiro plops the device on […]

Gauging Traction: New Tool to Judge Track Conditions

You may have been noticing a new and revolutionary tool being used by fuel car teams on the track’s surface this year. Starting nearly for years ago, Bill Miller Engineering’s Eddie Litke stop being one of those crew chiefs that relied on foot power to gauge horsepower. Instead he started using a tool to gain […]

Tracking Traction

Since the advent of drag racing, one of the most effective ways to gauge condition of the quarter-mile drag strip has always been the seat of the foot – not always the seat of the pants! Crew chiefs and team members regularly walk the quarter-mile before their sessions to gauge the surface traction and to […]