Yall ever seen a tie in bracket racing?

[DODGEMAN]

On April 5, 2009, Jeff Miles was witness to something he's never seen in drag racing before.

The owner of Carolina Dragway in Jackson, S.C., contends that his track played host to only the second known "TIE" drag race in the history of the sport and he's got the time slips to prove it.

"When I saw the win lights on both sides I thought the stupid computer had messed up," Miles said. "That was my initial thought and I did some investigation and started adding some numbers, I realized this was not something out of the norm.

"Never saw in all my years of drag racing two cars get a win light on the same run."

In the first round of BOX E.T. eliminations, Tim Owens [Hodges, S.C.] and Mark Milford [Canon, Ga.] did battle in a run that went down to the ninth number on the elapsed time and they were still tied.

Owens was dialed on a 5.01 eight-mile elapsed time while Milford was using a 6.38 dial-in. Owens had the quicker reaction with his dragster, at .014 while Milford had a respectable .023. The dragster stopped the clocks with a 5.035 elapsed time. Milford's Vega ran a 6.396. The margin of victory for both racers came up .0004.

"I just put them both in the next round," Miles admitted, choosing not to make the racers run an extra round of competition with a re-run.

Miles contacted Compulink Timing Systems founder Bob Brockmeyer and conveyed the news of the run. Brockmeyer added up the numbers and confirmed the tie at Carolina Dragway was only the second one he's experienced in his lengthy career of working with timing systems.

"He added up the numbers and it came down to .000400000 for him," Miles explained.
Miles conveyed the news to Milford and Owens, who were both equally shocked with what had transpired.

"I talked to Milford about it," Miles said. "He told me he looked over at the other lane and said, 'boy this is going to be close."

"He told me that it was so close that he was just going to stay wide open."

Milford added, "I looked at the scoreboard and my win light came on and I said, 'Alright!"

He continued, "I looked over in the other lane and said, 'Uh oh, what just happened here?"

Miles has an answer for Milford's question. Something special happened and he was privy to it. If the track owner has one regret it's that no one snapped a picture of the momentous affair.

"I asked everyone around the track but no one got a picture of it," Miles lamented. "I don't know that I could go back and make both win lights come on just to make it look good.

"I guess if I can say one thing, it's that I saw it with my own eyes and that's likely something I'll never see again."


I wondered that myself and now I know the answer!!!

[geovert]

almost a second and a half difference at lights and come down like that, man that musta been a hellava thing to see

[78luvracin]

 

[84SDIME]

that would have been pretty cool to have gotten a pic of it or even better someone shooting a video !

[Ratt]

I would have like to have been on the finish line for that one  , I have been to that track,i got to see my nova run there before i bought it,the track has a reputation called (The House of Hook) and when i was there, that is what they where doing

[Moparmajic]

I have always heard with NHRA  the computer will keep breaking it down between two cars to pick a winner

I seen a perfect run at Sikeston  about 10 years ago  on a time trail but only in one lane but anything is possible

I went to TNT in Memphis years ago to get the car ready for a Super Gas race in Al. Well already had a 9.90 dial on the car right out the trailer...
Went up for the first pass and ran a 9.90 dead on and folks went nuts from what I heard...Ran a time trial at the other track 2 weeks later and it ran a .92 out the trailer first pass.......I get lucky every so often........... 

[MR. COOL]

 moparmagic, are the using throttlestops on most of the supergas (9.90) cars

[BELL700]

I know they have a lot of money invested in those cars, but personaly I don't care for them that much. They take off like a bat out of hell and then fall on their face and then start running fast again. I guess, each to their own.

[Moparmajic]

moparmagic, are the using throttlestops on most of the supergas (9.90) cars

Mr. Cool, yes most do, they run 500 + inches up and throttle em back ,like the big MPH speeds in the traps.Most of the cars can run in the 8's and possibly high 7's. Well the news is that is hard on a big engine lugging it like that, causes them to eat head gaskets...There was an article in the National Dragster about this some time back I kind of had figured that out . Noticed a bunch of guys seemed to always be changing head gaskets....I did my stop settings different and threw a few off........Had a friend of mine out of Florence MS running an Avenger with a 524 Indy headed Big block, saw him run an 9.80 @ 165 MPH with that beast at one point meet......He had it set up to run Super Comp 8.90 class was hard on parts...

[Moparmajic]

Gents,
Here is a kicker with my car 3 speed TQ flite a 4.86 pro gear with 14/ 32/ 15 ,now just as I would cross the 1/8 mile it would go into drive...Boy this is going be fun trying to run the 1/8 again and keep the numbers in check...It may be different this time was shifting at 7800 RPM ..The new cam I am going to design will possibly dictate a 8200 or 8300 rpm..Depends on how I get the heads to flow......

[MR. COOL]

 Sounds like alot of trouble to go through. Why not 7 or 8 second all out bracket race?

[Moparmajic]

Sounds like alot of trouble to go through. Why not 7 or 8 second all out bracket race?

I may want to run Super Gas or Super Rod again at some point......I am planning on building a bracket engine possibly a 350 Mopar..Got a buddy sent me the parts left over from his small block project and I have enough stuff to build it at some point.....That one will be "John's bullet."