Just realized through a first time personal experience that one can cross the finish line 1st, without redlighting or running under his dial-in, and still lose. As simple as it may be to others, I have a mental block on it and still don't understand it totally, but thought I'd post this up to help anyone with any questions on the subject of bracket racing. The winner is decided by who's closer to a perfect run, taking the elapsed time/dial-in and reaction time into consideration.

--------------------------------ME-----HIM
reaction time-------------------.069----.115
sec. over dial-in----------------.122----.063
total over perfect run-----------.191----.178

He was .013 closer than I to a perfect run so he won.

 

LOL...yeah i did that once and was like WTF is that BS

 

Yeah, having an auto would help out soooooo much at the track. Second time that sumbitch has beaten me w/ his auto Z28. I prefer racing slower cars, but he's more consistent. Something funny though...the round before me and a track buddy w/ a CO Mach got paired up. An orange and a yellow mach in eliminations, it looked like a damn rainbow on the starting line.

 

lol...it just takes time and practice for that kinda stuff

 

The winner is decided by who get to the finish line first with out breaking out. So you treed him and he ran closer to his dial in and caught an passed you.
You treed him by .046 he ran closer to his dial in by .059. You lost by .013
so he got there first

 

It should be whoever crosses the line first. That is the point of bracket racing. Both cars leave at different times based on their dial ins and then whoever crosses the line without breaking out wins. That is why reaction time is so important.

 

You have it backwards. He was the slower car and left well ahead of me. I caught, passed, and beat him to the line by about 20 feet and lost. That was my whole point.

 

That is EXACTLY what I've always known and what I was saying to others when I got back! I've been around bracket racing for 20 years so I felt like an absolute dummy asking others about it.

 

Then you broke out you ran faster than your dial in. Hard to tell who was the slower car you didnt post the et's or the dial ins.

 

Nope, no break out. The .122 sec. over my dial was a 13.472 on a 13.35 dial in. The .063 over his dial was a 14.063 on a 14.00 dial. I'm really beginning to think the timing sensors may have goofed and not registered my car when I went through the beams, but not drawing any conclusions yet. I'd consider second guessing myself if I thought I beat him to the line by 5 feet, but I'm sure it was around 20 feet so I feel comfortable with my argument, especially because I've talked to people in the past who swore up and down the same damn thing happened to them...and ofcourse I told them they didn't cross the line first. I think talking to the dude I raced might shed some light.