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      02-02-2020, 05:14 AM   #42
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Originally Posted by onfireX5 View Post
I bought the Motortrend app a few years ago to watch "The Greatest Drag Race". Then found out it was staged to finish with numbers obtained from single passes from a prepped drag strip. AWD leaps ahead, then let off the gas to let others catch up per drag strip single pass results. MT even admitted it was staged for safety and problems getting a clean launch with that many cars at one time. They have not commented on last/this years 1/2 mile run. Not sure if it is single staged or actually multiples.
This highlights why people shouldn't put so much stock on recorded times, especially for high powered RWD cars. As in my own F80 6MT, launching "hard" is difficult. Even with some lucky, well applied, clutch/throttle modulation, I found my 60' times to be terrible, even when compared to my previous stock 335xi 6MT. Taking one quality launch and using that time misses the reality of a "drag race".
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