Launching

[JetBlack]

Leave on the second-to-last yellow light. If you wait for green, your reaction time will suck.

Practice to find your car's sweet spot for RPMs. Too high and you spin through first, too low and you bog ('specially with boosted cars).

Find your car's powerband and shift *after* the powerband, so your RPMs fall back into the strongest part of the powerband. I know it sounds weird, but it works great and lowers your times.

[eliteautosport.net]

its so nice the some one understands that cars have power bands..

Just like my STI when im racing i dont go all the way to the red line every gear i have shift points marked out on my gauges..

[EgDude]

i dont redline... i need my motor to last a while haha

[JetBlack]

TIP:

Your reaction time has no effect on your E.T., only whether you win or lose.

Elapsed TIme (or E.T.) starts when you cross the beams of the starting line, not when the light turns green.

E.T. stops when you cross the beam at the finish line.

Reaction Time (or R.T.) starts when the light turns green and ends when you break the beam at the starting line.

If two identical cars are racing, the race will frequently be decided by R.T. because whoever starts the race first will, all things being equal, finish first.

You can beat a faster car if he has a slow R.T..

An example is in order. If you are in a 12 second car and the light turns green but you sit there for a full minute, before launching, your Reaction Time will be 1.000 sec but your Elaspsed Time will still be 12 seconds. If you were racing a 14 second car, he would have beaten you even though your ET was two full seconds shorter.

You lost because he crossed the finish line first.

[JetBlack]

Every 1/10th of a second you can take off your 60' time (how long it takes your car to get from the starting line, to the 60 foot mark), will take approximately 2/10ths off your E.T..

Every 100 pounds you can take off the weight of your car will take about 1/10th of a second off your E.T.. That means a fat girlfriend will slow you down more than a skinny one and you can guestimate how much, by looking at her. Aim for a 1/10th girlfriend, not a 2/10ths one.

[eliteautosport.net]

and 100lbs equals to a loss of 10hp

[Domesticated]

well, my car started out at 2800 with stereo, now its at 2250 so thats around a half second. ahaha, but fuck its really getting cold. maybe ill just get the little neon a sweater for the winter