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Originally Posted by adam woodmancy
You should’ve watched World Footbrake Challenge at Bristol on live feed last weekend. They were laying down packages like it was the million.
And it can be done.. footbraking in an 11 second street car with flip flops and Bermuda shorts on if you know what your doing. The best they can go with those boxes is double 0 and dead on, and I can do that with my feet. Not as consistently as I did in my super pro days, I’ll grant you that, but if you get hot, it just takes a few pieces to fall in place. One lucky round here or there. Box guys get soft against us foot brakers.. they get afraid to go red so they click a few thou in they normally wouldn’t and leave the door open.
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One of the best racers ever at our track was a foot brake guy. He had a Vega with big tires and a 3 link. sbc with less than 500HP. So it would never spin, light, great 60 foots. Car ran just over 10 flat. Good luck trying to beat him. He used the visor and just used the bottom bulb, leaned his head back so that was all he saw. Under .010 all the tame and ran withing .02 of his dial all the time.
He sent so many out of town folks with delay boxes home it was not funny.
I won just as much foot braking it. Its a whole different deal. My T brake broke last year and I finished the weekend foot braking. Fish out of water by now.
There are many, many real fast cars a whole lot nicer than mine that have not won even half as much as me.
But George will tell you they are all amateurs to take away what I have done.
George and Stan are still posers. Just because you raced your wife's 'street car a few times down the track does not make you "a racer for life".
And plenty of people are racers that dont even race or own a car. They live the life. Build engines, port heads ect.