Without question, the issue of reaction time is an important part of drag racing in every category. Many people's problems arise from over-simplifying the fairly complex issue of RT. Most people do not fully understand how the human mind and body react to outside stimuli. They simply don't know how their body and mind work. A racer knows it would be hard to adjust a race car if he or she didn't know how the car worked. The same thing applies to your mind and body. How can you improve your mental and physical skills if you don't know how your mind and body work?
At Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School Reaction Time Clinics we teach you the psychological and physiological aspects of mind and body that will enable you to improve both your reaction time and consistency.
Our Reaction Time Clinics don't just stop there.
We also give you information on how your car responds to the timing system. Do you know what the third beam is on the starting line? Do you understand rollout distance as it is related to stage position, physical rollout of the car, and how the actual rollout distance is affected by the trajectory of your car on the launch? Do you know how all of this affects your RTs and ETs? If you don't fully understand this and more, you are at a disadvantage every time you go to the starting line. At our Reaction Time Clinic we will teach you this and more.
Your car may be fast and you feel like you're on time, but you still have poor or inconsistent RTs. Why? It may be your car. Like you, your car has a reaction time, and it's not related to its acceleration. We will explain this and we will measure your car's reaction time as a separate number from the driver reaction time. You will be able to stop blaming yourself if it's your car that doesn't react.
How do we do all this?
We use the revolutionary DRT System developed by Frank Hawley and Bob Brockmeyer, the developer of the Compulink timing system. With the DRT System we install a device on your car that sends a signal directly to the track's timing system. This gives you an accurate measure of the driver's reaction time from the time the driver sees the light and tells the car to go and the car's reaction time from the time it was told to go until it actually leaves the stage beam.
If RTs are inconsistent you will be able to determine if it is the driver or the car that is really inconsistent. If RTs are slow you will be able to see if it is the driver or the car that is slow. And if your RTs are consistent and fast, the driver can then fine tune both to be even better. |
