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Finally a good starting gate! - rocco79 - 03-30-2006
I havent noticed that . Sometimes though its hard to see a green light turn on when your looking to drive to the right when the light is on the left
Finally a good starting gate! - DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 - 03-30-2006
Light? what light? I watch the first guy...when he goes, I go.
Finally a good starting gate! - rocco79 - 03-30-2006
Thats why your getting rear ended dave ... The guy behing you has the RIGHT to go when the green light goes on or he hears the worg " GO"! I in no way condone (sp?) ruff driving but maybe you just need to be more aggresive on the start.
Finally a good starting gate! - DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 - 03-30-2006
I was kiddin'...I go on the yellow light. Green light, yeah, green light. I gotta get out there more often....
Finally a good starting gate! - rocco79 - 03-30-2006
sorry couldnt pick up the sarcasm
Finally a good starting gate! - satoch - 03-30-2006
I can't see my car past the Rocco's ass on the far side of the track! LOL!! J/K Rocco, butt seriously (pun intended), the guys collective asses should be facing the wall not the driver's stand.
I just don't see how anyone can argue with this type of a starting gate design. It's probably just me. Wait until Sonny proposes it, like the numbered cones, and it'll be like a revelation from God.
Finally a good starting gate! - DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 - 03-30-2006
:popcorn:
Finally a good starting gate! - rocco79 - 03-30-2006
Bruce nobody can see there car past your gianormus head.... Ha. ( Thats it im going on a F'in diet! LOL!)
Finally a good starting gate! - Czech-it-Out Graphics - 03-30-2006
hmm what did rocco edit out???? LOL
That does look like a pretty good design...
Finally a good starting gate! - rocco79 - 03-31-2006
wouldnt you like too know
Finally a good starting gate! - Czech-it-Out Graphics - 03-31-2006
zing....
Finally a good starting gate! - rocco79 - 03-31-2006
Maybe it was nice.......
Finally a good starting gate! - cemeb4dk - 03-31-2006
Best gate is no gate in my opinion.
Finally a good starting gate! - rocco79 - 03-31-2006
i agree
Finally a good starting gate! - Michowski - 03-31-2006
agree and im still curious to what rocco said.
Finally a good starting gate! - rocco79 - 03-31-2006
ts wasnt anything bad
Finally a good starting gate! - GWPHOENIX - 03-31-2006
i'm kinda wondering,exactly how many of you have ben to a race that used a starting gate and which kind was it? i see coments about no gate is a good gate but have you even tryed them? i never have so i'm just interested in why you say gates are bad?
Finally a good starting gate! - cemeb4dk - 03-31-2006
With a starting gate, you have 10-12 vehicles inches apart from each other gunning their engines, then all at once the gate drops, and the wheels are spinning so fast before they drop then when they drop they always never hold their line and one bumps into another and so the end result mass chaos. I also dont like the way guys try to cheat and put there buggy as far forward as they can so in other words almost giving a half car lead.
Finally a good starting gate! - Eracer76 - 03-31-2006
cemeb4dk Wrote:With a starting gate, you have 10-12 vehicles inches apart from each other gunning their engines, then all at once the gate drops, and the wheels are spinning so fast before they drop then when they drop they always never hold their line and one bumps into another and so the end result mass chaos. I also dont like the way guys try to cheat and put there buggy as far forward as they can so in other words almost giving a half car lead.
Did you not watcht the video?
The gate in the video is nothing like that.
Finally a good starting gate! - cemeb4dk - 03-31-2006
He asked about experiences with gates! I have no experience with the one in the video, so I cant't comment on that one.
Finally a good starting gate! - Eracer76 - 03-31-2006
Sorry, I didnt know you were talking about your experience with gates in that post.
The gate in the video though, IMO is great!
No one can cheat or slam into you on the start. That and the pit guys cant mess up and or cheat buy droping the car too soon, causing the whole pile up.
Finally a good starting gate! - GWPHOENIX - 03-31-2006
i have seen 2 different gates on videos. one posted here and another that drops all at once in a line.
i can see how the latter would suck and cause pileups in the first turns,but the one shown here seems to help the posibility of pileups.
CEOMEB4DK
which gate did you race on and how was it and what efects idi it cause?
Finally a good starting gate! - cemeb4dk - 03-31-2006
The one in the video looks good, but I wouldnt hold my breathe for one anytime soon at any of the local tracks. Plus that does away with the holeshot award. Teh hole shot is always fun to watch especially round 2 last year in umt when JT's lsp shot about 15 feet up in the air... LOL
Finally a good starting gate! - cemeb4dk - 03-31-2006
I have raced on one at FHF and round 2 and 3 of the pro series last year, the effects where in my post above.
** References available upon request...LOL
Finally a good starting gate! - Michowski - 03-31-2006
any way you look at it theres goign to be somthing flawed. Like Rocco said earlier, if you are in the 12th position, by the time your gate dropped to let you go the leader would most likely be lapping or you just about to. A lot more cleaner racing at the start but very boring and easy to predict who wins if its a good driver.