Qualifying 1
Wayne studied the data and predicted the car was going to run 7.64 and Brad ran 7.67, 3 hundredths of a second over dial in was good enough for second place in Q1.
Wayne studies previous runs, track temperature, tyre temperature, air density, humidity, ambient temperature and the time of day, and after every run the car’s data is downloaded and analysed, these all have a bearing on how the car runs so there is quite a lot of science goes into the dial in prediction.
Qualifying 2
Wayne studied the data and predicted the car would run 7.64 and Brad actually ran 7.6543, almost 1.43 hundredths of a second over the dial in, this was with a terminal speed of 174mph and was good enough to put Brad into the number one spot.
Unfortunately before we could get Brad’s 3rd qualifying run it started to rain, in fact it hail stoned!
Every time the track crew got the track dry and ready to qualify on it rained again so eventually at 4.30 the day’s racing was abandoned.