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Re: uphill/downhill

To: Dan Warner <dwarner@electrorent.com>
Subject: Re: uphill/downhill
From: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:59:45 -0400
sure makes me a fan of same day return runs... Gotta love the return run down
hill with a tail wind !  What if the return runs were scheduled at 5:00 pm or so
depending on how many cars and then just put them in impound so they can be
teched the next day and we all can leave at a normal time?
Dave

Dan Warner wrote:
> 
> It has seemed to me that most every car i have worked on went slower in the
> morning return run than they qualified
> *****************************************************************************
> ***********
> Dave's statement is true to a large extent. This is why we say that in the
> morning you are running uphill. In the old two way run days it was easier to
> visualize. Still, in these days of the same way runs we see the early morning
> runs being slower than the previous day.
> 
> For example, in 1998 we ran a 253 mile to qualify about 3 pm. The following
> morning we ran a 249 mile to complete the record, we ran around 8:15 that
> day.
> 
> Dan Warner

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