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Originally Posted by reg
Sound like you are all doing good things and good things planed,i dont see it a problem in qualy the loop being in that place as you are racing your self,but in the finals if 2 cars are fighting close for position,you could have travelled further down the straight but still come 2nd,if its straight across the straight you have alot more track to fight back without both trying to be on the inside to catch the loop,
The chance this will be a problem is slim,but with the luck you chaps have had,probably better to do it once and forget about it,
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This would also depend on where your transponder is mounted compared to your competitor as well. And also how much a of a signal it is putting out.
The thing with the loop is you probably actually trigger it before you have crossed it. The field it generates is not directly between the two wires, it spreads out. I am not an electrician but I would imagine that field is not consistant along the length of the wire either. At bridgford the loop normally doesn't cross the full width of the straight but it will pick you up anywhere on the width of the straight. and sometimes if we are not careful it can pick up cars that are not on the straight but in the infield of the track.
The way the loop is set up currently it is not 45 degrees diagonally across the track, it's probable less than five degrees. I would say the finishing times it gives will be pretty accurate. Maybe not to the millionth but we only go down to thousands of a second anways. Signal strength was awesome to so I am pretty sure we won't have any missed laps from now on.
With stotfolds loop position I imagine that they will not have the computer setup to ignore the first line pass, instead it uses the minimum lap setup to not put the people who start behind the loop a lap up after the start. I personally think that ignore first line pass contributed to a few people being a lap down if they started on pole at the regional as they were already over the loop at the start of the final. Then when they came around to complete their first lap it ignored there first lap, as it was set up to do, and only started counting them on the second lap. Maybe that is something you can look at Chris?