Aside from the Rolls Report, here at Buggy Alumni HQ we’re coming up with ways to feed your inner gambler. One way we’re doing this is by taking times at various spots on the course to give a cross section of team performance. Today we give you times from down in the chute: transistion to chute flag, chute flag to window 0, and a ratio of the first time over the second time. We recorded as many times as our crude stopwatches would let us. Here’s today’s sampling. It was a pretty slow day overall, with SDC and PiKA well off the pace.
The ratio is a number we’re throwing out there to give some idea of how well the buggy maintains its speed in the turn. For example, Mirage came into the chute flag nearly 0.8 s faster than Psychosis, yet Mirage had only a 0.3 s advantage after the chute. Where’d the half second go?
Tomorrow we’ll be looking at a different part of the course.
SigNu, New buggy!!!!! Where are the photos?
If I get out of bed in future weeks, I could be convinced to time something.
Is the point you’re calling the chute flag the same for all teams, or does it vary depending on where each team places it’s flagger?
Let’s say the times are within a few tenths of being right.
http://cmubuggy.org/Forum/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=1394 is the new Zoo buggy Bordick. Pretty sure.
I looked at the 200 race day video and got around 12.5 seconds for the fastest chute flag to window 0 time. So todays quickest were reasonably fast.
that should read 2008 race day video
So any info from Sunday’s (3/22) rolls?