I broke your quote into two parts.
The nuance of MPH vs E/T is that they generally move in opposite directions. But yeah, a video of the runs would be very telling about what actually happened. The higher 60' could be that the driver was launching softer because he didn't want to spin. While it may have been slower getting to the 60' trap, he ultimately made better use of the track and ultimately a better MPH.
The other part is that these cars weakness has been in the last 1/8th mile. Most ICE cars that trap anywhere close to low 11's are trapping above 120 MPH. Whereas, our cars are hitting a power wall somewhere before the 1/8th mile after a positively heroic launch. Almost every racing video against a Model S shows the competition rapidly catching up after being blown away off the line. What I am thinking here is that the added power is manifesting later in the track and has little impact on the launch itself. What I would love to see is a full datalog off a dragstrip run, all the way to the 1/4 mile.
We're thinking mostly the same way with one difference.
I'd agree the weakness of these cars is what we refer to in ICE vehicles as "top end". These cars have no real top end to speak of for as quick as they are down the track.
However here is where we might differ.
Notice his state of charge for the two passes.
Also notice the very late reaction time of the one pass. He may have been using the launch control for that pass. If he was launching softer on the 1.701 60ft time, then it only got him .036 seconds improvement in the 1/4 over the first pass.
However assuming that he was launching just as hard for both passes, then the slightly higher SOC, got him a worse 60ft time than a SOC which was just 4% "worse".
Furthermore, while we don't know the track conditions, his 60ft times are nowhere close to some of the best ones we've seen in here which have been in the 1.57 -1.58 range.
It could turn out that with the additional power, assuming that there is an increase of the magnitude that some of us believe, i.e. 50-60hp or more, then it very well could be that it is now harder to get the increased power to the ground on the current street tires.
However I would be the first to admit that this is all speculation. But one other point of importance, or possible importance with the 11.128 car, is that someone asked about the dash display in the other thread.
The answer given by one member as to how that display was obtained, was that the car had to be rooted in order to obtain that display.
I've asked the owner, and am waiting for him to respond as to if this is the case, and if so, has anything else been done to the car.
It would still be interesting to actually see what kinds of results one of the "freak" cars showing the 500-510KW, actually gets via Vbox, or dragstrip in the quarter.
I mentioned before that this would go a long way towards telling us if we are actually seeing what we think we're seeing with the Powertools results.
But long story short, if we are looking at as much power increase as some of us say that we are seeing, then considering the way these cars launch, it might have just become a bit harder to get the power to the ground.
That said, it's making me wonder now what the 0-60 times for these "freaks" with 50-60 more horses are now.
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