Yep, I got 166MPH in the left lane at one stage.
No NOS, but I did race change 3rd and 4th (I didn�t do 2nd as I was losing traction) and gave it a bit more further down the track.
I really hadn't had much practice or even driving time with the car up to that day as I only just got it ready the night before and only had an hour or two sleep, so maybe I was stuffing up through 1st and 2nd up to half track, I was definitely losing up to a potential second in the first 60ft.
I also did a couple of dozen runs that day, with a GTECH on board which produced similar results, and the GTECH has never been wrong before.
http://www.ausmuscle...p?p=11547#11547Struggler, you most likely already know all this anyway, so I don't mean to bore you, but because a few other people were confused about it, I�m gonna try to explain it. So here goes�
One thing you must remember is that the increase in velocity (acceleration) is not linear, it�s a curve and it�s by no means a nice pure curve, it is in most cases an irregular curve.
More irregular due to the car being a manual and I was suffering from a fair bit of traction loss and really only managed to get the thing up to boogie after the first half of the track anyway.
If you try to think of this linearly it wont make any sense.
A simple plot of the results in Excel using its chart function gives you this:

And Excel will try its best to create a natural curve. But in the real world there are irregularities in the real curve, ie changing gear etc.
In a graph of Speed vs Time the area under the graph is always the distance, as Distance = Velocity x Time
In this graph, the pink line (the Right Lane) will have more area under it and thus to achieve its 117MPH it would have had to travel further than the blue (Left Lane)

But the real graph would be something like this, with a few points slightly shifted, because it wont be a nice perfect curve like the computer will calculate.
In which case, you�ll find that the areas under both curves will be equal and thus both cars travelled the same distance, but got there via different rates of changing speed.

Cheers,
Rick.