Salt time is valuable and getting hard to come by so being half way prepared can secure that record. you never know when the rain will come.
Jon
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When the time comes, you need to be ready enough to roll up to the line, and run a speed/time that is in your "ballpark". Otherwise you are just wasting your (probably limited) resources. Small changes or tuning to equal/exceed your class record can then be implemented.
That, in a nutshell, is the whole point of "planning".
BTW, "implementation" infers the execution of a decision or plan. Those who "fail to plan", simply "plan to fail". (W. Churchill) The
BEST race teams I'm aware of:
PLAN OBSESSIVELY . . . . go figure . . . . .
Pro teams that run less than competitively "right off the trailer" spend their race weekends playing "catch up". Trust me, nobody on those teams is happy about it . . . . . . especially if . . .
What say you Krusty?
Fordboy