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Originally Posted by GregWeld
In my book - if your car runs 14's or 15's -- then maybe you could call it by the law of large numbers - because who cares... but when you start dipping into the 10's or 9's... each 10th becomes harder to get...
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and that's the exact reason why I agree with the others that wether it's a 9.0 or a 9.99, it's still "running 9's". some might say that they ran a nine with an eight (9.8x), or if they are solidly into the nines, they might just say they ran a five three (meaning a 9.53) or something like that.
in drag racing, that's the way it's usually referred to. if you remember the first time someone broke the five second barrier, they said that they were now running four seconds, not 4.99 or 4.98, they said four seconds. it's just the way drag racing is. once you break the actual barrier of 12, 10, 9, 8, etc, etc, you have now earned the opportunity to say that you ran the next lowest number. it's the way the whole sport does it, but I guess this would be the wrong site to really get into this conversation
