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Originally Posted by swamp2
Are you referring to the odd but totally traditional standard of US drag racing allowing 1 foot of travel before the timer starts? That's called a roll out and it contributes about 0.3 seconds to a faster 0-60 time. So that is not cheating it is just different standards. I don't know much about European 1/4 mi testing specs, I think they more often do 0-1000m.
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True 0-1000m is commonly used in Europe. But I do see more and more 0-400m quoted in European car magazines, which is very close to the 1/4 mile... I don't know if they use a 30cm roll out though
