2014 Ultimate 1 Ton Challenge results

bobx2 wrote:

My take on it is that they wanted to take out the arguing over who had an advantage because of, well, anything that would be an advantage, such as different gearing. They made it as heads up as possible for equal testing.

I agree that was the intent, but when you have different transmissions it doesn't work out that way. The Ford trans with 3.73's is lower than the Ram Aisin would be with 4.10's in all but 1st and 6th.. so it's not really as fair as it looks.

Just an observation and I think the GCWR's where all close enough that it was a fair test.

I would have liked to see a rolling acceleration. I also would have like to see the hill climb at a moving, say 65 mph vs a stopped start at the on-ramp. Not sure what the outcome would be, if any different, but that's a more realistic test IMHO.

I also would have liked to see mileage data for the entire trip, run the trucks a mile or two apart and give the entire report.