[Yetiman]

I bought a GTech Pro, and it helped immensly, especially with my 60' times.

As Matt said, do a roll away "street light" start. This means you will leave the line from idle and feather the accelerator. The goal is to work the gas pedal trying to maintain as much traction as you can until the car is accelerating down the track with full traction. (I can get a repeatable 1.8 60' times on lousy BF T/As doing this.) This is pretty much what I do both with the Hoosier TD's and Yokohama's (neither of which are good drag tires). I found I am the fastest when I let them spin just a small bit, right on the edge.

I am a huge fan of the S4. I talked my sister (who used to have no interest in cars at all) into buying an A4 several years ago. She turned into a much better driver, even doing two autocross instruction days in it. After the A4 got hit while parked she replaced it with an S4 Avant which she LOVES.