Originally Posted by Toby Lang (Post 255550)

Sure, why not? The faster car should always assume the slower car is going to go green, shouldn't they? Then if the slower car does go red they get a bonus, plus a good practice shot at the tree without the red light distracting them.

Or do you think the faster car should always hope the slower car will go red and check to make sure they don't before concentrating on their side of the tree?


-Toby

Originally Posted by bill dedman (Post 255520)

Additionally, it is a losing battle to try to assess "advantages" like a "clean tree" that will come into play because there is a never-ending list of advantages/disadvantages to running ANY car (slow cars are affected by the weather and wind, more than faster cars; faster cars have traction problems that slower cars don't have) etc., etc., etc....

You just can't legislate advantages/disadvantages, so we need to go with the program that gives an advantage to NOBODY... the worse red light system.

Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes (Post 254897)

I have said before that i am not opposed to it, really don't care one way or the other. .

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez (Post 255574)

Toby I just think that we should all just go out there and race.If we go red then we just pack up and try to do better next time.This thread is all bull$hit.A waste of time, more that we devote to find ways to be out there racing and maybe working to make useful inprovements towards S/SS racing.

Originally Posted by Bob Mulry (Post 255566)

So let me see if I have this right.......

If a P/SA with a dial in of 12.70 races an M/SA car with 12.17 dial in the M/SA car is likely to spin the tires because it is the faster of the 2 cars???????????

And on the other hand

It would always make more sense to dial in slower than the car you are racing so that you can leave first and reduce the possibility of tire spin

Makes sense to me,
Bob]

I can't believe that you guys just don’t get it........

This has nothing to do with an A/SA car vs. an M/SA car.

This entire issue is about the car that leaves last can't red-light if the first leaving car goes red...

It's not about a 10 second car vs. a 13 second car, it's about 10.20 vs. a 10.00 car.

It's about a 12.50 car racing 13.00 second car..

It's about a 14.10 car vs. 14.15 car..

If you get it you get....if you don't you don't

Bob

PS: Bill everybody is saying that the first car to leave has a greater chance to spin the tires.........Sooooooooooo don't leave first and you are safe.

Just my humor, but I guess I missed...

Originally Posted by bill dedman (Post 255515)

If that's all it takes to lose you, you weren't very convinced in the first place.

Is BIMBO your real name?

Originally Posted by Bimbo Jones (Post 255607)

I just don't have a dog in this hunt at the present. But if I did I thought Steve Taylor was correct and the WRLR should diffenently be used in S/P Electronics. And if it is well received there then we wouldn't be having this debate.
BTW, Bimbo is a nickname I got growing up in Ark.

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN (Post 255647)

All this arguing is a waste of time. The REAL problem is how are you going to afford the gas or diesel to get to a race in the future. Its already $4.15 for diesel and $3.92 for gas here in the center of Florida. Its supposed to be $6 a gallon for gas and diesel will be even higher by mid summer. Diesel is the same crap you guys in the north heat your homes with minus the road use taxes. It wont be long until no one will be going to the races and the tracks will go out of business. The only ones showing up to a race will be those who have more money than brains. Do you think the tracks (bracket races, NHRA or IHRA events ) will keep paying the purses when only 5 to 10 cars show up. The cost of eating is rising. Now I know some on here have all the money in the world to pay for your toys but not all of us are in that position. Give this red light deal a rest until some of the other problems with this country are fixed.