Re: LIVE from Summit Motorsports Park - D3 LODRS
 

It looks to me like, in the final, Allison's stage bulb first lit at 2:41:35, then went out, then came on for good at 2:41:39. Merkle's red light came on at 2:41:45. It seems that he should have had 4 more seconds, until 2:41:49.

In the round against Novosel, Allison's stage bulb came on at 1:35:30, and Novosel was red-lit at 1:35:41. It seems there was the full 10 seconds here.

Re: LIVE from Summit Motorsports Park - D3 LODRS
 

I believe the clock starts when three bulbs are on and does not reset if it goes back to only top bulbs lit. It looks like it was set on 10 second for automatic red. I could be wrong.

Re: LIVE from Summit Motorsports Park - D3 LODRS
 

I believe this is correct. I have seen the car that originally flickered the bulb get timed out before in this exact same scenario. Actually, he unintentionally double bulbed and backed out of stage...but the opponent was already pre-staged and bumping in so by the time the original "staged" car got his RPM's to where he wanted and started bumping, the red came on in his lane (about 10 seconds from his original staging snafu).

Re: LIVE from Summit Motorsports Park - D3 LODRS
 

There is a "Staged Minimum" setting in Autostart (typically 0.6-0.7) that prevents Autostart from being activated by just a bare flicker. If there are two pre-stage bulbs lit and one of the Stage bulbs is lit for more than the Stage Minimum time, then Autostart is active (and it does not reset if a car backs out).

Both instances were legitimate timeout redlights.