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Originally Posted by bill dedman
Alan; I thought you were smarter than that... I have read your many posts, and you always, before, seemed to make a lot of sense... but I am thinking now, that your logic has been short-circuited by the possibility that you run a higher-classed car that would never benefit from the level playing field that a worse red light rule will provide.
You said, "It hasn't worked? Well, I'll be damned. We haven't been racing for decades, because of the red light rule? Boy, I sure am glad all you guys came along to tell us all drag racing hasn't worked for 40 years, the rest of us would never have figured that one out."
Did I say it prevented us from racing at all???
No.
I said it didn't "work," and, it didn't... and it doesn't.
Would you like to return to "The first car to break out loses"??? That makes just as much sense...
Think about it.
What doesn't "work" about the current system is that it prevents equal red light jeopardy. The second car to leave is no longer in jeopardy of a red light, if the first car bulbs. Where is the other side of that coin???
There is none with the present system. But, this lopsided situation doesn't have to continue.
What we now have, is a system, born of necessity (in 1963) when there was no electronic capability to provide a dual reaction-timing system. That time has come and gone, and now it can be fixed by utilizing software that compares the lights (reaction times) of BOTH cars, before a red light is displayed.
People complain that it's "Just another change, and we've already had ENOUGH changes," but it's not a change that will affect anyone's driving program; nobody will be aware that it's even in place, until after both cars have left the line.
There's simply no legitimate reason NOT to change this.
But, since NHRA is what it is, and it won't make them one red cent, it will likely never happen there. I'd expect to see it in IHRA protocol before NHRA ever gets around to fixing it, so relax; your advantage is secure, for the moment.
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Bill, do you own a car? Do you drive one? Do you even work on one?
Hell, there's a possibility that I might drive a Top Fuel car. That doesn't change the way I think, either.
I don't HAVE an advantage. I raced a SLOW G/S car last year. If I drive next year, I might race something else slow.
EVERYTHING is a trade off. The faster cars have traction problems that slow cars don't have, they sit on the line a long time when racing slow cars, they don't get a clean tree when racing slower cars. They get two advantages for those three disadvantages, they chase slow cars, and they don't get the first chance to go red.
Of all the things that can be done to improve the condition of sportsman racing, if that improves it at all, that would have to be all the way at the bottom of the list. Of all the things that are wrong, the same people keep bringing up the red light thing. That's like treating a hang nail on a guy with a sucking chest wound. People need to stop growing pearls.