[Billy Nees]

[QUOTE=bill dedman;158823]Alan, Mike, and Ed, I'll give it up when any one of the three of you can give me a logical reason why it should NOT be changed.

I have never heard one... and, I'm waiting.

Bill Dedman, I'm not Alan, Mike or Ed but I've got a little bit of experience with being the "slow" car so I'd like to take a "logical" crack at it if you don't mind me playing.
The way I look at it I'm taking the risk of being the first one to foul but I'm gaining a "clean" look at the tree and the track. Now before you go questioning what the track has to do with it let me finish. One of the better racers in my division would almost always have a terrible (.100+) light against me and knowing that he's better than that I asked him about it and was very suprised by his answer. He told me that my car is always passing behind the tree just as his tree is coming down and it distracts the "hell" out of him. I'll take that advantage.
Now I've got the advantage of a clean tree, distracting my opponent by passing through his field of vision AND if the spot is long enough, I get to watch your light. Now I can't tell you if your light is a .000 or an .020 but I can tell you if you had a good one or a bad one and that just might help me at the finish line.
Now I've gone and given up all of my secrets (almost)
That's as "logical" as it gets Bill.