I can't believe that Bob Lang hasn't seen this system used...he MUST be aware of it. I don't know why he would have said that Division 1 couldn't use this method, unless he's thinking that some of the tracks we race on don't have as many staging lanes. All the ones that I can remember though, Englishtown, Maple Grove, Cecil County, and Lebanon Valley (for the life of me I can't remember what the staging lanes at Atco look like, and I've never been to Virginia) there are plenty of staging lanes to pull this off. I would have to assume that Virginia does too since it's a relatively new track, and they hold a national event there.
If there are enough people interested in this, the best thing would probably be to get a bunch of racers together at a division race to voice our opinion. It's either that or we each individually call Bob.
Anyway, I'm all for the change. I don't know if this requires a poll or not to see if the majority of racers really support this, but if we don't tell Bob (as a group) he'll never know (and if it's just one or two guys that called him, he'll think it's just a couple of guys bitching).
Back to my old self...
Jason Oldfield
S/G & S/ST 1838
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