Ed,
In reference to your comment, "Why does everybody want to keep changing the rules?"
Keep changing the rules? KEEP CHANGING THE RULES???
This rule is FORTY SEVEN YEARS OLD!!! Has never been changed!
At the time it was instituted, there was a similar rule: "First car to 'break out' loses."
I don't know if you were racing back then, but I was.
They (NHRA) figured out how to fix that situation very quickly, and did. They probably would have fixed the first red light rule at the same time, but did not have the necessary software, yet, so they buried it . Over the years, people got used to it. I know I did. It took several hours of thinking about it (after having it explained to me by a guy who was a lot smarter than I am) for me to "get it." That's how buried in tradition, I was, But even ~I~ eventually "got it."
They had buried it by never trying to change the "so-simple-a-cave-man-can -understand-it" FIRST RED LIGHT LOSES in a handicapped race, even though the software to alleviate this obviously unfair situation has been around for years. Why? NHRA is run by a bunch of .....well, lets just say that unless it's going to benefit them, monetarily, they simply have no interest in doing it... It wasn't always that way, but it's been that way for a while.
Would you like to RETURN to the original "First Car to Break Out" system, and keep it, on the same basis that you think this red light business can continue to be swept under the carpet, under the the idiotic rationale of "That's the way it's always been???"
No.... I wouldn't think so. It's the same situation, you know... same concept.
Then, let me get this straight: you want to keep the "worst breakout loses" rule, but defy logic by NOT changing to a worst red light rule...
Explain the logic of that one for the folks, if you will, please. I know you will..... oh yes, you will!!!! It will be an explanation devoid of logic because there's only one way you operate in a scenario like this; kill the messenger! Personal attacks, snide comments about the person who disagrees with you and anything pejorative or derogatory that you think will supplant logic and an overview of sportsmanship or fairness, but that's your way of fighting the issue, if there's "no way out."
And, there's not....
I'm waiting.
