[bill dedman]

Thanks, Danny; that was a lot of work, and very interesting. Alan is right, though; lots of faster cars will just leave before their green light comes on if they see red in the other lane. But, we have no way of knowing how many. To my way of thinking, since nobody seems to be able to come up with a good, logical, legitimate reason NOT to change it, I'd say if it's even ONE INSTANCE of somebody losing a round to a worse red light offender, that's one too many... because it's totally unnecessary.

If you have a flawed system, you live with it if there's no way to change it (like was the case in 1963), but when a fix comes available, does it make any kind of sense NOT to fix it just because there are other, more pressing problems? Can NHRA multi-task??? Can they SINGLE-TASK??? LOL!!!

This red light rule is not an important issue on the level of the idiotic AHFS, nor the absurd horsepower factors of the blown Mustangs, and the DP cars, but it's something they could change while they're THINKING ABOUT the bigger problems.

If someone can tell me a good reason just to leave it alone, I'd sure like to hear it. So far, I haven't heard one. Of course, since this procedural change won't make NHRA a red cent, it very likely will never happen.

Thanks for listening.