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Old 02-05-2015, 04:44 PM   #28
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Default Re: Good or Bad Idea

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Originally Posted by cgall View Post
If you start the ET clock when the light turns green you do not have a separate RT. The ET is the RT + ET. So there is no advantage to having a hard-leaving car.

Also, most new spectators believe the clock starts on green, not when the beams are broken.
Regardless how it is instituted the transbrake is always going to be the quicker reacting to any given stimulus. The current set-up makes them "guess" just like we do footbraking...to a degree.

I used to could cut .000 lights in my dually tow truck leaving on the second amber. Would freak out many beside me seeing the truck move so soon lol.
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