[Dan Fletcher]

You're absolutely correct. It is an Accu-time thing. I just got off the phone with Skooter at IHRA and he explained it fully.

This is messed up, but you can have a .0000 red light OR green light, but in neither case will the red or green be illuminated. A .0000 RT results in the bottom yellow staying on, period. If its a "green" light, the race is on. If its a "red" light, the lucky recipient's score board will light up.

If the result was a .0000 "green", the bottom yellow staying on could clearly create an issue for either competitor. Both could make judgments or take action thinking the race was over when it wasn't. This obviously needs to be addressed (although I'm sure a .0000 RT doesn't come up too often).

With that said, this situation had ZERO bearing on our run, at least from our perspective. I can't speak for Mr. Walton, but given the outcome, I'm thinking he was OK with it. And given the multiple Scotty's he liberally distributed throughout the shutdown, I'm sure of it...