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Originally Posted by Bruce Noland View Post
Doesn't seem like such a big problem and hardly worth the fuss.
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Conversely, one could argue that since it's such a small percentage, why would anyone have a problem with the change? (The answer is actually one 99% of people have ignored: the cost Compulink would charge every track for the upgrade.)
For the record, I don't really care that much either way. As long as I know what the rules are when I pull in the gate, and everybody's playing by the same rules, it's fine.
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Originally Posted by Larry Hill
The red light needs to happen in real time without delay. If I go red I want to know so I can do something positive on the run: 1. save my equipment for the next heads-up run where the worst red light looses, 2. manage averages for the AHFS, 3. test, and 4. practice driving the stripe.
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If you are the faster car, your red light would display instantly.
If you are the slower car, your red light would display when the faster car left. In the 'Cuda, in a worst case scenario against the fastest Factory car, this would be ~1.7 seconds into the run: just after pulling 2nd gear/just after the 60'. I'm pretty sure you don't want to lift when you're in the middle of a wheelstand.
In your really worst case scenario of driving The Truck vs the fastest Factory car, it would be less than 4.5 seconds into the run, which would be before the 330'.
I would hope that under current circumstances, you do not idle down the track after redlighting, holding up the show and burning down the pair of racers behind you.
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Crosstalk is that electronic deep staging and how is that a .5 tree?
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There's so much wrong with that sentence that I'm just going to assume it was in jest.
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On the flip side a slow car, now knowing that his chances of losing on the starting line have decreased, might try to hit the tree a little harder
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No one is going to try to risk a redlight knowing their odds of winning a double-redlight have increased by 0.5 - 1.5%.
I attack the tree the same every time, regardless of whether I'm the fast car, the slow car, my opponent is red or green, etc. If I had a heads-up where I had the guy covered by half a second, I might set up .030. Do the same thing at the same time the same way every time. The idea that someone is going to "try harder" or will "back off" in any other situation reveals not having a good, consistent spot on the tree in the first place.