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Originally Posted by rognelson777
Mike, it looks like you have a lot of data from these events. If this data is available, Could you compare just the races that had less than a .500 handicap? The reason I ask this is any race that has more than a .500 handicap, the faster racer has the opportunity to leave late or never leave, because he can see the Red before the last yellow goes off, so that data is flawed.
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I ran the stats for last year's Spring Fling at Bristol. 15 occurrences over 1178 pairs. (1.27%) Only one of those pairs had a handicap of more than half a second, so the redlight would typically be displayed by the time the slower car made it to the tree. That was a Box class, so both drivers are leaving off of the same bulb at the same time. These stats are consistent with what I found with three other events. As I stated in my previous stats post, the majority of the instances were handicaps of less than .500. Footbrake has a very slightly higher incident rate, and the handicaps are sometimes longer.
You can find stats on events at
http://dragstory.com/forum/index.php Select a race, select a day/class, do a Find (Ctrl-f) on "-.", and it will highlight all of the redlights on the page.