[Michael Beard]

Deep staging has no effect on safety. Electronics have no effect on safety. Autostart settings, first-or-worst vs worst redlight rule decisions have no effect on safety. Handicap racing versus racing off of indexes, CIC's, national records, or heads-up runs have no effect on safety. If they wanted to eliminate shift lights and tachs, they could do that, too.

They are arbitrary rules. Every sport is defined by a set of arbitrary rules.

Since it is in General Regulations, it would pertain to all categories.