[Don Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Don Morris

Bobby,
One of the fundamentals of drag racing is that you can not leave on a red light and therefore gain an advantage on your opponent. If you do, you've broken one of the basic rules in drag racing. In NHRA class racing you have committed a foul start that results in an immediate DQ. Your opponent at that moment is for all intents and purposes making a single run and is not subject to rules on redlights and breakouts. (I know you know all this)


Under the T-S system in a handicap race, if the slower car redlights he is NOT immediately DQd and can in fact win that round if the faster car redlights by a greater amount. In the case where the slower car goes on green and the faster car redlights, the faster car IS automatically DQd. If fairness is being sought using the T-S system, why does the slower car, in the last instance, get a second chance to win the round and the faster car doesn't (he's immediately DQd)? Sounds like the for-sure DQ is shifted to the faster car in a handicap race.


I'm not unloading on Bobby, it was just a place to get started.

I am against the tru start