2011 Stock/Super Stock Rule Changes

[bill dedman]

You can't start listing advantages of slower car, faster cars, more aerodynamic cars, better hooking cars (station wagons) or cars with any number of advantages/disadvantages because there's no end to that sort of thing.

The basic truth about the current situation is that it is unfair to the first car to leave, whether it's an A Stocker or a W stocker. IF he redlights, he has just deprived the second car to leave of HIS chance to redlight... maybe worse than the other car did.

Unequal red light jeopardy.,

Can somebody who supports this arrangement tell me what is fair about this? PLEASE don't talk about clean trees, dirty trees, traction problems of high horsepower cars, or the difficulty of dialing a slow car, or "That's the way we' ve always done it.": there are enough inequities we can't do anything about, to go 'round...
Just stick to the facts about the situation I described in the paragraph I started with "The basic truth..."

I have yet to hear anyone say what is unworkable about this worse red light system

Then, there's this guy, who says: "The only way the "worse redlight rule" could work would be to completely obscure the reaction time affect on the outcome of the timed-run competition between two vehicles."

Why? The race is over before thay will see that information; how does it afffect the leave? We're talking about red lights, here.

He then, says,
"That is; to eliminate the Red light at the base of the tree, eliminate the Win light activated by a false start on the lane marquee at the Finish line, and program the computer to indicate the winner after calculating who crossed the finish line first without going under their dial, and didn't redlight worse than their competitor. The result would be all-out runs by both vehicles with the traditional top-end wha-wha of the throttle and brake-scrubbing
....more fun. "

The win light is activated when the computer decides that a worse red light has occurred. Long before the finish line is crossed...
You have taken a simple one-step change in procedure and turned it into an epic.


Why??