rev limiter button in stock?

[Alan Roehrich]

The starting line rev limiter and the brakes must be operated as one singular device. The rev limiter cannot be released by hand, it must be released by the act of releasing the brakes with your foot.

Dan Fletcher is often seen right up to the burnout using some sort of practice tree, checking his reaction times with his hand. I've seen him doing it right before he rolls into the water in his stocker, when we were racing him. I'm betting that he makes a motion with his hand, that is actually doing nothing other than repeating a learned muscle memory response. I doubt Dan is using an illegal device, or an illegal procedure. He may even be holding a line lock button.

If you do not time the two separate motions correctly, if you are releasing the brakes with your foot, and the rev limiter with your hand, you will either have a bad reaction time, or blow the tires off the rim. It's been tried. Despite all the claims about "if you release the rev limiter with your hand, it'll make your foot come off the brake pedal, and you'll get better more consistent reaction times, the big dogs are all doing it", it simply doesn't work. Hold a big block Camaro stocker on the starting line, release the rev limiter with your hand, and wait for "the launch" to take your foot off the brake pedal.