LIVE. from Richmond IHRA Div 1 Summit Pro-Am

[Mike Carr]

When I worked as announcer at our local track in 2012-2013, a driver had a quad-zero perfect reaction time (.0000) in the Friday night final, and same thing. Third amber stayed on, no red, no green. He lifted, thinking he went red, and lost. He was offered a re-run, but declined it. It might be an AccuTime thing.

[Dan Fletcher]

You're absolutely correct. It is an Accu-time thing. I just got off the phone with Skooter at IHRA and he explained it fully.

This is messed up, but you can have a .0000 red light OR green light, but in neither case will the red or green be illuminated. A .0000 RT results in the bottom yellow staying on, period. If its a "green" light, the race is on. If its a "red" light, the lucky recipient's score board will light up.

If the result was a .0000 "green", the bottom yellow staying on could clearly create an issue for either competitor. Both could make judgments or take action thinking the race was over when it wasn't. This obviously needs to be addressed (although I'm sure a .0000 RT doesn't come up too often).

With that said, this situation had ZERO bearing on our run, at least from our perspective. I can't speak for Mr. Walton, but given the outcome, I'm thinking he was OK with it. And given the multiple Scotty's he liberally distributed throughout the shutdown, I'm sure of it...

[John Beasaw III]

So a track with an Accu-time system puts the racer at the mercy of a "glitch". This should automatically justify a re-run.

Just my opinion....

[Hillarey Sloan]

Am I the only one that doesn't know what a "Scotty" is?

[MikeMoller]

Originally Posted by Hillarey Sloan

Am I the only one that doesn't know what a "Scotty" is?

No

[Michael Beard]

Someone messaged me looking for qualifying sheets. Didn't realize that MMTV didn't post them. Here 'tis....

[j gardiner]

We watched that race from the starting line and were confused by what happened we thought the red lamp had burned out. I can see that effecting the outcome of the race possibly.

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by John Beasaw III

So a track with an Accu-time system puts the racer at the mercy of a "glitch". This should automatically justify a re-run.

Just my opinion....

There is no glitch. Timing systems operate with more digits than what you are shown on the timeslip. The Accutime system operates exactly as Dan described. I'd heard about it before. Johnny Davis, the track owner, has seen it a number of times, and even standing trackside knew that Anthony was .0000 when he saw it.

I have seen a .500 red on a Compulink, which is a .49999999. Try explaining that one to the racer! That was a Bracket Finals event many years ago. We had to call Brockmeyer on that one, but he confirmed that it can happen and how/when the computer will do rounding just for the sake of the timeslip printer, but it remains < .500, and is therefore a redlight. I've also seen a .00000056 MOV in a Super Rod final round (Compulink). I can't remember the operations on how they dig into the system to reveal the additional digits, but got the information for the doing the race coverage.

Yeah, it was a very competitive weekend. I think I gave it up .000x twice (got away with it once), Jim Reynolds was .000 on me (which was the other time, so I was losing that one regardless! LOL), Zac Ross was -.0007 red to Fletcher. Anthony Walton took .000x finish on one run, gave it up .000x on another, and was .0000 on the tree once.

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[Michael Beard]

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