TruSTART looks to level the playing field.

[FireSale]

So, using a .5 lead for my example, I jump the gun by -.002 and my opponent nails the tree at .001. Does my side skip green and go right to red or do I still see a green then red in .503 when my opponent leaves? Seems to me that the tree would have to "hold" my red light until my opponent gets his green. Then the system would effect all red light starts, not just double reds.

I get that I can't sucker the faster car into giving me the win by jumping the gun by a wider margin.

Dale

[Dwight Southerland]

I agree. Hold the red and green on the starting line until both cars have left. Otherwise, the faster car could see the red in the other lane and wait.

[Jim Caughlin]

This ought to open a can of worms...

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Jim Caughlin

This ought to open a can of worms...

Oh boy. You got that right, Jim

[7423]

And we're off.......................in 3, 2, 1

[JRyan]

I thought I'd read where it said the first cars light would initially show green until the other car left. Thus leaving the faster car with the assumption that the slower car had a green light making the faster car try to cut his regular light. If that's the case I like it. But I may be in the minority I don't know.

Rick

[Rich Biebel]

Better get some popcorn for this one.....

[Herbie Null]

Just like the double break out rule, its not who breaks out first but who breaks out the most under their dial in. A double red light should be treated the same way, make it fair on both ends of the track.

[tpoh815]

Whats gonna suck is when the driver of the much slower car leaves the line thinking he
"killed the tree" only to find out he was -.0001 red 3 seconds later. Like a fart with lumps its the true definition of surprise.

[Michael Beard]

While it does happen, the instances of both drivers red-lighting aren't super frequent. On top of that, the majority of races will have close enough handicaps that the red-light would be displayed (if applicable) before the slower car even got to the 60'. Stock is an outlier anymore, with larger handicaps than we see in most bracket racing these days.

The rule certainly makes sense for Box classes, since both drivers are reacting to the same light, at the same time. For bottom-bulb racing, I'm ambivalent towards the idea. As long as I know what the rules of the playground are, and they're the same for everybody, I'm happy to play on it.

I applaud Peter & Kyle being able to accomplish what they wanted to get done. Many people had begged Compulink for years to implement changes that would allow AutoStart to recognize Deep Staging, to no avail.