Interesting Commentary - why does it takes longer ....

[James Perrone]

Originally Posted by RobbieRacer

Allow Deep staging and use a .5 pro tree for everyone.It would make things interesting for sure.

stick to bracket racing DEEP STAGING IS A CRUTCH .
Learn how to race the right way 2 stage bulb on Dream on
I like the way it is GO DEEP GO HOME red light
Adjust the rules for a few blah blah

[RobbieRacer]

I don't deep stage. Other people like to. It's only an option. Geez
be a little more open minded.

Originally Posted by James Perrone

stick to bracket racing DEEP STAGING IS A CRUTCH .
Learn how to race the right way 2 stage bulb on Dream on
I like the way it is GO DEEP GO HOME red light
Adjust the rules for a few blah blah

[Jeff Stout]

I was race director at the old Speedworld in AZ. We had a 3 day Jr dragster event that all employees regretted doing because of it being dragged out way to long. On Friday I watched and put rounds on a stop watch and 1 pair of cars were taking 1 minute and 20 seconds to start to finish. It really was ridiculous. On Saturday we had a driver/parent meeting. I described what was going on with each pair which was the pair in the water box was watching the entire race before them before starting their cars in water box. I asked for a vote in which the pair in front of them pre-staged then the cars in the water box had to start engines. The vote won by majority. Now through out the day I would run the rounds on a clock and we were down to 50 seconds start to finish per pair. It was a total success and made the race get over in time and nobody was in a rush and safety was not compromised. I guess what I'm saying is if change needs to happen to speed up program then let the race director know or sanctioning body know. It can improve if wanted.

[Michael Beard]

"Deep Staging" is the name of John D's column in the magazine. It has nothing to do with the content of the editorial, which is time management.

At Loose Rocker Promotions, we pride ourselves on time management. The two biggest factors are 1) having cars in the lanes and 2) time between the burnout box and the starting line. We have finished a race with 416 entries, 1 time trial, 1 round of re-entry style buybacks in just over 14 hours, including having dragsters, double-entries, late-round cooldown, talking splits, and any breakage, track prep, or other downtime, etc.

Big props to Jeff Stout! That's how you do it!