worst red light debate, again!

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Bob Mulry

Hi All,

When I started Drag Racing, both drivers got a "clean" flagman.

If it wasn't a heads up race the slower car, got their spot and moved down the track and sometimes got to race for 1200'.

The poor flagman was sometimes 100' down track...

We didn't have any other way to have a handicap start....

We have come a long way in the last 50 years...so why not take the final step and fix rule by making it just like ALL of the other rules in drag racing "first or worst"

Bob

Bob.I didn't race back then but I remember Garlits say in a tape that the knowledgeable racers then would watch the starters elbow for a slight advantage of knowing when the arm was going to move.I guess that would cancel what you would call a "clean" flag.:>):>):>)