worst red light debate, again!

[bill dedman]

Originally Posted by cicero819

Thank You to all who have participated in this question. The quality of the debate is unparalleled in the annals of class racer. My conclusions are having a clean tree negates any advantage that faster cars have over slower cars. They have to survive seeing their opponents leave first which can make them lose their concentartion. I was told when negotiating with people that it doesn't always have to be be a big WIN it can be a win win situation. You have to leave something on the table for the other person also. Claude

Claude; if you think of the first red light rule as an advantage that somehow, evens the score for fast cars, then what would you say does the same (evens the score) for the fact that the second-to-leave car gets to "drive the stripe" at the finish line from behind, while the first- to-leave is out front, where he has to turn around (lose sight of the finish line) to monitor the faster car's progress?

"Super" category racers think that is a large enough advantage (being out front) that they spend BIG BUCKS to enable themselves to do just that, so it must be worth something... A whole "cottage industry" has sprung up to manufacture active throttle stops (and another, building high horsepower engines, to play "catch-up") to facilitate this modus operandus.

What is the "slow car advantage" that negates this situation???
I can't think of one; can you?

I reiterate: You CANNOT successfully, legislate advantages into the rules; the worsae red light rule gives an advantage to NOBODY.