Interesting Tree Malfunction

[Bob Pagano]

Terry, You are right on.....red light button were a fact at some tracks, Cayuga had one for sure and I was told that by a number of Canadian's that ran there back in the day.

[cujo3116]

It was a computer malfunction, we had that up at grand bend motorplex 2 weekends ago. The tree was random, sometimes it would stop in the middle and have both red lights come on (then proceed to to have the cars run .500 -1.00 seconds slow) this was during eliminations. Other times it wouldnt start at all, but every time the red lights came on with both cars having never moved an inch.

The track changed everything they could to get rid of the bug (even used back up tree and spare timing computer) and still the malfunction occured.

The reason this all happened was 2 weeks ago we had a series of storms run through north america and somewhere between 15-20 drag strips had lightning strikes that hurt their timing sytems. Our track operator at Grand Bend was on the phone at one point for 50 minutes waiting in line to get technical help with getting our timing system up and running again. Thats how many tracks had problems all at once.


Andrew

[Carl Weisinger]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

This might sound out of this world for some of you with todays computerized electronics but maybe they have a "Red Light Button" (yes it was for real....I knew the guy who ran it in the tower) like the one they had at Aquasco Speedway in Md. back in the 60's ? If you were not one of the "Boys" and you ran a track hero or got to the final you somehow red lighted. It was done back in the day before electronics became more sophisticated so whos to say it isnt being done today with current technology. How can a racer even know or fight it ?

So it is you that came up with the "Tower Power" T-Shirts !

[Doug McCue]

Wonder if this will happen during the mile high nationals?

[Ed Wright]

Red Light Button?
Oh Crap! I hear another black helicopter!! Lmao

[sparago girls]

We have had this happen many times with our junior. We've been told that it is the car "rolling back" ever so slightly out of the beams. It usually happens when the car is staged very shallow. We always know when "it" happens because the et's are off by the amount of the red-light.

Many tracks now use "stage -lock" because it prevents this from happening. We have never had it happen at a track with "stage-lock". I'd be willing to bet that Bandimere doesn't have it.

I don't really think it is a computer malfunction.

[Michael Beard]

I've heard of Juniors rocking back when the driver stabs the gas.

Seems to me that Stage-Lok is a bandaid. You may not go red, but if the car did move back and Stage-Lok is the only thing that kept the beam lit, you'd be late and fast from the increased rollout, even if not by much. I'd prefer to see drivers have to stage their cars as necessary. If you've got a problem with the car rocking... best fix the problem.

$.02,

[The Hawk]

Originally Posted by sparago girls

We have had this happen many times with our junior. We've been told that it is the car "rolling back" ever so slightly out of the beams. It usually happens when the car is staged very shallow. We always know when "it" happens because the et's are off by the amount of the red-light.

Many tracks now use "stage -lock" because it prevents this from happening. We have never had it happen at a track with "stage-lock". I'd be willing to bet that Bandimere doesn't have it.

I don't really think it is a computer malfunction.

I don`t think a footbrake car on the 2 Step could roll back. A transbrake car could.