Stage Lock

[63corvette]

Originally Posted by Maverick

There should only be three photo-sensors at the starting line, pre-stage, stage , and over stage

There are not 3 performing the stage functions.
Only 2 photo electric cells perform the stage function. Prestage is just a warning you are near the fully stage position.
Stage lock is part of the computer program the way I understand it.
I do not like the blinking stage light and lost several times by being late or red because of it. Once in the final of a National Event due to that happening. Not my light blinking, just being thrown off by it. I can not ever remember blinking my stage light in 30 plus years of doing this.
Once the fully staged light comes and goes out the next function should be a red light however, that is not the way it works all the time.
NHRA should figure this out at all the tracks not just some of them and be consistent with its implementation across all the tracks/events. For all the event not just part of it.
Just My 2 Cents
Rick Cates