The Compulink AUTO START System once armed to :ON

[JP1738]

I made my way through this novel and I have a few take-aways.

For starters, you are absolutely right, the verbiage of the rulebook needs to be updated to include, in detail, the exact mechanisms autostart uses for all classes, how it is activated, and specific descriptions of each scenario that is possible. At this point, all we have to go on is precedent, and that is not enough.

You should have been awarded the buy-run in C1 of the EF/S class race. Your man made a legitimate attempt to get on the qualifying sheet and failed to post a time. Seems pretty cut and dry to me, especially given he was not awarded a withdrawal. I hate that happened to you, but I'm glad it inspired this conversation and that you are trying to turn your misfortune into a learning experience for all of Class Racer and hopefully for the NHRA Rules committee or whoever is in charge of updating the rulebook.

EF/S is cool. I want to build one too. I still have the '93 Ford Festiva I drove to high school and it's either getting cut-up for a small block or turned into an EF/S in the next few years. Haven't decided which and I have no time-table for either.

I think the disallowing of deepstaging is retarded. Pros are allowed to do so, why not sportsman? I would not deepstage even if I were allowed to, but I've no idea why we aren't permitted to. If a guy accidentally punches one in deep, I don't think he should be DQ'd for it. Make it where deepstaging is not honored, do so at your own risk, but an instant red seems too punishing to me. Just my opinion. A guy trying to get deepstaged when it isn't honored, or accidentally doing so is probably not winning that round or the race anyway, so why do we have to throw him out? I don't get the thinking behind that.

DD communication is pretty poor across the board. In D2, Cody Savage has been the best I've experienced, but he still isn't perfect. Communication can be delayed, decisions aren't clear at times, but overall he does a great job and is more than fair to participants.

Shoutout to all my slow brothers! I am not 17.00 slow, but in the 5 Stock eliminator races I've entered, I've still never left first.

TL/DR: I'm with you on all the autostart stuff, it needs to be more clearly written and described so all can understand. Seems strange to me that we've had the system for 15 years and yet it is still shrouded in confusion at times.