Michael King <mapco@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Has anyone everyone ever thought of using the "Pro" tree
> for all the Pro runs?
Without a reaction timer to help you tune your staging distance? No way. All
you'd do is vastly increase the number of redlights, and for what?
The NHRA "Pro" tree (all ambers light at once for .4 seconds) is there mainly to
defeat delay boxes, and I don't know that anybody in ProSolo is concidering
running a delay box and transbrake. What's the point? You don't get a reaction
time to tune it with anyway....
Besides, the ProSolo tree works differently than a drag tree. A drag tree starts
the clock when the wheels leave the stage beam, the ProSolo tree starts the
clock when the light goes green. A drag tree redlights when the stage beam is
re-established before the green lights, the ProSolo tree has an extra redlight
beam you have to break.
And furthermore, I don't think the ProSolo equipment is capable of a NHRA "Pro"
tree sequence. It's not off-the-shelf NHRA equipment, it's custom-built.
> When I go to the drag strip and you want to run with the big
> guys, you have to use the Pro tree during that period of the night
ProSolo Is Not Drag Racing (TM)
> what was up with the removal of the pre-staging lights?
I asked about that. Apparently there was an equipment problem at Atwater that
hadn't gotten fixed yet - but not having a pre-stage light "was working so well"
that they were considering leaving it that way permenently.
I registered my opinion that I wanted the lights back. Perhaps others should do
the same.
DG
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