Andrew_Bettencourt@kingston.com wrote:
> However...Pro Solo lights and protocol have very little to do with drag
> racing.
This is true, however....
> I agree with you about the deep staging. Nobody deep stages in Pro Solo.
> The technique, as you have stated, is to stage a shallow as possible. So
> if nobody deep stages, then the PS light is really not neccesary...right?
Just because "nobody deep stages in ProSolo" doesn't mean that there aren't
people who /should/ be deep staging - or at the very least, staging deeper than
they are.
Learning to tune lights is one of the hardest skills to master in bracket
racing, where reaction time is ultra-critical, and learning how and where to
stage is the biggest part of that.
I, for example, do not stage "as shallow as possible", I stage a little deeper.
Staging shallow will get me in the area of a .550 light leaving on the second
yellow coming on. When I stage in my "happy place" I can cut .515 lights all
day. Stage a hair too deep, and I'm looking at a .498. (.500 is perfect)
I redlighted for the first time in like 5 Pros in Peru, and that missing
pre-stage light was why. All this
creeping-forward-and-backing-up-and-creeping-forward makes finding the ideal
staging spot very difficult.
It's bad enough not having a reaction timer, not having a pre-stage light...
hell, why not just wave a green flag? It's just as precise.
DG
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