I share your opinions on the Electronics in today's race cars. I have been footbraking for 36 years, but have run many races with an electronics car. I prefer the bottom bulb when racing.
But what does this have to do with the worse redlight option? I suggest that the junior dragsters try it and also the trophy and/or street cars. Gamblers races could be contested with the program in effect. High school drags would also be an excellent place to test the program. After a year or so, everyone would have a better understanding about it. I have documentation from race results printouts that shows it only occurs very infrequently.
In twelve races there were a total of 185 foul starts. There were 17 runs with dual foul infractions. The second foul was the worse with 5 of these 17 infractions. Four of these occurred in the first round and the other one occurred in the second round. With one infraction in the first round, the foul starts were equal reactions of 0.4950 and the winner of this run eventually won the race.
There was only 1 DUAL FOUL (second foul worse) INFRACTION in the second round. The winner of this round won the race. If the worse redlight option had been in use, this race would have had a different winner. So with the 17 dual foul infractions, only ONE would have unconditionally affected the race results.
So in twelve races, the worse redlight option would have unconditionally changed the results of only ONE race. So why even concern yourself with it. Maybe it's like cheating and you don't think about it until you lose to a cheater. Have you lost to a cheater in the last twelve races? If not, why even worry about it?
Reactions times did encourage electronics in racing. It also made the worse foul known to the racers.
I agree that the footbrakers are, probably, having more fun. But the worse redlight option will not lessen the fun.
Some of the Pro racers do complain if they lose to me, but they would probably complain anyway.
The true Pro racer doesn't care who the opponent is and don't whine after losing.
I don't run any owner installed electronics. But GM sure installs tons of it in their late model vehicles. My car has a real computer and it's factory installed. It's called an ECM (engine control module).
Thanks for your reply. I'm in total agreement with almost all of it. LOL!
Posted on Aug 5, 2000, 11:34 PM from IP address 152.163.207.201