I've got a question for you 'seasoned' racers When you have staged up, do you hit the gas pedal right when the 3rd amber light comes on or do you go after it has lit and the green light is getting ready to glow? I'm getting better and faster at leaving but I have that fear of 'red lighting'.. Your feedback would be appreciated..

Debbie

Keep leaving sooner and sooner until you do red light or your consistently running .0XX lights. Every car will leave differently. With my truck you needed to leave just as the last yellow lit. If I did that with my Valiant I would red light every time.

Rick

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Yep, practice, practice, practice.

Not only does every person react a little differently and every car react a little differently, some tracks have more roll-out than others.

My red car I could leave as soon as the last yellow flashed. My yellow truck will go red there, I have to see the bulb coming on.

Yes, even with LED lights there are still stages of the light coming on and going off.

Best thing you can do is go to your nearest track on a Test and Tune night and get as many runs as you can.

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@Slantzilla .. Oh I do.. We've beeen racing at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe.. I have yet to attend my first Killer Bees event.. That will be in Woodburn next month.. I've gotten a reaction time as low as .1 something but I know I can do better.. I'm trying to perfect it and that is why I asked. The hubby, Kevin, who is also a member her has told me over and over to go on the 3rd amber light.. but there's a pause when it comes up.. that's why I asked my question here.. I haven't red lighted yet but I know I can still have a faster reaction time.. I've studied the christmas tree lights at several racetracks..I think that' why I started out doing as good as I was from the beginning.. Thanks for your input guys.. I appreciate it..

You can always try rolling the car in a little farther, or going deep and turning the top stage bulb off.


Deep staging will slow your ET down some as you lose the roll-out of the staging beams.

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Ok, it's not that I don't understand what you all are saying.. But.. It's not all the reaction time I'm worried about.. It's getting off the light the way I should to beat mhy opposition.. I thought getting a better reaction time would do that..

A better reaction time will give you a better chance to win, rephrasing what you just typed. Absolutely.

I set my cars up, plus roll in and adjust the engine RPM stalling up on the converter, so that I can floor the gas the instant I see the 3rd amber light. It is hard to be consistent AND cut good lights if you do not do these things in combination. Some cars are better than others for this, so setup matters.

You need to have things set so that YOUR reaction to the last amber is the same every time, and is a "natural" reaction from you (like pulling your finger off a hot stove burner). You cannot think or wait on this differently for different runs or you will not cut consistent lights. This is the conventional wisdom, anyway, and has worked for me.

Lou

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IF you have a consistent sweet spot on the tree, you have to tune the car and your staging style to fit it.

If the best you can do staging normally is a .1XX light, you may need to try deep staging.

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see this guy gets it... shallow staging is the only way... if you can cut the same light and get good reaction times deep staging there is no reason you cant do it shallow staging...

but the benifit of shallow staging is you are moving SOONER because you cross the beams as the same time as the other guy but you didn't Leave at the same time, you left earlier...

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I slit all the extraneous jibba jabba off into it's own topic so Desteb can have her thread back.

Sorry for the derailment.

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Thanks, Zilla. Very clean...

Lou

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