Finish Line Beam Height

[Jason Oldfield]

In this day of laser technology and high sampling rate data acquisition systems, at MOST tracks you SHOULD be able to have the beam an inch off the ground and be good. Will there be the occasional exception with somebody going through the lights on two (one) wheels? Sure, but it would be MUCH less common than what happens today, particularly with any of the classes where breakouts are a concern.

That said, getting all tracks across the country to adopt this new timing system is not likely to happen over a short period of time, and we'd be running one configuration at NHRA national events, another at IHRA national events, yet another at division events, and yet another at our local tracks. So, it probably won't change until somebody has a near zero dollar solution.

So though I agree with you Mike, though I'd rather spend my time in front of NHRA bitching about something I care about more, like payouts...

PS - I agree with CBS Jr. on the dump job...