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If it were in my power, I would base the factoring off of 1/8 mile ET's and eliminate reaction times. Reaction times serve an important role though and that is for a racer to see and do the math on how he won or lost. Although it's possible to dump before the 1/8 mile, it would produce erratic results IMO, Paul.

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I'm with Dan! I've thought that for a long time but didn't have the nerve to say it. LOL!

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100% with Dan, I have been saying this for years, believe it or not i was racing before RT's and back then you knew if you got a light or not, you didn't need the ticket to scare you. At nat trails we paid $1 for RT's the first year.

Best line I ever heard about RT's was from my father, he said
"RT's made the good drivers back in the day back off and the bad drivers step way up"

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LOL... Brer Rabbit! :cool:

MAAAAAYbe back in the day, but the genie is out of the bottle. Unless they're changing the rollout between rounds, the good drivers would absolutely destroy everyone with nothing but an E.T. They know how to adjust, and they know how to drive the stripe. Joe Average that's just hanging on is a sitting duck.

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Just think how much less stressful life would be at Fletchburg racing. You wouldn't have to obsess for hours why your car was off by .002 in a certain incremental time. You'd be able to relax with a Michelob Ultra and enjoy yourself for a change! LOL

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I concur, lets return to E.T., MPH and win/lose time slips. Remember that some of us raced for many years without incremental times. The only way you had positive confirmation of a good leave was winning a heads-up race while posting a slower E.T. Uh-oh, I guess that's heresy; giving value to a heads-up race. If the skill gulf between touring drivers and the remainder of us is as great as some have indicated, why would any below that elite level ever enter a race competitively?

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Giving data to the racers also acts as a checksum on the timing system. Racers can catch errors or anomolies that race officials might never see. Even though such errors they are infrequent, they do happen, whether its a hanging stage beam or an errant piece of debris blowing through the finish line beam.

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If we got rid of time slips all together, imagine how much ink and paper we could save. Wouldn't you guys like to save a tree?

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Something like this?
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...945/002-10.jpg
Maybe they could dress up Trickey Ricky Stewart in white pants and shirt and dump the straw hat for a white Stroker McGurk
peacap,waving his flag.