[Rich Biebel]

Ed....in 1983 S/G was just getting started. They allowed Deep Staging....people raced thru or even around the water to get to the starting line so they could stage first and the second guy in usually lost......It was another year or two before they had that all fixed. I ran some S/ST events in that era. Deep Staging was allowed and we used a .4 tree the first year at the events around here. Racing was close after the Deep Staging was eliminated and for most of the way down the track cars were side by side. T-Stop timers are what allowed the present evolution of the Super classes. They appeared in the late 80's or early '90's and I don't think they could ever be eliminated now.......