Re: Doubble bulbed?
Can anyone answer this...
Why does Rick Stewart raise him arm, while apparently flipping the switch, with both cars staged on the starting line?
It appears to me, he often is manually starting both cars, as if autostart isn't even on. I have heard that autostart can be turned off, all the way.
On nitromater today, Jeff Foster claimed that he is merely activating autostart when 3 bulbs are on. That would mean that, the big gesture he likes to make, is just to turn on autostart? I don't buy it, I think he manually starts these guys, at different times, because he likes the control? Am I wrong?
What appears to have happened in this case, Rick saw 3 bulbs on, waited over a second, then turned on autostart. Does he then raise his arm in the air when he thinks the tree will flash? Thus, he acts like he is turning on all the ambers?
Do we have any starters out there? From an ease of labor viewpoint, why doesn't he just sit back, watch out for saftey issues, and turn on autostart after the cars are done with burnouts?
In this case, NHRA was right.
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