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I just investigated many others (they were not that hard to find...just looked at lots of cars in the 2 classes as much as I could find, saw there was a very large contingent using them, looked at the rule book completely and lo and behold it was legal all along, tried it first in brackets to see if there was actually a competitive advantage (at my speed at the stripe and over the distance vs time there really wasn't...less than the math showed and a lot less than I originally calculated...in the thousandths, not hundredths, just a more consistent finish by turning off the clocks nearly at same place in each run was less dependent on attitude of the front end higher or lower at the stripe as I was an inch or 2 higher if in it, an inch or 2 lower if out of it or on the brakes and could actually run much faster if I dipped the nose hard without it).

I made mine very blatant and visible (which is what I see raising the ire here while many others out there are not so visible, but still there. Was not looking for a competitive advantage, just consistency with the body style I am using (transverse engine behind the spindle, and the 2 different lower hanging air dams that were triggering the finish line beam at different rates and times based on front end attitude), and availed myself of the existing ruleset allowance at the same time making my chosen legal solution quite evident to other competitors.

If it is new to you...then you are missing many others. It makes the track no shorter than I can make the track myself in 2 different ways and distances just by using my right and/or left foot in combination or separately (depending on when I time my last move to lift or brake at the line or stay dead in it).

It actually takes away those options. I may just want those other options back
now.

With it there, a competitor knows what part of my car will reach that beam at 1320'...without it there neither one of us knows...could be front air dam, could be the lower air dam under radiator or the front of the tire all depending on the attitude of the front of the car and the
last second stripe move decision I make. It is just 1 of those cars that sits 1" above that 6" high finish line beam at natural massive speed of a whole 75 mph at the finish line.

The recent string of quite good light
breakouts that I am recently experiencing has convinced me that it may be more of a competitive disadvantage than I calculated, so thanks for making me think about it as much as you have.

It was just safer for all concerned that I use the brake pedal less when the guy in the opposing lane is side-by-side in the lights at 137-147 mph...but it has cost me some good win lights I think after a deep dive on breakouts (some close some far).