worst red light debate, again!

[bill dedman]

Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

not this **** again, really? i expect it every 6 months to a year, but hell its only been like 3 months. give it a rest, i mean can we wait for another horse to die before you beat it?

It will be a dead horse when somebody, anybody, posts a good, reasonable, legitimate reason why it should not be changed.

That hasn't happened in twenty kazillion posts from people who give a million and one reasons why they don't WANT to see it changed, but never from anyone who can tell me:

1. what is fair about it, as it stands.
2. how changing it will impact racing (as we know it) in any negative way.
3. any LEGITIMATE reason NOT to change it.

Instead, people post, "Oh, not again!!!" messages to try to negate the real reasons why It needs to be changed, and personal insults and ridicule from people who, when they can't come up with sensible comments advocating leaving it alone, try to direct attention away from the factual issues at hand, and rely on "killing the messenger"...

They can't defend it, because, it's so unnecessarily unfair to the first car to leave, it's indefensible.

Until someone comes up with a defense of the current rule, (not gonna happen!) and proves that changing it to a "worse red light" rule would be some sort of a mistake, it will live on in infamy as proof positive that NHRA cares little or nothing about the fairness of their rules.

This is not just about "slow" cars vs. fast cars. ANY 2 cars, a AA/SA vs. an A/SA car that run handicap races against each other, for example, are affected.

Not a dead horse at all... yet.