No Blinders

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Mike McCandless

In hopes of not starting a fight and just trying to educate myself on class history, what was the reasoning for taking out deep staging?

Jody Lang, Toby Lang, Scott Welborn , and other assorted drivers that went rounds deep staging ……

[Larry Hill]

I thought it was perceived that no mater what the deep stagers competition did staging, the starter would not activate the tree until the deep stager was ready.

It's not much of an advantage, but I believe it is an advantage.

[Billy Nees]

I BELIEVE that in bracket racing the deep-stager must pre-stage first. After the shallow-stager pre-stages, the deep-stager must stage and after the shallow-stager stages the deep-stager can go deep. AND he must have DEEP on his window.
Does that make any sense?
Larry, try getting an Escort or a Cavalier to "react" sometime. I've never really had much of a problem with staging shallow but some Racers do.

[Larry Hill]

You know me Billy I would probably do it a little differently. Remember I do race a pentastar car

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

You know me Billy I would probably do it a little differently. Remember I do race a pentastar car

LARRY!!!!!! You need a Neon!

[jmcarter]

At the big bucks foot brake races where deep staging is common the starters are more alert. You can put DEEP on your window at local tracks and the starter activates the tree early you’re NOT going to get a rerun. For that reason alone I haven’t deep staged in 30 years, find a way to cut a light or go home.

[Mike McCandless]

Originally Posted by jmcarter

At the big bucks foot brake races where deep staging is common the starters are more alert. You can put DEEP on your window at local tracks and the starter activates the tree early you’re NOT going to get a rerun. For that reason alone I haven’t deep staged in 30 years, find a way to cut a light or go home.

It sounds like they did find a way to cut a light, but some didn't like it. Racers have pushed against rules since the start of time. Rule interpretation is the corner stone of drag racing. Always has been, always will be.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Mike McCandless

Racers have pushed against rules since the start of time. Rule interpretation is the corner stone of drag racing. Always has been, always will be.

and "since the start of time" until fairly recently, NHRA Tech pushed back. Which is sorely missing here in the 3rd decade of the 21st century.

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Jody Lang, Toby Lang, Scott Welborn , and other assorted drivers that went rounds deep staging ……

,, Donnie Sabin #2 that year