Staging light error caught on film & Div. Director's respons

[Carl Weisinger]

Originally Posted by Don Kennedy

I experienced the same situation in Wyoming in the eightes ,so what i did was ask the starter to get the division director to come down and see if i red light > i would not move or let up on the brake pedal ,Zimmerman came down to the starting line and i ask him to restart the tree which he did and of course it did not show a red light in my lane . i refused to move until a desion was made and the decison was a re run . I basically made and pushed the issue to prove if I moved which after doing a new tree I did not red light FYI

Don,

Now the SAME situation would have been a malfunction caused by the flash of a photographers camera.

I've had the pleasure of talking to "Zim" a few times over the years and I'm surprised
he didn't have your car towed off the starting line with you in it. And, you definitely wouldn't have gotten away with that if Buster Couch had been the starter. You lucked
out getting a rerun on that deal. But, since you didn't say what happened,..... did you
win on the rerun?

In all honesty, Zim restarting the tree and not seeing a redlight didn't prove anything except
your car didn't move out of the beam THAT time.