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Originally Posted by CassiesMan
So if you get a number below .500, is that like, jumpin the gun? Good runs by the way.
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Yeah, that's red lighting. That .502 light is the same as .002 light at tracks where .500 competition trees are used (and thats everywhere except for National events, and then its usually a .400 pro tree), its just that the reactions times are still printed as .500 as perfect instead of .000. Every track used to print off .500 as perfect, but now most NHRA and IHRA member tracks use .000 as perfect (there are still alot of tracks that use .500 though). The track where I race was an IHRA member track but I'm not real sure that it still is.
And then my .495 red light is the same as a -.005 reaction time where .000 is perfect. Its common for us to just say a double Oh-five red (for a .495 or -.005 red) or double Oh-two (for a .502 or .002) reaction time.