No question about it. For me, throttle stops is not in the spirit of racing. Back when I was bracket racing, the fastest class cars that were not competitive would throttle stop their cars and run in slower classes. The big MPH made them impossible to judge on the big end. Nothing worse than sitting at the light in a double duty street car on the foot brake trying to compete againts a delay boxed, two stepped and throttle stopped purpose built drag car running out the back door 40 MPH faster than you.
That sounds good did they give you time slips in time trials or where you completely blind going into eliminations? I think I might try implementing something like this in our first street legal drags next year. After all the street legal crowd just gets confused anyway when it comes to dials. There fastest et all night might be a 10.32 but they will either dial a 10.00 or a 10.50 and not understand why they cant ever get out of the first round.
This is why I am worried about the 13 second cars. I don't think they 60' fast enough to cut a good pro tree unless they deep stage. And, not all tracks accommodate or even allow that.
With 7 cars running it was easy to keep track. The track can print a spreadsheet with the best et's for each car number.
On our system(portatree) we can export results to spread sheet and then sort by any piece of the runs that we wish.
