Angie’s Staging Duel and Apology?

 Lots of weird stuff happening at the tree these days...

Whats is Steve Johnson doing? He puts both bulbs on and then turns around and watches for the other guy to get to the tree.... then backs out of the stage beam.

I dont get it... whats the purpose?

If his opponent is a pro... he's not paying attention to what Steve is doing anyway..

I think maybe its just for show.

Angie does not owe an apology because who is Andrew Hines to think he should be the last one to stage? If Andrew let Angie into his head thats Andrew's fault because obviously Angie did not let him into hers! LOL He is just mad that for two straight races against her he had the displeasure of loading up after their pairing! BOOHOO!

About 15 years ago Warren Johnson jumped out of his car and began berating Scott Geffrion for not staging first. Scott waited and staged last and it relly meesed WJ up but like my above statement who is WJ to think he should be the last one to stage??? Before Scott Geffrion could even say anything the NHRA interviewer (I think it was Steve Evans) just outright asked WJ, why is it not ok for Scott to stage last but it was ok for WJ to stage last! WJ glared at Steve and if looks could have killed Steve would have been done for......... WJ did not answer the question and turn his back and walked over to his car. I think it was weeks before WJ would even talk to Steve Evans because of that incident on camera!! LOL

Now what is the difference with the Angie/Andrew incident from last weekend........................ Nothing!!!

I don't think Angie owes an apology! I think she did a marvelous job. I don't give a flip who I'm racing, if I don't want to go in first, I won't. I make it a habit NOT to get used to staging first or last everytime, because you don't ever know what kinda head games your opponent is gonna try to play.

I've got bad news for anyone that tries to get in my head, ain't nobody home!!!

FWIW I have better luck staging first, but if I think I can rattle your nerves and cause you to go red or make a mistake, I will stage last.

When the other teams pickup on this, I will bet you'll see more than just Angie doing this to Andrew.

Staging lights are made to keep the game fair....as far back as staging goes there has been racers trying to use them for an edge on the guy or in this case girl in the other lane....The first one to light a bulb is the one who is suppose to light the second set of bulbs first ....

I never liked the burn down, usually started by the one that lite the first light, you can usually tell if that is happening to you and the way to reverse and confuse the one that started it is to stage fast and turn it around on the other racer....

The race between Angie and Andrew, who stage the first set of bulbs and that will be the one that started the unfair advandage....Sometimes it backfires....

Didn't say it was a rule, just that was the way it was to keep every thing fair, on the up and up between riders.  I know the seven second rule was to stop burn downs, but it still happens with the first light....even to an extend with the second light, depends on the power of who the racers are....

I watch every NHRA race on TV and when I first heard about the auto start I was curious how true that was....I sit one day watching and had a stop watch in my hand and when the Top Fuel and Funny Cars were running there was a few times that it took the second light ten to fifteen seconds to light and no red light....So I figure the Auto Red light can be controlled from either the starter or the tower....

I had a matched race with Boris Murray at the Old US 30 track and we got there early and was invited to the tower and while there we were ask what kind of times we wanted during the race....go figure....

Yea, and a stop watch is not very reliable either, watching and activating it watching TV, could be off a few second too....

I thought you couldnt stage until your opponent prestaged in reference to what Steve did. Wasnt it that way before?

I dont care what anyone says , that shiit was funny. He has to almost laugh at it himself....

Nobody that races Steve pays much attention to that anymore because he has been doing that for 10 years at minimum. If anyone lights both bulbs before you light one if it bothers you, you can ask the starter to back them out of the stage bulb before you prestage.