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Explaining the tree

FULL TREE: Used in Competition, Stock, and Super Stock, for which a handicap starting system is used to equalize competition. The three amber bulbs on the Christmas Tree flash consecutively five-tenths of a second apart, followed five-tenths later by the green starting light. A perfect reaction time on a full Tree is .000.
PRE-STAGE INDICATOR LIGHTS: Yellow bulbs warn drivers that they are approaching the startling line and the �staged� position.

STAGE INDICATOR LIGHTS: Signal drivers that they are on the starting line ready for a run. These yellow bulbs come on when the front wheels of a race car interrupt the beam from a light source to the photo cells. These same photo cells start the timing equipment.

THREE-AMBER STARTING SYSTEM: All three amber floodlights in a driver�s lane flash simultaneously before the green light comes on. This is called a �Pro start� system. Racers running in handicap categories get a countdown of one amber light at a time until the green light comes on. The Pro start system runs with a .4-second difference between amber and green lights, while the handicap system runs with a .5-second difference between bulbs.

GREEN LIGHT: This is the one that makes it happen. Once the green light is flashed, the driver in that lane is free to make a run. Any time a green light is shown in a driver�s lane it indicates that a fair start was accomplished.

RED LIGHT: When a car leaves the starting line before the green light comes on, or, in some cases, is staged too deeply into the staging beams, the red light will flash in that lane. It indicates the driver in that lane has been disqualified. During competition, only one red light will illuminate, thus eliminating only the first offender.

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My Demonstration Plan

For my demonstration I plan on bringing my 1975 camaro, which is my race car, my 1980 camaro, which is my street car, and my sportbike to the parking lot to show the class. I will take them through the safety devices and explain what the purpose of them is. I will show them what makes the car different form a regular street car, like the tires and exhaust. I will also have a slideshow with pictures of different drag racing cars and information about them. I will have to trailer the 1975 camaro here because it is not street legal, but the 1980 camaro and the bike I will drive here. I will start the cars and bike to let the class hear how loud they are, and let them sit in the ’75. I don’t believe I can drive any of them as a demonstration because of the schools rules and what not. It would be really cool to do a burnout to show how to warm up your tires before a race. I will just have to describe how to do a burnout in my slideshow; I will put pictures of cars doing them and things like that.