Can someone explain deep staging to me? I have heard it will help your E/T but can you explain how you do it???

thanks....JR

 

I don't take credit for this, as it is out of the MM&F Jan 02 pages. By deep staging you are simply bumping the car out of the pre-stage beam and positioning it further into the stage beam. The further the tires are to the front of the stage beam, the less time it will take for the car to yank them out of the beam and because of that the reaction time of the driver will usually be better. Deep staging will, no doubt, hamper the car's ET and, for that reason alone, should only be performed when bracket racing because getting the maximum ET is not of real importance. It really depends on your reaction time to the third yellow light. The faster your reaction time, the shallower staging is better.

From my experience, many tracks don't allow deep staging, as they don’t have the capability for you to roll out of blocking the pre-staging light. This will give you an automatic red light!

 

It does not help your ET at all.......actually it hurts your ET (when compared to shallow staging).

--Joe

 

Very well put.

Deep staging is used most often on a pro tree because there is only one yellow and less time to react.

It does hurt your E.T. to deep stage. Think of it like this: The shallower you stage, the farther you are away from the clock "starting" beams. So by not deep staging you get kind of a running start (more room to get the truck rolling) before the clocks are started. I hope that made sense.

 

Thanks for the info gents, I understand now...... JR