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Originally Posted by JHamilton
At a local drag strip here you would take some serious crap for cutting anything in the tenths and not in the hundredths.
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A totally different set of circumstances. In drag racing you "move" on the final yellow knowing that exactly 0.5sec later you'll have the green. Reaction times of 0.00X is very common in bracket/sportsman class.
In F1, the five lights turn on in 1 sec intervals, and the time from when all five lights on to all lights out is a totally random time that is computer controlled. The race director has
no control of this delay. Predicting what that time is going to be is totally impossible. Getting a visual reaction time under 0.150sec is almost humanly impossible. The average human visual reaction time is about 0.250sec. So Bottas' reaction time, was said to be 0.201sec, is above average - and if his reaction time had been 0.180sec or below, it would have been deemed a jump start.