From what I gather, qualifying for street E.T. is based on lowest reaction time and is used to pare the field down to 32 bikes (if necessary).
There's no pairing in street et
"Pare" not "pair"
From Webster's dictionary:
pared par·ing
Full Definition of PARE
transitive verb
1: to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of <pare apples> <paring his nails>
2: to diminish or reduce by or as if by paring <pare expenses> <the novel was pared down to 200 pages>
The general regulations gave me the impression that reaction times might be used to reduce (or "pare down") the field to 32 bikes.
Re-reading it sounds like eliminations will be run until the field is reduced to 32 bikes ("all run")?
"Qualifying based on reaction time" is the part that doesn't fit. If this is truly an "all run" field, then "qualifying" should be only to establish an E.T. at or below 18.99. The "reaction time" qualifier makes me think that the field could be reduced up front based solely on reaction times...
Or does this reaction time qualifier merely require the driver to "cut a clean light" (green)
and meet the 18.99 max E.T. requirement? So, if during qualifying, the driver pulled
all red lights then he could potentially be disqualified up front? If this is the case, then Bill needs to be more careful!