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I wasn't there and I have no dog in the fight, but I applaud any track or sanction that cracks down on getting cars to staging in a timely manner.
I get so sick of seeing the following scenario (which seems to be standard operating procedure for 80% of openwheel teams)..... Horn goes off in the pits to tell people they have X amount of minutes to get to staging...many teams use that horn as a "Time to throw a setup on it" alarm... they mill around the car polishing and cleaning during all the down time, then when the horn goes off they change a torsion bar, 3 shocks, jack weight in 2 stops, etc...all the while there are no rear tires on the car or even out of the trailer... wait until the teams on each side of them bolt on tires before they roll theirs out of the trailer....wait until the team beside them rolls the car away from the trailer then pull off 2 of the shocks and one of the torsion bars they put in and replace them again now that their competition has already committed and rolled away...no way they can possibly let the mud scraper from the team next door see what LR bar they plan to run, or which trick grooving/siping pattern they are going to run...can't have them stealing our speed secrets and beating us with them. Nowadays it takes 3 times as long for a driver to squeeze into their full containment seats and get all their belts and devices buckled up, but the teams still wait til the absolute last minute to prep the car for the A anyway.
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