Of all the 1/8 Miles races I ran, I never once had the opportunity to experience a Christmas Tree. But of all the races I have watched, in my opinion, once it went from Pre-Staged to Staged it didn't give enough time to bring the revs up, to where I would had liked them to be anyway. In my '56, I would start out with a pretty high rev. One that I wanted to zone in and be comfortable with.
We always had starters that gave us that time.