I need to Understand this...

He was .3 faster, but he sat and watched you drive off for almost half a second before he took off. It should tell how much you beat him to the line somewhere on the slip.

The clock doesn't start until you break the beam that gives you your RT. If you went against a 9-second car or something like that, they could give you an 8 second head start (aka 8 second reaction time) turn around and still run a 9 second quarter mile.

Every 10th off your 60' takes away approximately 1 10th off your ET. He had a better launch, but you're probably shifting better. He's shifting too early it looks like. Aimee's dad trapped 103MPH when he ran 13.32 in her car the other day, yet I trapped 106MPH with my 13.49. If you look at your times, the difference between the 1st and 3rd run is the 60'.

R/T only matters in bracket racing and heads up racing. If you're just looking to get the best ET, R/T doesn't mean anything.

In bracket racing, you dial in your time, and have to come as close as possible to that time without going faster. They set up a delay between you and your opponent, so that if you both hit your dial in right on the dot, you'd both be crossing the finish line at the same time. Whoever crosses first, without beating their dial in, wins. So R/T definitely matters for that type of racing. But if you're just having fun and want to get a good time, R/T means nothing.