first time down the track advise?

thanks for all the advise guys
this Friday is monster midnight madness (whatever that means) so i may hold off until next week, just to get a calmer evening to run at

Pay attention to the tree operator. If they line you up with a full on race car be polite and don't let him burn down at the tree. Pull up when you are signaled. Staging is tricky sometimes, if you don't have solid bulbs or are deep staged the red light can burn you pretty easy.

"burn down at the tree" i have no idea what that means