New at the track question about launching with red line tires

You want to see something impressive, hit the pure stock drags in Michigan, this was my third year and I'm hooked. I've also done the last two years at the fast/ factory stock races. Id say a four speed on bias plies is a killer against most of these cars, you just cant get out of the hole with any consistency. With temperature changes as the day goes you'll gain or lose ET on top of all the other variables. One of the biggest problems coming out of the hole light, is trying to gauge where to have you clutch pedal when the lights come down. You need to remove all the free play you can without rolling through the lights, and when the last yellow hits you want to bog the car to keep from spinning. All of this going through your head at the tree creates horrible reaction times, or at least just inconsistent times. To compare, If you run slicks you can just bury the throttle and dump the clutch. This year another problem that was thrown into the mix was the track guy spraying the sticky stuff, every couple runs he would re spray and mop the starting line. If you were the next cars in line the track would actually get slick before the rosin would tack up. Most of the quicker pure stock guys have some tricks going on, I watched a 455 Buick GS lifting the drivers front on bias plies, now that's impressive.