you can stage and be just as consistent you just have to learn the car... what you gain by a tall front tire is rollout... the amount of time your moving before the beam is tripped and your time starts... BUT YOUR ALREADY MOVING!!
I never stated that a person couldn't be just as consistant using a smaller or taller tire. I was stating what works for ME. Hence the amount of times I used the word "I", as in me. I have learned MY car over the last 36 years pretty well. I've tried front runner as small as 24" and as large as 28" with different air pressures and found what works best for MY car and I is a 26" front tire with 36 pounds of air in it. With that combo I (ME) can hit the EXACT same spot at the line about lets see................EVERY TIME! As far as roll out goes, it really doesn't matter as long as I park it in the same place every time. If I'm at another track and the roll out is different, which it is more times than not, I roll numbers in or out of the box (delay box). Please don't take offence to anything I've written here, but this isn't my first rodeo.