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If you have more heats you either have to take fewer cars from the heats or fewer cars from the B(s). I like the fact they take more than 2 cars from the B(s). I see many races where if you draw bad, qualify bad, or break in your heat and you start at the back of a B taking 2 cars your night is pretty much over. With USACS format guys can still race their way back in although I think they should start 17th at best.
They have a mod race just north of here where you draw your heat starting position. They run 10 heats of 8 to 10 cars and only the winner makes the main and make up the 1st five rows. Every one left does it again the 2nd night and the 10 winners make up rows 6-10. then they run alphabet features with 2 transferring to the next. You end up watching runaway heats and basically the pill draw has as much or more to do with who wins as racing talent. ( it does pay $1000.00 to start the main though). That race is definite proof you can have too many cars and too many cars make the quality of racing go down.
Bottom line is the USAC format is probably the fairest and hands down gives the most balanced heats (and best heat race quality race in and race out) of any format I have seen over the last 50+ years.
The top 24 make the invert, 8 more make the row behind them. The top teams are pretty much always in the top 24 no matter how late they draw unless they break or just miss the setup which would put them out anyway you do it and they are definitely going to be in the top 32 without bad luck.
And I can't even start to count the times that when everyone says the track is gone and some guy pushes off all elbows up and turns that fast time that every one says was impossible and sets the crowd on fire.
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