12 car heats, really?
 

There has to be a more equitable way to breakdown a 48 car field. Thoughts?

Re: 12 car heats, really?
 

I like the way it is instead of 6-8 heats, two C-Mains, two B-Mains or similar formats. No need to wear out the race track more than they already do. People would then complain that the track takes rubber and is one lane.

It is a little different now. It used to be if you didn't qualify in the top I believe 36 there was a last chance race before the heats that took the top four to the back of the four heats all others were finished for the event.

Originally Posted by captrat:
There has to be a more equitable way to breakdown a 48 car field. Thoughts?

Go back to running non-qualifer races to eliminate the slowest qualifiers before the heats.

Guys starting 8th on back don’t like it!! If you have 12 cars in a heat, invert the entire heat race!! Non qualifiers races are a joke!! Let everyone run a heat race!!!

Re: 12 car heats, really?
 

send people home after quals.

Still should do it the old way, top 32 qualify, or maybe 36 and then non qualifier , and no provisional. Or actually group qualify like mscs , and add a few more heats,

Y'all complain too much.

There's too many cars, what a problem.

Re: 12 car heats, really?
 

I don't mind the way it is, I like USAC's format. Sometimes it's frustrating if you it breeds a lot of cautions in the back but it seems to me the guys in the front of the heats were having as many issues as the ones in the back. I like the way the heats races are loaded, it gives it a "big race" feel on Sprint Week. If you have too few cars then the heats turn into virtual hot laps and there is less opportunities to pass.

Re: 12 car heats, really?
 

Originally Posted by sp6967:
send people home after quals.

Not a bad idea. Plenty of nights that I feel like a should load up after a lousy TT effort. The results usually back up that feeling.

Originally Posted by kcarm92:
Still should do it the old way, top 32 qualify, or maybe 36 and then non qualifier , and no provisional. Or actually group qualify like mscs , and add a few more heats,

The old way was top 32, and 1 car per heat from non qualifiers. So that was 9 per heat, which I didn’t mind at all. Now there were 3 more cars per heat. Not a lot of difference, except maybe how they get lined up perhaps.