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Originally Posted by illiNOISE
Just to play Devil's Advocate for a moment, consider this scenario: A 40 lap A-main goes without a single caution until lap 35. The top one or two drivers have "checked out", and have lapped deep into the field. And very few drivers have pulled off. If you have well over half the remaining field down a lap, why shouldn't they be able to race with each other for position without having to worry about screwing things up on the restart for the leaders?
Now, for a regular 20 or 25 lap weekly feature, you should probably go ahead and put the lappers up where they belong. It's usually not going to matter if the lappers get to race for position in those deals, because there will usually only be a couple of them, and they will be towards the tail end of the running order anyway.
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Or consider this scenario: A 40 lap A-main goes without a single caution until lap 38 - the leader has had to pass 10-12+ cars to maintain his position. Caution comes out and under new rule those 10-12 cars are moved to rear and suddenly #2 guy does not have to pass all of them like leader did - he gets jump on restart and walks away with a win that under old rule would have been very difficult to achieve and former leader now leaves with 2nd place pay when he very well would have won it. Now if you're talking a $10k to win show that's pretty big chunk of change to lose due to this rule......
Either way it's tough but if I was the leader who worked to pass everyone and now its just being handed over to those behind me I would be pretty upset.....makes a good show for the fans but is it good for the racers....guess just have to wait to see what the actual drivers say about it....I guess if you're #2 guy that walks away with a win you're all for it and if you're #1 that just got dumped then it's a bad deal.....I think that is the hard part to swallow for me....that it could happen in last 5 laps and a lot of work for the #2 guy is suddenly much easier and has a much better shot at the win....although if it were a driver I were rooting for in that # 2 spot then it's all good LOL.