CMI
To me 2 pounds is as bad as 200. We tiptoe across the scales at about 100 pounds over usually. The deal was probably a part scale accuracy and maybe a little light also. I have watched racers go back and forth to the scales before the race trying to just barley make the weight, this is a bit much for me. My advice to the racers is set the car up 10 pounds heavy dry. You wont have to waste your time bolting and un-bolting weight. Carrying around scales can be a problem making sure that the scale person is in fact going to the next race that weekend. Why not get 2 Home Depot 5 gal buckets and fill them with concrete mark them and use them as calibration weights for the track scales? Maybe get 6 buckets and let several crews pack them back and forth to the track. For what it is worth most of those old track scales are plenty accurate as far as repetition goes they could be off several pounds because of failure to "TARE" them. That mud adds up over a night of racing, but that is usually in your favor. The weight rule is about the most fair rule we have in mini sprint racing today, I would like to see it be a bit higher. A good driver can make up extra weight but a guy starting out needs as much help as we can give him. The way it is today we are saying if you weigh over 200 pounds you would best stay with stock cars.
As far as starting positions for the feature race. If you started the fastest racers 9 places back it would make for one hell of a race for the fans, maybe not for the fast guys, but racing would be better. We have started back in the middle of the pack on numerous occasions after wining a heat race (My driver sucks at drawing pills) ( he also sucks at qualifying) so what the heck. Yeh I think it sucks but it sure gives my driver a work out and does get me excited.
Power-I has gone to passing points for feature starting line up. I don't know how it works but they do have a rule book.
If I had my way If a guy won his feature this week he would be guaranteed a tail starting spot his next feature race. (Sorry Collin)
Our job is to satisfy the fans in the stands and not feed our own ego's. We want to put on as good of race as possible, and when a guy starts on the pole and pulls away from the pack that to me is not good racing , and is sure not very exciting. The chances of them fast guys starting on the tail and still winning the feature is still pretty good because when they start on the pole they still manage to lap several cars in the course of the race.
Maybe by figuring passing points for each race and using them to determine season championship points would help. Maybe figuring payout by passing points and the trophy for the race winner.
Heck I don't know what would be best. But it should be left to one person and not in the middle of the race year.
Honest Dad himself
