I think it's true that everyone has the same "shot", but I have a problem with running a six lap race, or you're done. Six laps and who knows how many cars, to transfer two? If you have an issue in time trials, you have no time to make it up.

Whether it's track conditions that are getting worse, something breaks or whatever in time trials, you'd still have a shot. You have a heat to race in, which is more than six laps, plus you don't load up and go home if you don't transfer. Instead, you go to a semi-feature and still have a shot to make the feature. This is still fair to everyone.

If they're going to have provisionals, I think this is even more of a case to not have a "Non-Quals" race. Why should someone come up one spot short in that race, go home with nothing, but someone they beat, goes to the "A"?

I just don't see why anyone, other than the normal USAC teams, would want to tow from any sort of distance to a show. Who are we to say that they'd be back-markers either. With a chance to show up and get nothing at all, why do it?