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Originally Posted by Charles Nungester
Im not a fan of it for several reasons.
One, I don't like seeing the same group on the track together twice. It's kinda a preview of the heat race.
Two, Hotlaps and Time trials are and should be two different things. There may be something wrong with the car. Bad choice of gear, A bent bar on the car or shock not working right from last week you didn't know about that you can correct before Time Trials.
Seen lots of problems with slower cars hurting others, Sometimes they can't even hold a line to make a pass so they can get a good lap the next time.
Takes just as long to stage, push off and puts more laps on the track than single car.
No clear overall fast time as sometimes the first hotlap-qualifying group is on a greasy track that takes a few laps to buzz off.
Rather have Single car or no qualifying from this fans perspective with maximum eight car heats.
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This post has several good points....However, I do like the fact that MSCS runs a different format than USAC. That makes there races just a little bit different.
Brandon has group qualified about 20 times this year and had quick time of his group 2 or 3 times, and it is frustrating when a slower car gets in front of you, but it is way better than pill draw racing when you only have 8 or 10 laps to pass 4 or 5 cars due to a bad draw. My biggest complaint is MSCS is not on the Race Monitor app for your cell phone and they only announce the top 4 times for each group, so if you don't qualify into the invert, you don't know for sure how close you were time-wise.....
A lot of tracks are single lane early in the night, so passing is very tough to do in hotlaps/qualifying and heat races, especially at Haubstaudt and Bloomington. But single car qualifying is not needed for weekly shows...save it for the National events with USAC only. That way it makes their shows different than everyone elses...