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I personally like the group qualifying. The Knoxville Nationals used the two car one lap qualifying approach and split the field on Friday night of the Nationals, and while it cut the time down some, it did NOT cut it in half IMO. There was still a significant decline in the speed of the track from the first "good" car to the the last car to qualify in a group. Group qualifying does seem to put less emphasis on your qualifying draw.
I have seen some comments about how group qualifying puts drivers unfamiliar with a track or those who miss the set-up at an unfair disadvantage. Maybe a compromise to that issue is let the groups hot lap and then send the groups back out for group qualifying.
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