Originally Posted by robert gatten:
the current way of setting up the whole night based only off qualifing pentilizes a car and driver twice in one night. A driver gains nothing by charging from 10th to 5th as he then must go back to the back of the b main. He would be just as well off to run a lap and pull in and still be in back of the B.What i would like to see is, Qualify to set up heats and non qualifiers but set the B MAIN lineup bases on your positions run in the heats ! Currently if you don't qualify well you would be better off just putting the car back on the trailer.
you are exactly right, might as well go home :applaud:. With the large car counts the track changes quite a bit from the first car to the 50th car. night #2 at the burg Bosfung qualify early and bad. Wins the lcq. Starts on the back of his heat and makes it up to 5th, by far being the fastest car on the track. Comes back out for the b-main to start on the tail, I think he passes 8 cars in the b-main or maybe 9. How was he rewarded? I beleive he got his $100 and put on the trailer. :action-smiley-049: REWARD THE RACERS! There are examples of this every week. This is how the little teams make the race. I don't care what format usac wants to use, just start makeing the races count for something.:headbang