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I personally think if you are going to qualify, this is the right format.
1. Qualifing has to mean something or don't do it. If they invert the heat, you should get your time back in the end after the B. Quals have to mean something or don't do it.
2. Inverting the heats gives somebody that "missed it" or drew a bad pill a chance to make the feature by starting up front. If you aren't good enough to stay up front, you fall back, miss the transfer, and then start back in the B. You obviously weren't that fast to begin with if you can't finish 4th.
3. Pill draw is a pill draw. You draw for heats or quals, it's still a draw. Sometimes going out early is good, sometimes it's bad. I don't really see how you make ANY kind of draw fair. Just can't happen. You can't make track conditions equal on a dirt track for everybody.
4. If you can't qualify in the top 32, you should have to work a little harder. I realize a bad draw can cause that, but Hines made the A WITHOUT even needing the B at Lawrenceburg. I know he has good equipment, but not every driver out there could do that. He then had to start the A in the back because of quals so that still meant something.
I think USAC should do things differently because that's the top of line. I like that the other series draw and race, but I like that USAC quals and it means something.
Stanbrough or Ballou would have made it to the front if they had started mid-pack at Kokomo. They were that fast and the cream rises. They weren't up front based on just a good qual run.
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