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Originally Posted by robert gatten
This is just a place to air your thoughts, and i like your ideas posted earlier. However the fastest qualifiers start in the back and i have no problem with that. My problems comes from a guy making it out of the non qualifier,starting in the back of the heat (thats ok too ) but then passing good USAC cars to run up to 5th only to be put to the tail of the B again too start all over. The USAC cars that run 8th in the heats get to go right up front in the B even though they were out raced in the heat. Just kind of sticks in my crawl a little. Maybe its too much trouble for USAC to figure out all those heat races and line up a B main based on racing .
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This is exactly why you have to QUALIFY well....so you don't end up in the rear of a heat and race one spot out of the transfer then go to the tail of the b and have to start over....running with USAC is not made to be easy......these guys are the best of the best and they all know how important those 2 laps are....if you are an underfunded team and a poor qualifier....then things are gonna be extremely difficult for you.....but maybe....just maybe you cut two nice laps of hanging it all out....and you make the invert or higher...thats what the entire format is about and that is why i love the qualifying.
I am as much for the underdog as anyone as i have multiple friends who race here in indiana locally every weekend....they are not racing sprintweek because despite them being quite formidable on some really tough local race tracks....they know better than to try to race against these odds because they don't qualify well...plain and simple...they know how much it is to qualify well.
i agree with spridge....i don't think these fast cars are sandbagging as much as some of you think...the first couple heat races at gas city last week were raced on a really fast track...despite some of these drivers driving for the big teams...they couldn't catch the guys starting in front of them...yes...maybe by feeding a wheel and crashing themselves or others they MIGHT have made it....but why take that risk if your running 6thor 7th with 2 to go...and despite not wanting to run a b you know your gonna get your time back and have a shot at transfer...a reward for QUALIFYING well....i was standing outside of turn 3 where i could see that the cars were creating major groundspeed on a fast track...so putting the fast qualifier or some of the cars around him where they finsih the heat race...after they cut 2 great laps and the guy on the pole...maybe the 24th fastest qualifier takes off and never gets passed because of a fast track...doesn't make much sense.
i like the format now....however rob's idea about the featch invert is something to ponder.