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The MSCS format is perfect for their niche in sprint car racing. It is simple and gives every car a chance of starting on the pole of a heat, which is good for smaller teams or slower cars, honestly.
There are no passing points with MSCS, though.
Here's the negative - if you start on the pole and win your heat, you have a very good possibility of starting on the front row. In an MSCS event, you can start on the front row for every race and win without passing a car, all by drawing two good pills.
Also, if you start at the back of a stacked heat, you have an uphill battle all night. If you go from ninth to seventh (let's say you couldn't pass Stanbrough, Clayton, Schuerenberg, Short, Levi, or Bland in your heat race), then you're likely starting in the C MAIN!! The only reason that it usually works out fairly well in MSCS events is that the fields are not that deep, so moving forward in a heat race and/or C/B Mains is possible...
767 - There is some sandbagging at pavement races during the heats. I would say it is very rare at any dirt USAC race. The lowest car count all year on dirt has been 26, which came at Hagerstown. In that race, Jesse Hockett crashed while racing hard in his heat race, and had to take a provisional for the feature. Brady Short got caught up in a lapped car's spin during the B Main and barely made it back to a transfer spot. Josh Spencer missed the show after tangling with another car while battling for the transfer spot on the last lap. Believe me, no one wants to run the semi!!
But even with that, I would still love to see the CRA format employed...
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