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Originally Posted by chrismattlin
Both days are great, but a little different.
Saturday will see everyone qualify once, then many will attempt to requalify to either (a) make it into the Fast 9 and have a shot at pole on Sunday, or (b) make it out of the bottom 5 spots and avoid the Last Row Shootout on Sunday. Unlimited attempts. Positions 10-30 will be locked at the end of the day.
Sunday will see the Last Row Shootout (5 drivers going for the last 3 spots), then the Fast 9 shootout for the pole position. Those two will be packaged together neatly for television. Then the track will open for practice to end the day for a couple hours.
Personally, I like Saturday the best as they are qualifying all day and it kinda has the feel of Qualification Days gone by. But you don't get the finality of who won pole or who is left out. Sunday will give you that, but it's a relatively short day of action; albeit there's practice afterwards, but it's a bit anticlimatic.
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You did an excellent job of explaining it. I do the Saturday event because I guess I am a traditionalist who always went to the first day (pole day) back when they had two weekends or four days to qualify and the fastest car/driver combination on the first day got the pole, no matter what happened later.