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kb78 (Offline)
#10 4/21/25 2:45 PM

Originally Posted by spankytoo:
The rules are not designed to promote good racing. They're designed to protect the 10-12 drivers that follow the series.

Get in a wreck in your heat race? Well if you qualify near the front, you're guaranteed a front row starting position in the b-main, even though the rest of the b-main is set up by finishing order of the heat race. This protects their drivers.

Then you transfer to the A main event, and you're given the qualifying position back, but I believe you can't start in the first 5 rows. Meaning the best you can start is 11th.

This is spot on, every series has the rules set up to protect their own which makes sense. I liked it a couple years ago when you had to get to the top 4 to transfer, it seemed to promote the quick qualifiers coming forward. But that is not always easy depending on the track or the cars that are in front of you in the heat, so you can still start 11th in the feature so you are not penalized too badly.

The heck of it is that USAC has a better system than anyone right now IMO, in the winged world the fast guy starts on the front of everything.

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