Hey guys. I've been reading this website for a long time and really enjoy it so I finally joined. At any rate, I've been going to the burg for a few years now, its where I got my first taste of sprint cars and dirt racing all together and I've been hooked ever since. I was just thinking with the current configuration if it would speed up qualifying if the cars were pushed off from the infield rather than turn four. Just a thought.

Mike

Is the qualifying that time consuming? Thirty seconds a car max?? I enjoy watching qualifying, as this is where your drivers are ballz out, hold your breath for a minute laps. A big part of my racing evening. JMO.

Whats the difference if the racing starts at the advertised time anyway?

I gotta say one thing, I hate the group qualifying. Would rather see the individual or none at all.

It was cool seeing BC go out first saturday night setting quick time. Watching 32 other cars try to beat it and then DD qualifying DEAD LAST and setting QUICK TIME! You really can't follow more than one or two cars in the Group thing. Also other cars can interfear with faster ones.

Chuck

I agree that group qualifying is a disaster :thumbsdown:.
Single car is the way to go, it's fast paced, all eyes on him, balls to the walls:Steer
IMHO qualifying should be solely about the ability of one driver, he should not have to worry about another car messing up a clean lap:checkered:

Group qualifying is ignorant.

well guys i think what he is trying to say is the cars have a hard time making the exit out of the track. right hand turns a sprint cars don't see eye to eye. as a driver i know i would like to see them have us pull into the infield after we make our run......but no biggie i have done it before i will do it again

First, welcome aboard bluegrasssprintfan to IOW.

Second, my reading comprehension is not always so good, but I think he is asking about if pushing the sprinters off from the infield would be a better idea. I would think that you would have to bring all the cars into the infield first, right? The qual one at a time and exit at the end of the qual run. It might work.

Third, how did this simple thread turn into a this sucks or that sucks thread?:confused::rolleyes:

I guess I must be in the minority on this subject.

I do enjoy single car qualifing, but group qualifing helps safe the track.

Hot laps and then qualify uses up a lot of track, if doing away with single car qualifing saves the track and makes for better racing, I am for it.

This is not the good old days, when it got dark at 8:00PM and you could use calcium chloride. Save the track and have better racing.

Ignorant? Really??

When it's done correctly group qualifying works perfectly fine, saves the race track and speeds up the program. I like single-car qualifying too and was against the group method being used at my home track to begin with. But after seeing group quals over a period of time and seeing it perfected (cars of the same caliber grouped together, etc.), I started to like it. And its purpose was really hammered home after seeing last year's Sprintweek show at Kokomo: 55 cars, two laps apiece took forever and the top was close to worn out at the end of it. Coming back the next week for a local show, you really got a good idea of how efficient the group format is.

I Agree 100%. I like the group qualifying better myself as well. Personally I like F1 qualifying format better than anybodies. My favorite portion of the racing programs are hot laps and of course the racing. Single car qualifying is when I make a trip to the concession stand. Pretty boring! To each his own..I guess.