Originally Posted by sprint17jr:
If you finish in the top four in your heat, you transfer to the feature. Feature lineup is mostly based on qualification time. Haud had a slower qualifying time so he starts near the back. The fastest 6 qualifiers that make it through their heats start in the top 6 of the feature. Fastest starts 6th. 2nd fastest starts 5th. Chase was fast qualifier, but didn't finish in the top 4 in his heat, so he could not start in the top 6. He did transfer through the B, and since he was the fastest qualifier that didn't transfer through the heat, he will start 7th.
It drives me crazy when you don't qualify through your heat race, but get your time back. There is no way the winner of the B main should start in front of the winner of a heat race.
Originally Posted by Jonr:
It drives me crazy when you don't qualify through your heat race, but get your time back. There is no way the winner of the B main should start in front of the winner of a heat race.
Using this logic, one could argue that there is no way someone who qualified 24th should start in front of the fastest qualifier of the night. Then you end up with the fastest car on the pole of the heat race and feature and that's not exciting to watch!
The heat races are lined up with a 6 car inversion. The heat 1 pole sitter qualified 21st and the quick qualifier starts 6th. It doesn't really matter where you finish in your heat as long as you make the top 4. Then the cars that do not transfer are lined up by qualifying time in the B main. For instance, last night Stockon was quick qualifier and started 6th in the first heat, didn't transfer through, and started on the pole in the B. It is a system that rewards qualifying and prevents sandbagging. But it is a system that leaves the heat race battles for positions 1-3 to be irrelevant.
Originally Posted by Jonr:
It drives me crazy when you don't qualify through your heat race, but get your time back. There is no way the winner of the B main should start in front of the winner of a heat race.
The winner of the heat all too often started on the pole, which means he was 21-24 in time. I think making the B winner start behind the front 6 is a good compromise.
Originally Posted by Jim Gardner:
The heat races are lined up with a 6 car inversion. The heat 1 pole sitter qualified 21st and the quick qualifier starts 6th. It doesn't really matter where you finish in your heat as long as you make the top 4. Then the cars that do not transfer are lined up by qualifying time in the B main. For instance, last night Stockon was quick qualifier and started 6th in the first heat, didn't transfer through, and started on the pole in the B. It is a system that rewards qualifying and prevents sandbagging. But it is a system that leaves the heat race battles for positions 1-3 to be irrelevant.
Originally Posted by DAD:
"THERE AIN'T NOTHING FAIR IN RACING OR LIFE" for that matter! we just got to make the best of the hand we are delt and play it out.
Honest Dad himself
Opinions are like a** holes DAD, everybody has one. We get it. Some are just bigger than others. JMHO
Is there anything at all you like about USAC sprint car racing ? It has been this way for as long as I can remember, and we pick now to complain....where were you in 1973 when this was going on....hahahahaha...people back then didn't complain...they just sat back and enjoyed the racing.
I am not a fortunate as you guys because all I have to watch is wing racing. I would trade places with any of you in a heartbeat no matter who starts where.
Susan St. Catherine
