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Sandy Lowe (Offline)
  #41 4/2/11 11:05 PM
With more than 1 B Main they just alternate the cars into them.

B Main 1
Heat 1, 4th place - Heat 4, 4th place
Heat 2, 5th place - Heat 5, 5th place
...

B Main 2
Heat 2, 4th place - Heat 5, 4th place
Heat 3, 5th place - Heat 1, 6th place
...

B Main 3
Heat 3, 4th place - Heat 1 5th place
Heat 4, 5th place - Heat 2, 6th place
...

Everybody who doesn't make the feature runs in a B Main and they only have that one shot to make the feature.

With a B Main & C Main if you have problems in your heat (flat tire, etc.) you are fighting an uphill battle to make the feature. You would run the C Main and then start on the tail of the B Main. Usually when there is a C Main and a B Main they start 20 cars in the B Main. With 5 heats the C Main transfers would start 16th thru 20th and have to finish in the top 5.
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on_the_hammer (Offline)
  #42 4/2/11 11:06 PM
Does that mean jeff has 20 cars to bend up? Guessing it had plenty of money brought to it
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Speedracer (Offline)
  #43 4/2/11 11:07 PM
explained better by Sandy

Tim Watson (Offline)
  #44 4/2/11 11:10 PM
Originally Posted by Sandy Lowe:
With more than 1 B Main they just alternate the cars into them.

B Main 1
Heat 1, 4th place - Heat 4, 4th place
Heat 2, 5th place - Heat 5, 5th place
...

B Main 2
Heat 2, 4th place - Heat 5, 4th place
Heat 3, 5th place - Heat 1, 6th place
...

B Main 3
Heat 3, 4th place - Heat 1 5th place
Heat 4, 5th place - Heat 2, 6th place
...

Everybody who doesn't make the feature runs in a B Main and they only have that one shot to make the feature.

With a B Main & C Main if you have problems in your heat (flat tire, etc.) you are fighting an uphill battle to make the feature. You would run the C Main and then start on the tail of the B Main. Usually when there is a C Main and a B Main they start 20 cars in the B Main. With 5 heats the C Main transfers would start 16th thru 20th and have to finish in the top 5.
Thank you very much for the info Sandy, i owe you one. Is the two B Main thing something that we will see more of?
j_vennard54
  #45 4/2/11 11:11 PM
Hey, even if he did bring money, that's what everyone does now, it's the way of the world these days, sucks, but if you can get out there and hustle some sponsor money or otherwise which enables you to get a seat in a car as competitive as Walker's have always been, I say go for it, after having cars of our own for some time.. it would have been hands down cheaper to team up and just take the sponsors elsewhere and put the wear and tear on someone else equipment.

Just sayin..
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Sandy Lowe (Offline)
  #46 4/2/11 11:15 PM
USAC traditionally only runs 1 B Main because they limit the number of cars that run their heats (Sprint Week, etc.). When the top 40 qualifiers start a heat race they transfer the top 4 so that only leaves 24 cars remaining and they run one B Main.

I work at Bloomington Speedway & Lawrenceburg Speedway and for their regular shows they run either one or two B Mains depending on car count.
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on_the_hammer (Offline)
  #47 4/2/11 11:18 PM
I understand that, I'm just going off the past.... I hope he gets in that ride and wheels the hell outta it, but I'm just saying what I've seen
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Sandy Lowe (Offline)
  #48 4/2/11 11:23 PM
After the third and final B Main the super stocks came out to run their feature. During the race something happened in the grandstands where they needed the ambulance and security. They got that cleared up and resumed racing and then a street stock flipped. While under that red a couple of the drivers got in a fight. They still haven't restarted yet.
Tim Watson (Offline)
  #49 4/2/11 11:26 PM
Originally Posted by Sandy Lowe:
After the third and final B Main the super stocks came out to run their feature. During the race something happened in the grandstands where they needed the ambulance and security. They got that cleared up and resumed racing and then a street stock flipped. While under that red a couple of the drivers got in a fight. They still haven't restarted yet.
Sounds like a wild opening night for 2011.
Sandy Lowe (Offline)
  #50 4/2/11 11:34 PM
Super stock feature just ended. Sprints up next!

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FEATURE
35 Hunter Schuerenberg — 99 Brady Bacon
11D Dave Darland — 71 Damion Gardner
1B Justin Marvel — 53 Jon Stanbrough
36 Brady Short — 20 Levi Jones
5W Chris Windom — 89 Shawn Westerfeld
10E Shane Cottle — 81 Robert Ballou
68 Jonathan Hendrick — 22 Scotty Weir
5 Bobby East — 11G Dickie Gaines
7 Bryan Clauson — 71P Jerry Coons, Jr.
7S Jon Sciscoe — 37 Casey Riggs
10F Blake Fitzpatrick

Green flag!

Darland leads lap 1. With 4 laps in he has a half straightaway lead over Schuerenberg.

7 laps: Darland, Schuerenberg, Jones, Short, Stanbrough, Gardner, Bacon, Cottle, Marvel, Windom.

Yellow for East spin in turn 4. Darland & Schuerenberg a full straightaway ahead of Jones. 13 laps scored.

Restart: Darland, Schuerenberg, Jones, Short, Stanbrough, Gardner, Bacon, Cottle, Marvel, Windom, Gaines.

While still under caution Windom pulls into the infield.

Green flag. Schuerenberg jumps the cushion & Jones takes second.

Caution comes out (for Sciscoe) before another lap is scored so Hunter goes back to 2nd on restart.

Hunter pulls off under yellow. Ballou has a flat left rear.

Restart: Darland, Jones, Short, Stanbrough, Gardner, Bacon, Cottle, Marvel, Gaines, Hendrick.

Green flag. Darland still leads Jones with 13 laps scored.

Stanbrough around Short for third.

Stanbrough past Jones for second.

Halfway - 20 laps to go.

Cottle with slider on Bacon to move into 6th.

Caution for Ballou who slowed in turn 4 when left rear finally went flat.

27 laps scored: Darland, Stanbrough, Jones, Short, Gardner, Cottle, Bacon, Weir, Marvel, Hendrick, Gaines, Clauson, East, Coons, Jr., Schuerenberg, Riggs

Green flag, Cottle around Gardner for 5th.

Darland 5 car lengths ahead of Stanbrough.

Stanbrough starting to reel in Darland, less than a car length.

5 laps to go.

White flag - Darland leads.

Darland wins! Rounding out the top ten are Stanbrough, Jones, Short, Cottle, Gardner, Weir, Bacon, Marvel and Hendrick. Then Gaines, Clauson, East, Schuerenberg, Coons, Jr. and Riggs.

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Per Spridge's Twitter: Darland's start was a thing of beauty. Slid in front of Demon on start, cushion around Bacon then slid Hunter for lead into 3
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