[Cotten]

I very much like the idea of creating some inventive to set records and qualify well

As you probably know in the "old days" you were awarded points as your example for qualifying. When they went to the 10pts per round win rather than 100pts they eluminated it as I assume they felt it was weighted to heavily towards qualifying. As an example you could earn the equivalent points of being runner up at a race by qualifying number 1 eight times.

Perhaps the same system with fractional points i.e. 1.6 for number 1 1.5 number 2 etc.

Also a smaller number of points for records.

Perhaps in a more perfect world some of the manufacturers could pay contingency for records lol

I like the direction of your thinking.

Mike