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Originally Posted by Greg Hill
Alex how can they run heads up when there are random pairings. Maybe after 3rd round when the cars are laddered.
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There's no reason why cars can't be laddered 1st round, and with a "Re-Entry"-style buyback program, buybacks race each other in a separate round BEFORE 2nd round, with only the winners advancing to Rnd 2. (ie., if you have 80 cars, 40 lose 1st round, if 50% of the losers (20) pay to Re-Enter, only 10 advance to Rnd 2, so Rnd 2 would have a total of 50 cars) Everyone has to EARN a round to go into 2nd round. There's no reason to not have another ladder generated for 2nd round, which would take us through to the end.
I'm a bracket racer that runs S/SS. I would prefer to keep S/SS events of any kind with no buybacks, HOWEVER, you have someone putting on a $200 entry for $5,000 to win GUARANTEED purse... with the track record of support that racers have been (not) showing, it's hard to blame them. Personally, I'd like to see a car count minimum on it saying "No buybacks if over XX cars", but hey, it's a trial run.
It's probably also worth pointing out that if S/SS racers are so adamantly against buybacks, then nobody will buy back, so it will become a no buyback race by definition.
It's like saying you don't like cheese, so you won't go to a hamburger joint that offers cheeseburgers. Uh, just get the hamburger then.
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On the class run offs, that is a dead issue with IHRA.
I begged, pleaded, and even demanded of Mike Baker that we race for class and he flat won't change his mind. Says there are not enough cars showing up to warrant the time.
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If there are not enough cars, it would stand to reason that it wouldn't take much time to run it. Just my opinion.
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How long would it take to pick out the re-entrys from the original q- sheet and make a re-entry ladder ? Problem solved..
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The only issue I can see is someone not wanting to Re-Enter if they think they MIGHT have a heads-up, but have no way of knowing until well after they've bought back, and people wouldn't have time to prepare accordingly. I don't have a problem with it either way (ladder or random for the Re-Entry round), but someone in a populated class might.
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You are still paying the same entry you would otherwise and running for 5 times more money.
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Chip, you don't have a Stocker anymore, therefore your math must not be right! j/k You and your facts!
$.02,