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Originally Posted by thomas sheehan
Art.... I agree with you on most points (ex....like more rds in combo gets less points).
HOWEVER... If you read the rules again, you will notice that 17 cars gets you 90 points in the combo. I read this after I entered Maple Grove in GT/IA (2 cars in class got me 85 points). If I would have entered in GT/JA (class I was in for 2 races prior to that event), It would have made it an 18 car combo field (me and other GT/IA racer would have added 2 more to combo class) thus awarding the winner 90 points instead of usual combo 80 points (for less than 17 car field). I could have wrapped up the SS automatic points chase if I would have won that 5 rd race. No one at Vegas could have got 90 points because all the class fields in SS are under 17 cars.
I wish I would have known that prior to the race.
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Tom I understand that. But you would have had to go 5 rounds to make 5 more points than the guy that ran one round. I don't care how good the driver or the car is thats 5 times that something can go wrong. At the Grove years back It rained and I got there a little late. They were running the qualifying round of stock while I was stuck behind a few super gassers (in the field). I really wasn't worried because I was the only car in the class. I had a vacuum line pop off and I didn't run the index. I didn't get to run the eliminator (only 128 cars there were 132). I was not a happy camper. I went to Cecil the next day for some T&T and went. way better than 2 seconds under on the first pass.
So things can happen. Plus the fact that in the combo classes there are cars that completely control their own destiny. If they take a tenth and a half away if you've got 5 in the bank it doesn't hurt.