[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

Bruce,

Good question, but in my opinion if stock and super stock are a performance based eliminator, I think the fastest car when running heads up does deserve lane choice. If the bye goes to the fastest car, then logically lane choice should go with it. I think the flip works just fine anytime you put a dial in on the window.

I know many times when I was the slower car, I would tell my opponent he had the lane choice.

In my situation I ask my opponent for lane choice because I was faster. He did not agree and we flipped, he seem kind of perturb that I even asked, so not to have any hard feelings I agreed with no argument.

To me it was logical to expect lane choice and I would have been glad to give it to him if he was the fastest. After class was over I ask many racers, and most said you flip for lane choice because that’s the way its always been. I guess its hard to buck tradition.

Kenny,

Racers should not make up their own rules and then try to enforce them on other racers. The first round of class is extremely important for many reasons. The most important being that it is the last round of qualifying and no one should be shut out from an opportunity to choose his/her lane.