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Originally Posted by Ian Hill
I was impressed when we went down to Numidia last year for the Combo in Hills race. Once the stock/ super stock combo and .90's nats were done....yes done!!!! the stands started filling, the daily driver street cars started coming in and everyone was generally in a great mood. They have a weekly bracket street car auto bracket race, street car stick bracket and an open comp bracket race for cars with open headers and slicks. The stands were full. i think they chage a couple bucks a head and don't allow coolers. From what i remeber the stands were packed more than i have ever seen to watch a bracket race! I enetered my stocker in the bracket race and raced against an outlaw 55 chevy, a top dragster, a crap load of supe pro cars, made it to the finals! and hade a blast. Funny thing though, the stands were empty the rest of the weekend.
Don, you were there!
Ian
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open comp is a bracket race with no breakouts at most tracks. you run time trials and then the track takes a tenth off your fastest run and that is your dial. Most tracks if you go faster than a tenth under in eliminations, you do not lose the race, you only loose another tenth, 1st to the finish line wins.
Problem with any type of dial in race where you are not allowed to breakout is fans do not want to be bothered trying to figure out why the 1st car to the finish line lost, that is why all of the popularity of the heads up outlaw classes, 1st to the finish line wins.
Want to get fans in stands, make less classes and run off all classes heads up then use indexes in later rounds and base index on fastest run in each class up to that point. The problem with this type of racing, as it was in early seventies, most money usually wins in heads up races, racers stop showing up and look for another place to race, usually bracket racing which no one wants to watch and it is full circle to where it is today, stock and super stock is bracket racing that no one wants to watch.
Do not believe me about heads up racing, Maryland international dragway gets over 10,000 fans to their race in early november, which is all heads up racing.