[Chris1529]

[QUOTE=Matt Welker;407468]You already addressed my main concern/issue, Sat. T&T. Being grouped like that was dumb. I much prefer our own lane as we had in the previous years. I'm sure some missed the race on Sat. either stuck in the T&T lanes or having just made a run. I missed it.

I agree. We all knew that the way the track was doing it wasn't the way it had been done in the past.


I think there needs to be something different for the parings for round one. The track gets in way too big of a hurry to get round one in the lanes. An extra 15-30 minutes won't hurt anyone.

One other thing I'm really wondring is how was the bye run determined?



I have three suggestions:

1- give everyone who has entered the race ( paid money to you) a dedicated time trial and set your ladder by reaction times as you do after the first round for the round two pairings.

or

2- have everybody who has entered the race draw a number and do the ladder that way.

or

3-ask the track to let us come down four lanes. have a wheel to spin, or use cards, or do something more random than running the car who comes down beside you in the lanes. Fairmont Dragway (AKA Eldora) used a wheel to pick what two cars run each other.

any one of those suggestions would be better than the way its being done right now.

One more thing..... for first round the way it was done, if you went down lane 5, that meant you wanted to run left lane. If you went down lane 6, you should assume you were going to be in the right lane. Likewise, lane 4, right lane, lane 3, left lane.
I know of an instance where a car in lane 5 pulled into the right lane on the track and forced the other car in lane 6 ( who wanted to run right lane ) to run the left. The car that did that has been to this race before. He knows how it is supposed to work unless he had someone else driving and that individual was unaware of the sitution.