[Mike Pearson]

What I have been told is the quotas are based off of the prior years entry numbers that attended. The quotas have been getting smaller each year due to this system. If you have a 65 car quota and it fills at 5 grade points when the event gets close there is always a percentage of cars that will drop out due to any number of reasons. Maybe a health or family issue or the car broke at a previous race and cant be repaired in time. Maybe a job related conflict. If no one fills the spots at the last minute then it appears that the class did not meet the quota and the next year they will reduce the quota to match the previous year. The quotas seem to be stabilizing at around 65 cars per sportsman class at most of the events. some are less. If you are near one of the big event areas that have a large amount of cars then you need a minimum of 5 grade points to even think about a national event. with NHRA bringing in the 10.5 cars and bracket cars at some nationals this will continue to get worse. Sometime in Stock they will raise the quota if the Factory Stock class is being contested to make sure they have enough of those cars for the show But the usually only open the additional spots to the FS cars.