[HawkBrosMav]

I don't quite understand the ill attitude towards the suggested "Package Racing."

Isn't this all we are doing when not running a competitor in the same class now? Our goal is to have a .000 RT and run on our number with a "0." This would give us a .000 Package obviously and our intent is to run as close to this number each and every round we stage.

Due to the format we currently run with staggered starts and such we as racers have developed many different strategies to achieve this goal. Some...one could say even most depend on the performance of the driver in the other lane. But others blindly foot it out the back door as it is and hope their light and ET combo is small enough to beat the other guy no matter what strategy the other driver may be using..

I agree I wouldn't like this to be the norm.. I enjoy the finish line driving and the different ways we all race to get their first without going too fast.. but I will say with our current rules how many times do we see a guy go .002 dead 5 only to have the other guy go .002 dead 3, and they lose. We then watch the next pair have two RTs in the .060 range and both run 2 hun off their dial.. We all chalk it up to bad luck that round.. be kinda hard to have an off run ever if you have to have a package in the top half every round to keep advancing.. you wouldn't get a lucky break just cause the guy in the other lane went RED.

I'm still on the team of leaving our rules alone for the 99% of racing out there, but to think it would be any less competitive or you would need any less skill to win a package race is a little far from reality.. It would take the 1 on 1 bragging rights of lining up and taking a single competitor out but it sure would be exciting to have a decent package and then wait until the round is over to know if it was good enough to get you through to the next round. Be interesting to see how good a package would have to be each round to win a Stock or SS race with say 100 cars.

Brad