[Jason Oldfield]

I would probably be considered one of the younger generation, and honestly I never would have thought of it that way. I always thought of the class winners as the ones bumping themselves in.

Now, I don't have a dog in this fight, but it would seem to me that even if I had a fast car that I would want class winners to automatically get a spot. Only the first round of class eliminations counts towards qualifying, right? So, if I had a fast car but made a bunch of crappy runs before class eliminations (say, I was fighting a problem), class eliminations would actually give me an opportunity to still get in the show!

Now the question I have is, why have class eliminations at all if they don't really count for anything but a $500 check and a trophy? Not that I'm trying to get you guys screwed out of your money and trophy, but it seems that the whole reasoning for class eliminations just went right out the window.

I'm also curious to know how many racers actually got "screwed" by the old setup over the last 10 years. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't think it was more than a handful, and certainly not enough to change the rule for the hundreds of competitors in Stock and Super Stock...