Congrats to Mark Faul

Jody Lang · 09-05-2011, 06:14 PM

1st thing good job Mark!

Just to clarify.

I've never ran for a track without actually running at least one of their "points" races. This was when the rule was that you only had to be at 1 race. I've also never ran an ROC without being in the top 4 or top 2 or whatever it was back in the early 90's. Mind you, I have seen where someone was in the ROC without ever going to that track.

What I have done in the past was run at least one points race at a track to qualify for the Sunday part of the ET Finals. After awhile this rule was changed. You now have to race a minimum of 3 races just to be in the Sunday race. This has sometimes turned into 3 trips to make sure I had enough points to qualify to be on the team. When I was trying to be on Team Madras these were 10 hour round trips.

From my point of view the 3 race minimum makes no sense. It takes away potential entries from the ET Finals. Especially now when there's not many full teams competing at that race in the 1st place.

09-05-2011, 06:14 PM	#38
Jody Lang Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 306 Likes: 28 Liked 89 Times in 28 Posts	Re: Congrats to Mark Faul 1st thing good job Mark! Just to clarify. I've never ran for a track without actually running at least one of their "points" races. This was when the rule was that you only had to be at 1 race. I've also never ran an ROC without being in the top 4 or top 2 or whatever it was back in the early 90's. Mind you, I have seen where someone was in the ROC without ever going to that track. What I have done in the past was run at least one points race at a track to qualify for the Sunday part of the ET Finals. After awhile this rule was changed. You now have to race a minimum of 3 races just to be in the Sunday race. This has sometimes turned into 3 trips to make sure I had enough points to qualify to be on the team. When I was trying to be on Team Madras these were 10 hour round trips. From my point of view the 3 race minimum makes no sense. It takes away potential entries from the ET Finals. Especially now when there's not many full teams competing at that race in the 1st place.