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Originally Posted by Jim Hawkins

So how does this work with the alternates? If you are on the outside looking in do you just pull up to the lanes for first round and you get to run if there is a no show? Is all this worked out in the lanes or what?

Exactly, everyone knows that alternates get in at Indy, many of the AH cars are primarily there for the shootout and attrition and even DQ's open up spots. The hopeful alternates essentially just show up in the rear of the lanes and when the pairings can't be filled because of no-shows they simply bring in the alternates. Most of the time they are pulled in qualifying order but it can get pretty chaotic back there, especially as next classes are called up.