Class Nationals event planning

[Mike Carr]

Originally Posted by boostedf22c

What's the Quick 32 race about?

Is it ran like comp?

Sorry if this has been covered before.

Carey, I'm not sure how Michael has it planned.

At the US Class Nat'ls in 2001, yes, it was run like Comp. Quickest 32 qualifiers, handicapped off the Class Index (like Comp), no breakout, first one there wins. There was no CIC (no penalty for running so-far under). The #1 and 2 qualifiers made it to the final in each Class. 1 beat 2 in Stock, 2 beat 1 in S/S because of the 6 pm curfew and the short cool-down time between rounds hurt Rich Oakes (he had four tenths on the field in his SS/DS car, but the car bogged in the final from too much heat...was spitting antifreeze out on the fender).

Using old Indexes (A/SA 11.30 instead of 11.00), a good CIC point to use would probably be -1.00 under. So if an A/SA wins round 1 going 10.200, their Index is now 11.20 (down from 11.30) for round 2, and so on. This will help level the playing field somewhat (look at the CIC race in Belle Rose every year) and keep the one or two super-fast cars from dominating.