Stage the Car?

[Angelo DiTocco]

You need to make a qualifying pass to race.... or at least stage your car to be put on the bottom of the sheet.... but you can get a grade point if you don't.
Example -
I few years ago I showed up to points meet on a Saturday to make the last Q session and run elims...... the starter broke when I got to the front of the staging lanes.... I wasn't able to make the run.....

..... I thought I could be put at the bottom of the sheet - but I found out that if that happens the rules say you can't run the race. They can't put you on the bottom of the sheet. They can only do that if the qualifying session gets washed out or cancelled....

Anyway - I was given a choice..... they keep the money and I get a grade point.... or..... a refund and no grade point.

So my guess is if you are paid up and tech in and don't make a run - you will still receive a grade point.

[bsimms89]

I was at Numidia this year for the National Open and the Divisional in July, I had signed up for both online and filled out both my tech cards online. Unfortunately on Thursday morning at the track during a test run I broke a rocker, bent a valve and caused some minor damage to the head. We packed up the car and got to Ray Barton's shop shortly after, pulled the engine, they repaired everything needed and we got the engine back in the car the next morning and were back at the track Friday evening. We missed making a qualifying or elimination pass for the National Open, but raced on Saturday and Sunday for the divisional.

Everyone I spoke with told me I should still get 2 grade points since I was there and filled out a tech card and paid for both races even though I was unable to make a pass for the national open, but after the fact when I looked I was only given 1 grade point for the weekend.

I've emailed the division office about it twice explaining what happened and asking whether I was entitled to 1 or 2 grade points, but have not received a response from them either time.

[Bruce Fulper]

Seems something like this should be standardized across all divisions. As often as I have heard different stories from different div directors it seems it should be as simplified as the lug nut rules

[Dave Muller]

For what it's worth at the Sonoma double divisional a few years ago someone broke into my truck after the first race in a mall parking lot. Between the stuff they took and getting the window they broke replaced I completely missed the second race. But I had paid and was teched in and I got my grade point.

[Rob Petrie E395]

Didn’t Kurt Busch just tech his car at a divisional. So he had a grade point and could run at the Charlotte national event a few years ago. If I remember right he couldn’t actually race. Because he had a cup race that weekend.

[Stock4106]

Originally Posted by Rob Petrie E395

Didn’t Kurt Busch just tech his car at a divisional. So he had a grade point and could run at the Charlotte national event a few years ago. If I remember right he couldn’t actually race. Because he had a cup race that weekend.

Kurt Busch's car was teched at the Atlanta divisional on the same weekend he won the NASCAR race in Atlanta. He entered and raced the Gators the next weekend.

[Bruce Fulper]

Thanks Dave. Good to hear you got the grade point. I'm still waiting on a c/b from Mike Rice