Joliet Stock 4 heads-up RD 1

Ty Webb · 06-08-2007, 11:47 PM

I'm not talking about trying to race a certain person. I'm just tallking about trying to find a safe quadrant to avoid a first round heads-up. It does not always work, but you can try.

You need to use information available to you like Nitro Joe's Stats and the Bernie Cunningham Ladder book. Check the qualifying sheets and follow along with the I-Card info.

This race was a good one to work the system. Three rounds of qualifying on one good weather day. And most importantly, there is no class eliminations! All bets are off on that one.

Let's take Mickey Whaley as an example. Mickey has a #4 on the window. He's a good and smart racer! After two sessions he was real close to having to race Jerry Stealy first round heads-up. Indy class winning Carlton Sweasy and George Widuch weren't too far away either in H/SA. Jerry didn't look to be moving to the top which made the bottom of the top half and the top of the bottom half not a bad place to be for Mickey. It looks like Mickey played it smart and considering the weather, adjusted his car to pick up about a tenth of a second (.09). This placed him in the 40th position in a 81 car field. He had to run the #80 qualifier, who was running a little over the index during qualifying at this race.(No guarantees)

Mickey is now in the third round and has to race Russell Linke who has had two heads-up races so far. Now does Bubba go back to qualifying mode which may have been his bracket mode or does he keep his tune-up that got him there?

If you think this was done by accident and not intentionally maybe you do need the class. This stuff happens frequently in highly populated classes which is generally not SS/L.

It looks like that Jason McCormack / Kevin Helms A/S final is still a possibility. That would be a good race, let alone a final. Jason qualified 54 and Kevin 63 and I'm sure they both have a bunch left to spare.

06-08-2007, 11:47 PM	#5
Ty Webb Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: WV Posts: 41 Likes: 0 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post	I'm not talking about trying to race a certain person. I'm just tallking about trying to find a safe quadrant to avoid a first round heads-up. It does not always work, but you can try. You need to use information available to you like Nitro Joe's Stats and the Bernie Cunningham Ladder book. Check the qualifying sheets and follow along with the I-Card info. This race was a good one to work the system. Three rounds of qualifying on one good weather day. And most importantly, there is no class eliminations! All bets are off on that one. Let's take Mickey Whaley as an example. Mickey has a #4 on the window. He's a good and smart racer! After two sessions he was real close to having to race Jerry Stealy first round heads-up. Indy class winning Carlton Sweasy and George Widuch weren't too far away either in H/SA. Jerry didn't look to be moving to the top which made the bottom of the top half and the top of the bottom half not a bad place to be for Mickey. It looks like Mickey played it smart and considering the weather, adjusted his car to pick up about a tenth of a second (.09). This placed him in the 40th position in a 81 car field. He had to run the #80 qualifier, who was running a little over the index during qualifying at this race.(No guarantees) Mickey is now in the third round and has to race Russell Linke who has had two heads-up races so far. Now does Bubba go back to qualifying mode which may have been his bracket mode or does he keep his tune-up that got him there? If you think this was done by accident and not intentionally maybe you do need the class. This stuff happens frequently in highly populated classes which is generally not SS/L. It looks like that Jason McCormack / Kevin Helms A/S final is still a possibility. That would be a good race, let alone a final. Jason qualified 54 and Kevin 63 and I'm sure they both have a bunch left to spare.