Class lane choice etiquette

[Ken Miele]

The fastest car would be logical, but if you read the rules about the other sportsman classes they get to choose the lane based on performance and also get byes when qualifying number one. This is why I would think it would be the logical thing to do, if you car is fast, you get rewarded for your performance.

I am all on board if the rule is to flip, so be it I will flip.

[Lyn Smith]

IHRA did have the better qualified car gets lane choice rule up to a few years ago.They changed it to the coin flip also.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

I guess its hard to buck tradition.[/COLOR]

Since when? Should I start a list of how hard NHRA finds it to "buck tradition"?

[art leong]

I doubt they'll change it. But it might help the sandbagging a bit.

[Mickey Whaley]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

Bruce,

Good question, but in my opinion if stock and super stock are a performance based eliminator, I think the fastest car when running heads up does deserve lane choice. If the bye goes to the fastest car, then logically lane choice should go with it. I think the flip works just fine anytime you put a dial in on the window.

I know many times when I was the slower car, I would tell my opponent he had the lane choice.

In my situation I ask my opponent for lane choice because I was faster. He did not agree and we flipped, he seem kind of perturb that I even asked, so not to have any hard feelings I agreed with no argument.

To me it was logical to expect lane choice and I would have been glad to give it to him if he was the fastest. After class was over I ask many racers, and most said you flip for lane choice because that’s the way its always been. I guess its hard to buck tradition.

The fastest car is the one that wins class. It kills me when a driver says he is the fastest car then joe blow steps his car up and hands his *** to him that little qualifiying sheet right before class elim dont mean squat and yes you do flip for lanes.

[Bryan Worner]

Originally Posted by Mickey Whaley

The fastest car is the one that wins class. It kills me when a driver says he is the fastest car then joe blow steps his car up and hands his *** to him that little qualifiying sheet right before class elim dont mean squat and yes you do flip for lanes.

Until they get all tangled up down there!!!

[Mickey Whaley]

Originally Posted by Bryan Worner

Until they get all tangled up down there!!!

HAHA if i was bruce we would have tangled them up when he wouldnt flip for lanes

[Jason]

A staging lane guy once told me that if anyone has problems with someone wanting to flip for lanes, they want to know about it. Seems they have long memories... if you get my drift.