Marchboom
Nitro Member
As I have said before, when eliminations are run during the day, night qualifying is not the best way to set the field. I know, the fans love the flames. Well, so do I. BUT, look at the results during this year's Indy qualifying. Force, J.R., Whit, and W.J. all DNQ'd. This is not what the fans want to see. And this Countdown to the whatever crap makes it even worse.
Nearly every car makes at least one bad run during it's 4 (or 5) qualifying runs at each race. But if your bad run is during the night session, you're screwed. There was no way a car can run the same times during the day as they do at night. Those crew chiefs were having to put a VERY aggressive tune up in the car during the day qualifying and that caused many of them to just blow off the tires. This can also be dangerous as the chance for engine explosions is greater as they are putting everything they have into the car just to get the 16th spot.
And what does a team gain by qualifying at night? Data that will never be used because eliminations are not run at night.
Unless eliminations are run at night, the NHRA should get rid of night qualifying. I just wonder if some of the big teams might just demand that they eliminate night qualifying after what happened today.
Nearly every car makes at least one bad run during it's 4 (or 5) qualifying runs at each race. But if your bad run is during the night session, you're screwed. There was no way a car can run the same times during the day as they do at night. Those crew chiefs were having to put a VERY aggressive tune up in the car during the day qualifying and that caused many of them to just blow off the tires. This can also be dangerous as the chance for engine explosions is greater as they are putting everything they have into the car just to get the 16th spot.
And what does a team gain by qualifying at night? Data that will never be used because eliminations are not run at night.
Unless eliminations are run at night, the NHRA should get rid of night qualifying. I just wonder if some of the big teams might just demand that they eliminate night qualifying after what happened today.