NHRA Doing Away with it's Friday Top 12 Format?

[Paul]

1000 feet was smart? I DON'T THINK SO! The attendance took a HUGE HIT and has NEVER recovered.

Tell that to the Kalitta camp. 1,000ft was and is very smart and it sucks we lost Scott in order to mandate it.

 

[Butch]

Had the tracks improved as did the nitro performance. We would still have Scott.
Cars are going 100mph faster than when E-Town was built.
On another aspect, the average fan can't comprehend what he is seeing in 3.650 seconds. Just my thoughts.

 

[T.Smith]

It's not even worth talking about anymore. Under the current NHRA nitro rules, there will be no quarter mile racing.

 

[ironpony]

No disrespect to anyone here but 1000 ft track probably would not of changed the outcome of Scotts crash.

 

[SundayNiagara]

No disrespect to anyone here but 1000 ft track probably would not of changed the outcome of Scotts crash.

BINGO!

 

[Huge]

1000 feet was smart? I DON'T THINK SO! The attendance took a HUGE HIT and has NEVER recovered.

I wonder if 1000' was the reason Nascar took the same huge hit and never recovered?

 

[mgty3whlr]

Ticket prices and the price that the vendors charge wouldn't be a contributing factor would it?

But then again,They need to charge that much to pay the fuel bill so you can see Eugene on the East Coast! LOL!

 

[mgty3whlr]

A lot of tracks don't have the real estate to create a longer shut down area needed for the cars running today.
Maple Grove actually extended there shut down area across a back road including rail road crossing arms that come down when the pro classes run.
If they tried that in the Communist state of New Jersey, it would be shut down immediately being that the New neighbors already frown upon the track already.

 

[Paul]

No disrespect to anyone here but 1000 ft track probably would not of changed the outcome of Scotts crash.

An extra 320ft of stopping distance certainly wouldn't have made it any worse.

 

[Paul]

I wonder if 1000' was the reason Nascar took the same huge hit and never recovered?

ha ha, I just spit out my water all over my computer. Funny how both sports lost support at the same time, maybe it was 1000ft. lol

 

[Huge]

Ticket prices and the price that the vendors charge wouldn't be a contributing factor would it?

But then again,They need to charge that much to pay the fuel bill so you can see Eugene on the East Coast! LOL!

I drive slow so I get pretty good fuel mileage. I think my food bill is higher then our fuel bill.

 

[mgty3whlr]

I drive slow so I get pretty good fuel mileage. I think my food bill is higher then our fuel bill.

LOL! Is it your decision to drive slow or Jim's? Slower means more eye advertisement on the hauler per mile.

 

[Huge]

LOL! Is it your decision to drive slow or Jim's? Slower means more eye advertisement on the hauler per mile.

Driving is my relaxation time so I want to make it last as long as I can.

 

[mgty3whlr]

Merry Christmas and see you at E-Town !

 

[Toejam]

Exactly, and as stated on the page, it has actually hurt the small teams that had run quick enough to qualify in the late Friday session, but not in the Friday top 12.

I remember Jeff Diehl and the Greek getting jobbed over that!

 

[HEMI6point1]

Right now you have 4 qualifying spots guaranteed on Saturday. If conditions are great on Friday night and you don't run well and most others do, it maybe tough to make a good enough run to get in on Saturday. I have been on both sides of the Top 12 rule. There was a time years back that you really needed the Top 12 rule because if you missed the set up Friday night, you could run low ET on Saturday and still not make it in...didn't really make sense that you really only had one chance to get in. Now with the smaller fields, less night runs and way better track prep it's probably not an issue anymore. I always thought that if you wanted to make driver intro's more exciting that you would let the number 1 guy/girl pick who they wanted to race and then go to #2 and do the same until it was done. That would really create rivalries especially as you got closer to the Countdown.

I agree, the 12 spot format needs to be done away with. At first I was okay with it but now that it's been here a few years, I have seen too many drivers being screwed over by it.

As far as the idea of letting the top qualifiers picking who they want to race against? It is a cool idea until the top teams would consistently choose leakers knowing it would be an easy matchup.

 

[ironpony]

I never agreed with it, but i see the reasoning behind it.

 

[turbo ken]

16 poker chips in a bag, number two of them with a number 1, two with number 2, etc, and everyone picks a chip out of the bag. The two that have the same number that is the pair that race each other.

 

[none]

16 poker chips in a bag, number two of them with a number 1, two with number 2, etc, and everyone picks a chip out of the bag. The two that have the same number that is the pair that race each other.

Then why even bother qualifying? (not arguing, just asking)
Alan

 

[Butch]

I've seen this in Sprint Cars qualifying. Asked why was told it gives teams some extra track time to flex there muscle.