I never have been able to hit a curve ball. This off-season/pre-season is gonna make me strike out!
i feel sick. NASCAR is starting to make sense to me.
RUN THE 16 FASTEST CARS... or 12 if it rains or whatever
I never have been able to hit a curve ball. This off-season/pre-season is gonna make me strike out!
I suppose. Drag racing is no where near as simple as the uninitiated would think. DO think. But where is this huge dangerous scoreboard going to go?
I think the complexity of it makes it all the more interesting.
Yeah - what T said. I just don't understand why there can't be a Saturday night session. If you have a problem on Friday, this should even things out...
this is a discussion board about the NHRA and we are discussing a change the NHRA is proposing about how racers are going to qualify for a race. Several of us aren't exactly happy with what is proposed and are voicing our opinions about it (freedom of speech and all that). There have been postings on this thread that are positive about the changes as well.
If you aren't happy with the content that is posted here, then start your own message board where you can sing praises to the NHRA all day long.
We all know how well the petition worked.
My thinking was take for instance Chicago last year where the bump was a 4.59 now the crew chiefs won't have to go for a mid 50 when there's no way the track will hold that kind of number. I'm not thrilled with this format (I would have preferred a late afternoon/early evening Saturday session) but it's better than giving provisionals to the top 10 or averaging the four qualifying runs together. The other point I was making was that at least there was a problem with the qualifying format that they are trying to address, whereas there was nothing wrong with the points system. I guess when it comes to Glendora I've adopted the theory expect the worse and when you get anything less it seems better than it really is.
ahh but there were changes made to your precious countdown weren't there
Lets call it the Litton-Zizzo rule. .
Here's a philosophy for ya if you are a "budget" team; sit out Friday and take your shot in 2 attempts on Saturday for 4 remaining spots.
Great idea if there are only 12-13 "good" cars
Wrong, at a lot of races last season it made you bring your A game to ONE session. Don't believe me, go to NHRA.com and read through last summer's qualifying results...............there was nothing wrong with the old format, it made you bring your A game to all sessions................
The problem with moving Saturday to a night session is you would also have to move Sunday's start time up to allow the teams to prepare and rest up for game day.Wouldn't it have been simpler to have moved the 4th session to Saturday evening?
So what, that most likely would have happened anyways without this change.so nothing is really locked in on Friday. If the weather does suck on a friday and everybody runs great on Sat then they could bump all of the 12 Friday time slots?
Moving Friday's to an earlier time slot? If that's what I'm hearing, that would be horrible for the fans. The only reason that they run Friday Nights is for the fans. Who wants the show to end before the sun goes down.Seems like it would have been easier to either move Friday's session up 30-60 minutes and move Saturdays last session back 30-60 minutes.
It wouldn't have made them the same time but at least closer. Either that or just say the top X amount from each day will make the field.
on the surface I'm not liking the way this reads but I'm willing to ride it out.
So what, that most likely would have happened anyways without this change..
Moving Friday's to an earlier time slot? If that's what I'm hearing, that would be horrible for the fans. The only reason that they run Friday Nights is for the fans. Who wants the show to end before the sun goes down.
Sorry PJ, you just took that out of context, perhaps I should have added this.......relax dude, not meant to argue just trying to make sure I understand it. Friday isn't really locked in at all then..........
I think the main issue with moving Saturday is it becomes another wasted run as far as data for Sunday's eliminations. I've heard alot of teams complain about running Friday nights, but it's there for the fans.
The fans would love a prime time, Saturday evening session. That would have been the easiest and simplest change.