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Proposal for Barrie Thunders, Pure Stocks and Charger race procedures

Guest · 2008-11-09T00:06:45Z

Okay so maybe you all think I'm only a LLM guy and could care less about the rest of the racers at the track and that is why I made the post about the LLMs and ignore the majority of racers at teh track. You'd be wrong about that, the Thunders are usually the best show of the night and there is more good racing to be found in the fours as well.I think we need to kill the double heats in all of these classes as well. The same predictablity as in the LLMs is a big problem in the heats in all classes. I think that in general the heat racing is not as interesting for the fans as it could be.My approach is decidedly old school but that doesn't make it wrong.Here is how it goes:1. Split the field by percentage.2. 1st heat is the lower percentage guys and fhigh handicap cars start at the back.3. 2nd heat is the higher percentage guys and high handicap cars start at the back.4. Top 4 or 5 in each heat are qualified and go on to run a dash race, again fast cars to the back.5. Remaining cars to a consi or maybe two. The top 4 qualify (or top 2 if there are two consis).6. Feature line-up is based on handicap with the 12 qualified cars lined-up first, i.e. the high handicap is 12th (adjust this to be 12-14-16 if you like) and the remaining non-qualified cars start at the back again based on handicap.You still get points for the heats/dash/consi so there is incentive to race for it.Your first heat guys get a chance to race together and an opportunity to win without one of the fast guys messing things up due to the luck of the heat draw as is done currently.The fans get more interesting racing in the heats.The slow cars are not going to be running at the front in the feature start until they are no longer slow cars.

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Statsman

Nov 11, 2008 5:03 am

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Great idea, same way they ran it basically back in the 60's - 80's. Maybe Statsman should put his name in for the handicappers position, I heard they are looking for new people in the tower.

Back when I was only 17 and knew everything there was to know in the world I figured out that handicapping was not something I wanted to do beyond the one season I did it 🙂 I am constantly amazed that people like Craig at Barrie and Deb at Sunset have done this thankless job for so long. It is far from an easy job to do.

Thanks everyone for your feedback, I also sent the suggestions off to Jim at the Speedway and he said they would definitely be discussing them.

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Dusty

Nov 11, 2008 10:57 am

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I've seen it sooooo many times, The Duce on pole, Davies outside, St Onge second row. May as well sit aloneside of the 401. Any good racer loves cutting traffic to win. Ron Lipski had a bet at Flamboro back in the early eighty's. He started the main scratch. John would pay him $5.00 for every car he passed only if he won. I saw him win it a few times. I guess you just cant beat these polish pilots, A Jim, LOL.

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polishprince12

Nov 11, 2008 12:00 pm

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Great idea, same way they ran it basically back in the 60's - 80's. Maybe Statsman should put his name in for the handicappers position, I heard they are looking for new people in the tower.

Back when I was only 17 and knew everything there was to know in the world I figured out that handicapping was not something I wanted to do beyond the one season I did it 🙂 I am constantly amazed that people like Craig at Barrie and Deb at Sunset have done this thankless job for so long. It is far from an easy job to do.

Thanks everyone for your feedback, I also sent the suggestions off to Jim at the Speedway and he said they would definitely be discussing them.

could you pm me jim payettas email. thanks jim

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Thayne

Nov 13, 2008 8:02 am

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I've seen it sooooo many times, The Duce on pole, Davies outside, St Onge second row. May as well sit aloneside of the 401. Any good racer loves cutting traffic to win. Ron Lipski had a bet at Flamboro back in the early eighty's. He started the main scratch. John would pay him $5.00 for every car he passed only if he won. I saw him win it a few times. I guess you just cant beat these polish pilots, A Jim, LOL.

The nice thing with these rules are that they would start like 8th-ish...they still have to clear traffic but the chance of accidents lessen greatly.

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polishprince12

Nov 13, 2008 8:41 am

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I've seen it sooooo many times, The Duce on pole, Davies outside, St Onge second row. May as well sit aloneside of the 401. Any good racer loves cutting traffic to win. Ron Lipski had a bet at Flamboro back in the early eighty's. He started the main scratch. John would pay him $5.00 for every car he passed only if he won. I saw him win it a few times. I guess you just cant beat these polish pilots, A Jim, LOL.

amen to that my friend!haha

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