The home race track has the best interests of the home tracks cars. The more cars the more nascar points. Its pretty simple.
It's not a points race for Delaware or NASCAR.
Interesting.
At first glance I don't realy see pit stall selection being much of a motivator. If you go in under caution you're at the end of the line anyway, so you're not really racing on or off pit road. (If I'm getting this correctly)
The 500 dollar guarantee for starting all 5 chase races also isn't much of a motivator, as it easily costs way more than that to run all the chase races....so you're not really making any more money.
The only one I can see as a real motivator is the "cant start pole if you just show up for the 200" and its pretty obvious that's just aimed at the borderline Delaware guys like Kennedy, Verhoeven and Watson to try and coerce them to come on the Friday nights leading up. We'll see how that works. Its a 200 lap race and if they consider that starting 10th is no worse than a dice inversion would be....
I dunno. Sounds way more complicated than it needs to be.
I'm still waiting for the day that the Great Canadian Race can gain the prestige of a race like the Oxford 250 or the Snowball Derby. And I thought they almost had it in getting rid of the invader/home team races. But they won't until every single car coming in the back gate has exactly the same opportunity and that there are no special guarantees for Delaware regulars.
I get what they're doing and understand why they're doing it, but the race isnt going to have that "hallowed" feel to it until they stop tying it into the Friday night program.
Just my opinion.
Trev,
It's a promoter's job to do the best they can to maintain momentum at a track, for fans and car owners. Delaware runs several special events, but only 1 that reflects home track 'defense' for bragging rights for a big event.
Because it can often be difficult getting home track cars to run at big events (wrecks), this is one way to encourage them to do so.
As for tying it in to the Friday night shows, that's a good idea, again to encourage local participation and fans cheering for them, since the majority of fans that do show up are locals; give them someone too root for. For many fans, to show up at a race, having few drivers from the area run at the event, defeats the purpose of coming to watch. If you bring in a ringer - like Kyle Busch - it's a different story, then ticket prices skyrocket and you can't have a big purse and appearance money for events like this.
Autumn Colours is an example. Over the last several years, very few regulars try to run the event (wrecks). At most maybe 5 or 6 cars try, the rest stay home (in the LLM class).
Just my opinion.........
thanks for the race reports!
The home race track has the best interests of the home tracks cars. The more cars the more nascar points. Its pretty simple.
It's not a points race for Delaware or NASCAR.
Correct but the races leading up to it are... LM counts are down a bit from the start of the season many drivers at this time of the year typically try to save their stuff and maybe dont come out here and there, this is another reason for drivers to show up in the races leading up to the GC200