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Bobby DiDomenico · 06-22-2008, 10:03 PM

I have attempted to get Stk and SS Qualifying run off the handicap tree for the past few years. If you guys think the .90 classes are not exciting to watch with the throttle stop (and at Joliet we saw a few that coasted till the 330' mark before the throttle opened up again!!!) you need to skip a session and sit in the stands with all 47 spectators who stayed and watched. Wait, make that 42, since 5 fell asleep.

Just sit with the paying customers and watch them watch some of the Stocker boys kill it at the 1000' mark. The last two weekends at Joliet reinforced just how terrible of a show Stock time runs have become. And there is nothing like having a Stock class car which is going to not run all out be the last car down the track on a single. You think that is going to draw spectators and their hard earned money back to ever watch Stock Eliminator? If you do, think again! At least most of the SS cars still go all out down the track!

I'd sat at least begin using the handicap start for time runs, heck we have to wait for the slowest car anyway, why not make it interesting for the PAYING SPECTATOR!!!!!

The sand baggers? The quickest way to end it is the computer scrambles the cars for first round pairings making their sandbagging time run performance useless.

But what do I know, I'm just a guy who paid to get in and buy a burger and a coke. Why listen to me? Hm, let's see, $50 ticket, $6 burger, $6 fries, $6 beverage, walk 1-1/2 miles from your car to your seat. You don't think next time they might go see a nearby White Sox game instead and save money do you?

06-22-2008, 10:03 PM	#5
Bobby DiDomenico Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 924 Likes: 103 Liked 101 Times in 52 Posts	Re: Vote: Heads-UP in S/SS I have attempted to get Stk and SS Qualifying run off the handicap tree for the past few years. If you guys think the .90 classes are not exciting to watch with the throttle stop (and at Joliet we saw a few that coasted till the 330' mark before the throttle opened up again!!!) you need to skip a session and sit in the stands with all 47 spectators who stayed and watched. Wait, make that 42, since 5 fell asleep. Just sit with the paying customers and watch them watch some of the Stocker boys kill it at the 1000' mark. The last two weekends at Joliet reinforced just how terrible of a show Stock time runs have become. And there is nothing like having a Stock class car which is going to not run all out be the last car down the track on a single. You think that is going to draw spectators and their hard earned money back to ever watch Stock Eliminator? If you do, think again! At least most of the SS cars still go all out down the track! I'd sat at least begin using the handicap start for time runs, heck we have to wait for the slowest car anyway, why not make it interesting for the PAYING SPECTATOR!!!!! The sand baggers? The quickest way to end it is the computer scrambles the cars for first round pairings making their sandbagging time run performance useless. But what do I know, I'm just a guy who paid to get in and buy a burger and a coke. Why listen to me? Hm, let's see, $50 ticket, $6 burger, $6 fries, $6 beverage, walk 1-1/2 miles from your car to your seat. You don't think next time they might go see a nearby White Sox game instead and save money do you?