So, Indy 2020...

[Billy Nees]

Class winners in and fill the field with fastest qualifiers?

[Jeff Swanson]

Yes please

[Steve Polhill]

No Thanks. Go Fast or Go home.

[Andy Friar]

Originally Posted by Steve Polhill

No Thanks. Go Fast or Go home.

I agree with Steve.



It is called the 'Big Go' not the 'What I did last year Go'...I don't race Indy because I can't currently afford the time or money to do what it takes to be able to earn grade points to enter the race, and then possibly harder, to actually run fast enough to qualify. I don't want to minimize the biggest class race in Drag Racing or change how hard it is and the feat it is to win it though. If we don't like the current setup, then we don't have to go. There is plenty of people clamoring to get in to be able run, the field is crazy fast and the racing is really competitive. Isn't that what we all really want at the 'Big Go'?



I have already marked out on the family calendar (starting the permission slip process with Mrs Friar) to go next year as a spectator for Thu & Fri with my Dad.

[Dwight Southerland]

Originally Posted by Steve Polhill

No Thanks. Go Fast or Go home.

Nope. This is not Comp Eliminator. Why have classes if they don't count? And don't argue about fairness; fair is only where the ball is hit in baseball. A car that runs a sec under and gets beat in class elim is no more qualified to run the eliminator than a car that runs .3 under for a trophy.

[TOM KASCH]

well said Dwight,
class winners should all get in then fill the field.

[Ed Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

Nope. This is not Comp Eliminator. Why have classes if they don't count? And don't argue about fairness; fair is only where the ball is hit in baseball. A car that runs a sec under and gets beat in class elim is no more qualified to run the eliminator than a car that runs .3 under for a trophy.

Bang! U got it

[Bob Mulry]

I believe that Paul Simon said it best:

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

or you could say...

One man's fast is another man's slow.

[KEN BUGAJ]

Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

Nope. This is not Comp Eliminator. Why have classes if they don't count? And don't argue about fairness; fair is only where the ball is hit in baseball. A car that runs a sec under and gets beat in class elim is no more qualified to run the eliminator than a car that runs .3 under for a trophy.

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I've been to indy a number of times in the 70's, 80's and 90's been on both sides of this.
It's always been class winners and top qualifiers. The L & N cars should race.
They've paid all the expenses to enter and travel. Never did I win class and not be able to race. How do these people go home and explain
what happened. Well Dad, I won class but I couldn't race because my car wasn't
fast enough.

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Steve Polhill

No Thanks. Go Fast or Go home.

That's right. If you lose in class , go fast or go home ( or at least to the back of the bus)