Black Tuesday?

[Bob Don]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Good reasons:

I must have heard this one a hundred times..whenever someone brings up doing away with heads up runs in eliminations : "It's supposed to be a performance based eliminator"


Think about this. A guy can go to Indy and be 180th qualifier (dead last) @ .06 under. He's a full second away from the slowest qualifier.
That same guy can go to the very next National event and win it.

Something's wrong with this picture.

Mark - That guy doesn't have to wait for the next national event. He could have a hell of a weekend with no heads up runs and win Indy THAT week! That's why they have an eliminator. Otherwise, they'd just issue checks to the lowest qualifiers.

The way I see it, the "performance based" aspect is that you have run a certain number to get in the show. Once you're in, anyone can win.