How important is qualifying???????????????

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by JP1738

You know you can bracket race literally anything, right? I once bracket raced my mom's Ford Freestyle
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I'm not talking about your nor your mom's daily driver, they ain't showing up to compete at BIG $ bracket races like the flings and if one does show up they ain't winning.

I'm talking about dedicated, purpose built bracket cars, top bulb race cars and they are not street legal. So yes about $40k on the low end and $175 on the high end. Yea you can do it cheaper, just like you can race a "dime rocket" in stock but who really wants to and those cars aren't winning races much less championships in either venue today.

[Mike Taylor 3601]

How important is qualifying? Is a good question, with lots of answers, many have no right or wrong answers. If you like to be fast, then #1 is your spot and always give you the highest possibility of a bye run first round..
full field qualifying definitely is important or you don't race, so that probably be when it is most important..
Playing the ladder for possible bye or avoiding someone can help, but is a crapshoot that you can get one of the spots you need, no harm in trying.
I understand all these strategies, for the most part.
Alot of my strategy is really simple..... keep it simple, don't overthink it.....drive the best I can....none of it matters if you don't have some luck...then some days or years I just can't drive...

[j gardiner]

There might be a lot of bracket racing going on, but stock and especially super stock are not bracket cars. If my stocker was a bracket car only, there would be a lot of things I would be changing on it.

[1320racer]

But it IS bracket racing

[jmantle]

Yea you can do it cheaper, just like you can race a "dime rocket" in stock but who really wants to and those cars aren't winning races much less championships in either venue today.[/QUOTE]

I put my "dime rocket" together for less than 8K 2008 dollars and I've done ok. If I was 40 years younger and a better driver, I'd probably done a lot better. And yes for me it's been a shoe polish show, never had a heads up.

[STK1217]

1320 You have to be the biggest ***** H0L3 on this earth did you some how think you took the GRUMP'S place in the automobile world with all of your I know everything and you all are a bunch of dumb a$$es, Keep looking in the mirror and stroking your Carrot face it you have done shi$ in racing S or SS and your son has done everything in the 90 classes Nuff Said.

[1320racer]

Jim, I like when I'm quoted because it unhinges some here.

If you're happy being a 1st and 2nd round player more often than not, then I would a agree, you've done ok. BTW, that $8k would be over $12k today

Mario, clearly you don't leave the rock you live under. but at least you acknowledged that my former super stocker is badass

Originally Posted by STK1217

Nice ride 1320

[Chuck Weissberg]

Originally Posted by jmantle

Yea you can do it cheaper, just like you can race a "dime rocket" in stock but who really wants to and those cars aren't winning races much less championships in either venue today.

I put my "dime rocket" together for less than 8K 2008 dollars and I've done ok. If I was 40 years younger and a better driver, I'd probably done a lot better. And yes for me it's been a shoe polish show, never had a heads up.[/QUOTE]


Sweet car, bye the way

[Pauley]

can we come to an agreement and say that class racing is a glorified bracket race with a twist of taking old parts and making them haul a22 for what you are working with.

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