How long has this rule been in effect?

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

I'm thinking when we first started running IHRA your lane choice was whoever was quicker in qualifying. 1999'ish. Only lasted a couple years, then they changed it to the way NHRA does it. Or am I dreaming this.?

When Tom Rix raced the '70 Buick in Top Stock we discovered IHRA used qualifying to award lane choice when at an IHRA National Event our competitor ran way slower then we did the previous round yet had lane choice. I believe it was changed later but I'm not positive.
I don't recall how it was at the Division 5 (?) races, Bill did a pretty good job with the starting line so with the slower SS '72 GS it wasn't a huge deal after we sorted out the car. Anatol may recall. In any case great times to race.

[Larry Hill]

In IHRA Top Stock the higher qualifier had lane choice in round one. The rest of the race the quicker car had lane choice . I think if it was a tie in ET the fastest MPH had lane choice.
We did not have lane choice many times or win a lot of rounds but for us, Jerry and myself, it was some of the best racing we ever did.

[pmrphil]

I remember waay back in IHRA, the guy at the head of staging had a deck of cards, pulled one card for each staging lane, the higher card had lane choice.

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

In IHRA Top Stock the higher qualifier had lane choice in round one. The rest of the race the quicker car had lane choice . I think if it was a tie in ET the fastest MPH had lane choice.
We did not have lane choice many times or win a lot of rounds but for us, Jerry and myself, it was some of the best racing we ever did.

I don't recall when Larry, they did change it sometime not long afterwards.

[Lyn Smith]

Originally Posted by Bobby DiDomenico

I don't recall when Larry, they did change it sometime not long afterwards.

Back when I had my 72 Buick GS IHRA Pure Stock car I could usually qualify at or near the top. I remember races that I made every run at a double points race in the same lane. This was around 2002-2005.