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

[Nick_Siebert]

If you have a fast car AND you know how to read a Q sheet and how it will correlate with the eventual latter (ie. where byes are and where advantageous draws are) then it absolutely is an advantage.

If you have a fast car and just air it out it every pass and let the cards fall where they may...then it is just dumb luck.

[GUMP]

Originally Posted by VE6DRW

For the rest of us, we're bracket racers with nice cars who just enjoy the sport.

Are you really? Would you then say that you don't study how the rest of our community is performing? Do you not dream up ways to find another tenth? Is the drama that surrounds class eliminations just boring to you? Is your qualifying ritual to just run whoever you get, even if it's a heads-up loss? Do you tell all your friends that you are a bracket racer or a class racer?

(Not really aimed at you, but my questions to all that just try to shrug off what we do as "just another bracket race"....)

[j gardiner]

I had 3 heads up runs 1st round this past year, so yes I would say it is somewhat important.

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by VE6DRW

we're bracket racers with nice cars who just enjoy the sport.

TRUTH and FACTS!

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by 1320racer

TRUTH and FACTS!

Since you know everything and you are the SELF appointed expert on CR , when Mr Sorensen raced Mr Langdon out west….were they Bracket Racing ???

[GUMP]

Originally Posted by 1320racer

TRUTH and FACTS!

On this particular subject you are WAY out of your league. You are an outsider looking in. Until you have tried to run a Stocker or Super Stocker at a serious level, you words hold no credibility on this matter.

I would love to see what your team can do in this arena....

[1320racer]

1. I’m not out of my league, I’m quoting those who race stock eliminator and

2. We’d kill it!

[GUMP]

Originally Posted by 1320racer

1. I'm not out of my league, I'm quoting those who race stock eliminator and...

Quoting and DOING are two different stories. In all things we find both positive and negative people. I feel the positive people tend to have more fun.

2. We'd kill it!

Then bring it....

[1320racer]

Be careful of what you ask for.

[Dan Bennett]

I will never forget how surprised I was when I finally met Toby Lang at Seattle in the early 90s. He showed me the thick notebook containing ladder combinations for various numbers of cars in the field. It was absolutely something I'd neve considered in my heads up days but thought it was genius.

The only time I'd seen one before was in the tower being used by race control.

Yes, they were(are) very good racers but I'm sure that 1) keeping track of things like this and 2) having the minds to realize it was a factor affected their racing. History proves it out.