Stock & S/S scheduling

Greg Gay · 05-03-2024, 09:08 AM

At the Charlotte race, I noticed that Sportsman racers ran first thing in the morning, and then approximately 10 hours later. Scheduling like this seems to have started at the end-of-year Las Vegas divisional years ago, a race that is always facing a time crunch due to the number of cars. Then this sort of schedule started to appear on the west coast national events, whereas the east coast national events would run two or three rounds in the morning hours and finish by noon or early afternoon. Personally, I like the morning schedule and done-for-the-day better. I realize that Pros are the show and we need to be scheduled around them, but I really don’t need to be at the track to watch them. I generally watch one round of Pro Stock qualifying and one pair of nitro cars make a pass, and that is about it. It also makes dinner plans away from the track difficult. What are other people’s thoughts?

05-03-2024, 09:08 AM	#1
Greg Gay Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Vermont Posts: 349 Likes: 8 Liked 224 Times in 49 Posts	Stock & S/S scheduling At the Charlotte race, I noticed that Sportsman racers ran first thing in the morning, and then approximately 10 hours later. Scheduling like this seems to have started at the end-of-year Las Vegas divisional years ago, a race that is always facing a time crunch due to the number of cars. Then this sort of schedule started to appear on the west coast national events, whereas the east coast national events would run two or three rounds in the morning hours and finish by noon or early afternoon. Personally, I like the morning schedule and done-for-the-day better. I realize that Pros are the show and we need to be scheduled around them, but I really don’t need to be at the track to watch them. I generally watch one round of Pro Stock qualifying and one pair of nitro cars make a pass, and that is about it. It also makes dinner plans away from the track difficult. What are other people’s thoughts?