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Can anyone please tell me how the Speed bowl does there Feature line up. I was at the bowl Saturday night and Fox won the first Feature and started 7th in the second Feature. Gada finished 5th in the first one and started 5th in the second Feature. Pearl started behind all of them as did Pasteryak, in the second one. Mike Gada finished behind all of them and yet started behind all of them in both Features. It's like the bowl wants to have a 4 or 5 car battle for the Championship. Maybe this is why there car count is so low (18) cars total Saturday night. Everytime My race car won, we started 18th the next race. I was just hoping someone could explain it to me because I'm lost on this one. Thanks Richie.
They do the 3 week money won thing like most other track's Rich, ( Your last 3 finishes, if they wern't good you start up front, if there all top 5s you start near the back.) but with a couple of different "twist's". The one different thing they do that I think is ridiculous is at other area tracks if you win a feature you can't start better than 5th, at the Bowl you can win as many features as you want, and have 3 bad weeks in between an get a pole shot.
The other thing they do is they also use your heat finishes ( Once again most other track's the heats are just a show for the fan's.) to determine your start in the feature they call it some kind of "tier" system. If you finish in the "tier" which is depending on how many cars are there usually top 4 or 5 in your heat race you get to use your 3 week money won handicapping in the feature, if you finish out of the tier (Top 4 or 5 in heat) you start feature in the back like a consi car per say.
The tier system kindof cleaned up the features though. When they take 4-5 cars out of each heat it's a better chance that 8-10 good cars will start in the top 10, it's helped the racing, at least the wrecking and cautions part of it.
The start of the first feature you saw was a bit mixed up, a few cars got shuffled back in the opening laps when it originally started the week before.
The reason for Mike Gada is when they do not have qualifying they only handicap the top 10 cars in points.
That's another one that you brought up Warren, a few of the other area track's handicap the top 20 in points when they don't have heat's, the Bowl use's the top 10.
Your welcome Rich, glad we could help out some. A lot of this stuff is confusing as all hell. As an example, when someone try's to explain how the whole NDWS regional point thing work's, I think my head spins around backwards. Way to complicated for this character.
