You folks that get to attend tracks up north should really count your blessings that DON't have to watch endless laps of qualifying. Attended the Ultimate Super Late Model race at Dixie last night forgetting how much they qualify now. For those who don’t know, they run the following classes and this was how they determined the line up for their features.
Ultimate Supers - Qualified
Steelhead/525s - Qualified
604 Crates - Qualified
602 Sportmans - Qualified
Economy Bombers - Qualified
Stingers - Draw and run
Thank God they ran two heats for the supers at least to determine starting spots 11th on back for the Ultimate feature. Stingers are FWD cars and I have no idea why they still call econo Bombers econo Bombers. They too look just like late models and are anything but Bomber cars. The Ultimate feature was a pretty good race at least. Aaron Ridley led the opening laps before being passed on the high side by Austin Horton. Casey Roberts ran him down in traffic and looked to be faster at the end but ran out of laps.
As much as the qualifying sucked seeing all the bad luck Michael Page encountered make it worth the $15 admission. Light at the scales after qualifying and he seemed to piss off Zach Mitchell in their heat race as he raced him very aggressively on the start. While I thought it was just hard racing, I’ve seen Michael get more angry for less when on the other end. He ended up getting caught in a turn 1 crash on the first start and never completed a lap in the feature.
Other than that though, WAY too much Qualifying and too many classes that overall look exactly alike. I’m sure the drivers would throw a tantrum if they tried to go back to heats I. The lower divisions so don’t know what they could do. At least change up the classes or something. Used to love this joint.