Different Qualifying Format For The Last Night Of The USAC Sprint Cars @ BRP
Interesting format of the final night for the USAC National Sprint Cars at BRP in Ocala, FL.
Fairly simple and somewhat interesting. Looking forward to seeing how it works out!
Five drivers are locked into Saturday's $10,000-to-win Winter Dirt Games XII finale, having secured the first five starting births after earning the most combined points throughout Thursday’s and Friday’s USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car events at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Fla.
The drivers include high point man Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.), plus Thursday’s winner Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Ala.), Brady Bacon (Broken Arrow, Okla.), Tanner Thorson (Minden, Nev.) and Tyler Courtney (Indianapolis, Ind.).
Throughout the first two nights of the Sprint Car portion of Winter Dirt Games XII, drivers accumulated points each time they were on track – in qualifying, preliminary events and feature races.* The points from Thursday’s and Friday’s events have been totaled and have set the starting lineups for Saturday night’s event on Feb. 13, which will culminate with the first 35-lap feature run by the series since a 2006 victory by Darren Hagen at Anderson (Ind.) Speedway.
The points system on Thursday and Friday was utilized solely for the purposes of setting Saturday’s starting lineups.
Saturday night’s program will have no qualifying, and will instead consist of three qualifying races, each 10 laps in length, lined up “straight-up” based on total combined points from the first two nights.* The lineup will snake with 6th overall in points on the pole of the first qualifying race, 7th in points on the pole for the second qualifying race and 8th in points on the pole for the third qualifying race, and so on.
The top-four finishers from each qualifying race will transfer to the feature.* Those finishing 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th or 9th in each qualifying race will be placed into the semi-feature.* Those finishing 10th on back in each qualifying race will be placed into a 10-lap C-Main, if needed, where the top-3 finishers will transfer to the semi-feature and occupy the final three starting positions of that race.
The winning drivers of each qualifying race will transfer into a dash with the top-5 locked in drivers.* Starting positions for the dash will be drawn for with the qualifying race winners selecting first when they stop for their winner’s interview, followed by the lock-ins.* Positions 1 and 2 on the front row for the feature will only be available in the draw to the five drivers previously locked in.* The finish of the 8-car, 4-lap dash will determine the first 4 rows of the feature.
The top-5 finishers from the 12-lap semi-feature will transfer into the night’s feature, filling the final five positions in the feature starting lineup.
The feature will consist of 22 cars (not counting up to two provisionals) and 35 laps, as determined by the finishing order of the dash – 1st place finisher starts 1st, 2nd place finisher starts 2nd and so on.
Pits open at 4pm ET, front gates open at 5pm and cars on track at 6pm with qualifying and racing immediately following.
Race day tickets will be available at the gate on race day.* No pre-order is necessary.
Winter Dirt Games XII can be watched LIVE on FloRacing.
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WINTER DIRT GAMES XII SPRINT POINTS:
1. 689-Justin Grant
2. 675-Brady Bacon
3. 675-Kevin Thomas Jr.
4. 656-Tanner Thorson
5. 654-Tyler Courtney
6. 639-C.J. Leary
7. 635-Kyle Cummins
8. 627-Buddy Kofoid
9. 623-Chris Windom
10. 615-Jake Swanson
11. 595-Timmy Buckwalter
12. 580-Robert Ballou
13. 558-Chase Stockon
14. 549-Noah Gass
15. 546-Jadon Rogers
16. 534-Dave Darland
17. 507-Paul Nienhiser
18. 502-Kory Schudy
19. 499-Matt Westfall
20. 469-Chase Johnson
21. 469-Briggs Danner
22. 463-Davey Ray
23. 463-Cole Bodine
24. 462-Mario Clouser
25. 454-Stevie Sussex
26. 425-Carson Garrett
27. 418-Sterling Cling
28. 371-Brandon Mattox
29. 359-Brent Beauchamp
30. 356-Dustin Clark
31. 349-Max Adams
32. 345-Chayse Hayhurst
33. 341-Matt Goodnight
34. 325-Kade Morton
35. 323-Riley Kreisel
36. 320-Ryan Thomas
37. 295-Shane Butler
38. 290-(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)ie Gaines
39. 286-Drew Rader
40. 277-Cam Schafer
41. 272-Scott Evans
42. 271-Blake Vermillion
43. 257-Craig Pellegrini
44. 244-Jesse Vermillion
45. 128-Robert Bell
