WOO points confusion

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

The track mustve gotten better because Erb jr. said every driver around him had softer tire on.

They reworked it. And it helped for sure.

[NormP]

A couple things I noticed other than the horrible time management practices of WoO:


For the first couple of nights, Clanton didn't run quite as strong as he has in recent years, although he had a fourth and a second earlier in the week, then he finally lead the race on Friday. While he was leading, the officials consider ending the race on lap 23, which he obviously was in favor of. So he won a 23 lap race.

Last night he ran an 18-something qualifying lap, and was going to start 10th in his heat, but the officials decided that one was his "warmup lap" and let him count a much faster lap as his qualifying lap.

Then Clanton runs 13th in the race, 8 positions behind Madden; this was supposedly going to be a non-points race and suddenly everyone gets the same 40 points no matter how they finished.

Just an observation. Draw your own conclusions.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

A couple things I noticed other than the horrible time management practices of WoO:


For the first couple of nights, Clanton didn't run quite as strong as he has in recent years, although he had a fourth and a second earlier in the week, then he finally lead the race on Friday. While he was leading, the officials consider ending the race on lap 23, which he obviously was in favor of. So he won a 23 lap race.

Last night he ran an 18-something qualifying lap, and was going to start 10th in his heat, but the officials decided that one was his "warmup lap" and let him count a much faster lap as his qualifying lap.

Then Clanton runs 13th in the race, 8 positions behind Madden; this was supposedly going to be a non-points race and suddenly everyone gets the same 40 points no matter how they finished.

Just an observation. Draw your own conclusions.

What's the difference between non points and all get same points?

[Bubstr]

Certain Drivers, Crew Chiefs or Media can get into their head. It needs this, it needs that or leave it alone. It seems when they give in to this, they make inconsistent decisions. Those decisions show up like these at Volutia. They know better, but still it happens.

To be a good Official, you must be Knowledgeable, Fair and unbiased, much like a good umpire at a baseball game. When you rely on someone else for any of these, you lost.

Was it fair to run 40 and 23 laps when 50 was advertised. A lot of things change when preparing to race those three different races. Seems the 23 lap race should have been the one, not counted. It didn't meet the half way criteria. It was a junk surface and impossible to race due to heavy dew and no fault of the racers.

Seems they made a mistake Friday and went overboard Saturday and pulled points and shortened the race and doubled up on mistakes.

[HoosierDirtFan]

I wish Fairbury would dump WOO for the PDC and go to Lucas.

They can't other wise UMP / World Racing Group would have a fit with them like they did Fayette County Speedway (IL) late last year and earlier this year.

[dirtdobber45]

A couple things I noticed other than the horrible time management practices of WoO:For the first couple of nights, Clanton didn't run quite as strong as he has in recent years, although he had a fourth and a second earlier in the week, then he finally lead the race on Friday. While he was leading, the officials consider ending the race on lap 23, which he obviously was in favor of. So he won a 23 lap race.Last night he ran an 18-something qualifying lap, and was going to start 10th in his heat, but the officials decided that one was his "warmup lap" and let him count a much faster lap as his qualifying lap.Then Clanton runs 13th in the race, 8 positions behind Madden; this was supposedly going to be a non-points race and suddenly everyone gets the same 40 points no matter how they finished.Just an observation. Draw your own conclusions.

Im thinking about the same thing BUT not Clanton... just with Madden having the points lead. Time will tell

[#FALSuperman]

They can't other wise UMP / World Racing Group would have a fit with them like they did Fayette County Speedway (IL) late last year and earlier this year.

Yes, sadly UMP will threaten to take away Summer Nationals tour, and any other good paying race at FALS they sanction. Only the "grandfathered in" tracks are exempt from the UMP dictatorship.

[pink floyd]

incompetency

[Shiny Side Up 18]

I recall Tony Izzo Jr. on Facebook said that he and Matt Curl had agreed to bring one of LaSalle's Lucas races to Fairbury, but UMP threw a fit and it never happened.

[#FALSuperman]

I recall Tony Izzo Jr. on Facebook said that he and Matt Curl had agreed to bring one of LaSalle's Lucas races to Fairbury, but UMP threw a fit and it never happened.

Correct...they are pretty good at bullying any UMP tracks looking at possibly adding Lucas.

[dirtdobber45]

Sounds like we need a new sanction series.

[NormP]

What's the difference between non points and all get same points?

There is no difference. It's just 2 more examples of the organization seemingly making it up as they go.

[Snake X3]

WoO reeks like NASCAR. They're turning into the WWE of DLM racing.

[Highside Hustler25]

I wish Fairbury would dump WOO for the PDC and go to Lucas.

I wish FALS would go with neither. It was just fine in my book before it was tour sanctioned.

[ptown]

I wish FALS would go with neither. It was just fine in my book before it was tour sanctioned.

I think they needed to do something, the PDC was getting stale plus the car counts were going down at 10k to win.