2013 Bud Shootout Rules to Change

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This is good news to my ears.....

Budweiser Shootout in 2013 to feature 2012 pole winners, past Shootout winners.

Past Shootout winners will need to have attempted to qualify for at least one race in 2012 to be eligible for next year's race.

This is the way the Budweiser Shootout was set from 1979-2008.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
This is good news to my ears.....

Budweiser Shootout in 2013 to feature 2012 pole winners, past Shootout winners.

Past Shootout winners will need to have attempted to qualify for at least one race in 2012 to be eligible for next year's race.

This is the way the Budweiser Shootout was set from 1979-2008.
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Sounds good. It should be a smaller field. I wonder if it's possible to have more than 43 cars under that format. Highly unlikely though.
 
FenderBumper said:
Sounds good. It should be a smaller field. I wonder if it's possible to have more than 43 cars under that format. Highly unlikely though.
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In 2011, eighteen different drivers qualified on the pole. That's just to give you an idea of what the field may be.

2011 Pole winners

1 Greg Biffle 3
2 Kurt Busch 3
3 Carl Edwards 3
4 Matt Kenseth 3
5 Ryan Newman 3
6 David Ragan 2
7 Juan Pablo Montoya 2
8 Mark Martin 2
9 Joey Logano 2
10 Kasey Kahne 2
11 Tony Stewart 1
12 David Reutimann 1
13 Jamie McMurray 1
14 Brad Keselowski 1
15 Jeff Gordon 1
16 Dale Earnhardt, Jr. 1
17 Kyle Busch 1
18 Martin Truex, Jr. 1
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
This is good news to my ears.....

Budweiser Shootout in 2013 to feature 2012 pole winners, past Shootout winners.

Past Shootout winners will need to have attempted to qualify for at least one race in 2012 to be eligible for next year's race.

This is the way the Budweiser Shootout was set from 1979-2008.
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FenderBumper said:
Sounds good. It should be a smaller field. I wonder if it's possible to have more than 43 cars under that format. Highly unlikely though.
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You could conceivably have 36 different pole winners plus past Shootout winners. Could be a large field.
 
2011 - 18 pole winners
2010 - 18 pole winners
2009 - 11 pole winners
2008 - 15 pole winners
2007 - 18 pole winners
 
36 different pole winners...now that would be a bold prediction.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I'm not following you. What do you mean?

If I am understanding you only the ones that attempt to qualify during 2012.
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I'm not being serious here. With all the old timers coming out to race, what if they all jumped in a car to qualify for start and parks and be eligable for the shootout.
 
The field will probably be about the same as this year, considering the the eligble past winners and then figuring in the average amount of pole winners in a season.
 
FenderBumper said:
Arranging day? Are you British or something? ;)
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In my mind it's nothing more than that anymore. Qualifying to me means that you are making an attempt to make the show. The top 35 rule guarantees that for the majority of the field. Now it's nothing more than arranging the cars in a particular order.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
In my mind it's nothing more than that anymore. Qualifying to me means that you are making an attempt to make the show. The top 35 rule guarantees that for the majority of the field. Now it's nothing more than arranging the cars in a particular order.
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Ah, well put. I'm glad to hear that you aren't British after all. :D
 
Is it said anywhere that the drivers that qualify under this rule will be the only ones in the Shootout?Or is this in addition to the past rules?After all the cars that got tore up this year I'm not to sure they looking to make the field smaller for next year.
 
mike honcho said:
Is it said anywhere that the drivers that qualify under this rule will be the only ones in the Shootout?Or is this in addition to the past rules?After all the cars that got tore up this year I'm not to sure they looking to make the field smaller for next year.
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It's just like the first post in this thread says..... 2012 pole winners and past Shootout champions that attempt to qualify during the 2012 season. Past rules are gone. It's going old school!
 
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