Inverting the Field

[Roman Nodonyet]

At the beginning of Saturday's practice Mike Joy said NASCAR would invert the qualifying order as a quick April Fool's Gag. This got me thinking however, what if the field was inverted? This would be kind of like some local Saturday night dirt track races. Would there be rules in place to prevent top teams from putting together bad qualifying laps to be at the front of the field? Just a thought, what do you all think?

It was done at a number of All-Star Races in the 2000's. I recall at one time it was even picked by the fans (who always picked the max number of inverted cars because who wouldn't?), before they moved to a random draw later on (to stop it from being predictable).

 

[Roman Nodonyet]

"Inversion is the path to the Dark Side.

Inversion leads to sandbagging.
Sandbagging leads to accidents.
Accidents lead to anger...

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You missed one. Accidents lead to fear. FEAR leads to anger...

 

[Wingnutcnc]

Not only invert but also make the drivers switch cars halfway through each segment.

 

[Roman Nodonyet]

Regressive banking

In motocross/supercross at least, that's called off-camber corners. Those things are fun...on dirt bikes...

 

[Roman Nodonyet]

Why don't the fans just vote on the starting order, then vote again and the end of each segment. That way if a driver does something to tick them off, think Blaney wrecking Earnhardt, the fans can send them to the rear.

Can anyone tell me what username Brian uses when he read this board?

You know it was the Earnhardt w/ two 3's instead of two 8's in his car number, right?...