New 2008 IRL Qualification Rules

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DanicaFan

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Well, it appears that the IRL will have new qualification rules for this coming year on oval tracks. There are 11 oval races in the schedule this year.

They will go to a 4 lap qualification attempt and the average speed of those laps will determine the starting grid. This is the way the 500 is. They will get 1 attempt.
The previous qualification attemps on ovals(other than Indy500) were that there 1 lap speed determined their starting position. They were allowed a max of 2 laps, if 2 were used, the fastest lap becomes their starting position.

All road and street course qualifications will remain the same. 1 lap speed along with the Firestone Fast 6.

Going to be interesting. I think it may make the qualifications a little more exciting but it will remain to be seen.
 
All in all, it's good prep for Indy. I think you're right, it should be more interesting.
 
Well, it looks I will have to re-emerge this thread. The qualification rules will be changing for road and street courses, starting with St. Petersburg this weekend. The new format is as follows...

Qualifying will begin with a random division of the 26 drivers into groups of 13 for two 20-minute time trials. The top six from each session will advance to a combined grouping that lasts 15 minutes. The fastest six from that will battle in a final 10-minute session that will determine pole position and the first three starting rows. All 26 cars are guaranteed spots.

Under the old rules, they held single-car qualifying, then grouped the top six into a pole shootout
 
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