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Originally Posted by 1050goat
Don't take me wrong...I'll be there. I've beaten box guys with my footbrake before. I've just personally never seen this format before and was kinda shocked everyone was getting thrown together. Are you a little afraid it might hurt attendance?
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No Don't think it would hurt one bit. I've seen this format many of times. Some big money races in southern KY are run in this style of format.
Last time in 2009, there was 12 box cars, all the rest were no-box and Street car plus it was a beautiful day with an excellent overall car count. So basically the quick 8/16 race will more than likely end up being the box race if you want to look at it that way, just running it under a ladder format for the first round. All the no box cars will run together and same with all box cars. Depending on car count and how many of the box cars make it to the quick race decides when and where the 2 brackets get merged.
We went to the first 3 years of PY's Pontiacs in the Park when that was started. Same issue there. There was around 75 cars total for that event pretty much all those years we went. The first year I was the 14th car running box class and the counts was similar the next 2 years we went. The Bowling Green POCI Race in 2011 was pretty much the same way if not even fewer cars in box. Last years Pontiacs in the Grove race that was tied into PY open House again had around 100 cars total for the brackets and the counts in each were similar to everything else. These are some examples of events we attended and saw first hand. I'm sure you'd find similar results at other Pontiac only events in other parts of the nation.
This race is obviously in conjunction with the Co-vention. We're trying to make this race event not only appealing to your weekly racer but also to the casual racer and everyone at the convention who we want to come out and watch some great racing and maybe even throw there hand in on competing.
I've seen more no box cars win these style of races than box cars over the years!
