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Andy,
The way I would do it is require pre-registration. You do it just like a big enduro, you close the registration when you reach your limit. If it's 38 cars per run group at LRP, you close the registration when you get 38 entries for that run group. This is the 21st century, people should be able to check the status of a run group before they leave for the track. If you haven't pre-registered, and you don't check how well subscribed your run group is, and you go to the track anyway, there's no one to blame but yourself if you don't get a slot.
What is written in the supps for the LRP race is not equitable. Let's Racer X who runs in Group A, happens to be at the end of the grid, 115% slower than the class pole sitter. Now, you've got Racer Y who runs in Group B, which happens to be a poorly subscribed group. Racer Y runs at 120% of the class pole sitter. Racer X has to run a consi, but Racer Y gets to run the main.
And the way I read those supps, you don't get to run the consi and the main both. If you don't make the main, you don't make the main, regardless of where you finish in the consi.
The short track folks have all these qualifiers and consis because they KNOW well in advance that they will be over subscribed.
Taking somebody's money and telling them they can't race is just wrong. Your car breaks, that's one thing, and we all accept that, but if they're going to set it up like this, they should either cut the registration at the group limit, or they should give partial refunds to those that don't qualify.
Either that, or run restricted Regionals and only invite certain classes. That doesn't address the problem w/ what happens when more than 38 cars in a single class show up, but see my earlier comments about pre-registration. [/b]
But they ARE getting a race. It just doesn't count for championship points. The crux of that is that they weren't getting them anyway. The way the points are structured up here, anything outside of 9th place doesn't get points. Just your 'track' points and your 'start' points. The reason for this rule is to make sure the 'winner' of the consi race does't get 'first place' points when they weren't the best car that day in class. I actually think on some level that consi race would be more fun for some. Racing agaist cars of similar speed instead of getting lapped may be more exiting.