Forum: HoseHeads Sprint Car General Forum (go)
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From the race team's perspective:
-It allows a driver to earn some points in a race he didn't earn his way into. But, since his main competitors get the same amount of provisionals, it doesn't really give anyone an advantage
-It allows a driver who didn't earn his way into the feature a chance to go spend a lot more money than he will earn in the race.
-When's the last time anyone used a provisional and finished up front?
-Maybe some racers don't need provisionals? In that case, the guys who do get some extra points they didn't really earn.
-They allow a driver having a bad night to get his car in front of the paying fans and perhaps on TV for his sponsors.

From the fans' perspective:
-If I'm a big fan of Homer Skidmore in the #99 iq and he doesn't make the feature, is that going to stop me from buying a T-shirt? (Go Homer!)
-If Homer Skidmore is having an off night, am I really going to enjoy watching the 99iq getting lapped? Or getting caught up in someboay else's accident that he would have missed out on if he didn't start the feature?

Rather than give drivers a certain number of provisionals for a race they didn't earn their way into, why not give them a mulligan- a certain number of points or some extra show-up money? Since all the platinum drivers would be getting the same, it wouldn't really matter in the end.

What do you think?

From a fans point of view, example Donny Schatz's home tracks, West Fargo and River Cities. Locals attend to see their neighbour but the neighbour gets caught up in a wreck that isn't his fault after qualifying 1st and leading his heat, not having an off day to be lapped by fillers. Fans plan their weekend to see their Star compete but now he won't be in the main. They all go home frustrated and next year they go to their 3rd cousin's birthday party.

They have a purpose.