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I came up with a system to rank which qualifying night was harder. Red 3 Points, Orange 2 Points, Yellow is 1. With my system Wednesday is the Harder Night

I think Wed. is much tougher!!!

I would also consider Zomer a yellow. If Skip Jackson is yellow, then Zomer has to be! Zomer is as fast as Herrera every Saturday night. Bronson Maeschen typically times really well so he could make a case for a yellow as could Wayne Johnson. On the Wednesday side I would think Allard should be a yellow if Jackson is! Still Wednesday looks to be the tougher night.

Darrah and Dobmeier should be yellow. Wayne Johnson and Zomer should be yellow

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I really think Jason Sides should be in the orange with the way he's been running. I don't see how you could put Dollansky in the orange compared to him by just going off the way they both have performed this year. Also Tyler Walker some people may not like him but he is always a threat at knoxville. I also think you should come up with a different color code for Donny Knoxville Schatz.

I think you very much underestimated a number of Thursday drivers. I agree with the three "reds" you have on both sides...but I strongly disagree with the "oranges" and you left a bunch of the top locals off of the "yellows".

If you are going to list Herrera, TK, Jason Johnson, and Sammy in orange, you have to list Brian Brown, Stevie Smith, Tyler Walker, and Wayne Johnson in orange. They have similar if not better success at Knoxville in the past few years.

I also like Dale Blaney on Thursday. He hasn't run Knoxville much lately but was always fast in here in the past and has been an outlaw killer lately. Hockett is also a wild card on Thursday.

You heavily under-estimate a number of Knoxville locals on both nights such as Maeschen, Zomer, Logan, Jeffrey, Gharst, Droud, Heskin, Garner, Dobmeier. Any of those guys and a couple others are capable of cranking off quick time and having a decent enough run in their Qualifying feature to lock into the A Saturday.

Lastly, besides Darrah, the best of Posseland all run Thursday...plus western PA's Lynch..

Wednesday is top-heavy....but without a doubt Thursday has the much better depth. Top to bottom, the tougher night will be in no doubt Thursday. I think you are all seeing the name Schatz on Wednesday and it is clouding your judgement.

I tried not to be bias but it was near impossible, so some drivers may have not gotten ranked correctly because of that.

I like the system, but I agree that bias may cause a lot of variations below the top 6 drivers which I think you nailed.

You left out Jack Dover also. he will be the surprise of this Nationals.