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Originally Posted by DoughtyUK.net
there is the flip side, if you dominate your heat and everyone knows your car you have got a free run, no pressure, a few chicanes to get around but thats all fine.
you could find yourself in a heat with someone matching your pace and spending most of the heat tripping over each other racing to a fast time you could end up going slower
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Chris,
Much as this may sound true, you have to take into account the ability of the drivers in your heat to actually let you pass. Last week end, I was put in bottom heat. Now I haven't raced buggies in some time and not in this country anyway, so that wasn't much of a surprise.
In each run I found myself with a pile of cars in front of me. They did a good job at getting out of the way when there wasn't another car with them, but there was always a lap or two where they'd tangle into each other just in front of me. Some times I had to stop in the middle of the track, nowhere to go
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Had this not happened, I would have not qualified 22nd but somewhere in the B. You may loose a couple of seconds qualifying with a guy that's near your pace, but nowhere near as much as in bottom heat.