[Alan]

Some more of my thoughts chaps....

With regard to Charlies thoughts on 4 qual. 2 finals, you said,
"Turning to Alan's proposal for two finals following four qualifying heats with 5 rounds to count from 8 for the championship; what if a driver breaks 3 times out of 4 in qualifying and ends up in the Z Final, he would then have to suffer 2 Z Final scores towards the championship - cant see that being popular with competitors."

If that happens with 4 qualifying and 2 finals then 25% of there regional score will be up the swanny.
If you have 4 qual. and 1 final, and the above happens then also, 25% of your score is also up the creek making a bad day at any regional irrelevant, no matter which system is used.

With the current method of scoring, then you have to have 75% of the scores count towards the championship. With my proposal of 5 scores from 8 then you have 62.5% of your scores going towards the championship so if you did have a really bad day as Charlie describes then it won't affect your overall score as much as 3 from 4.

Also it is very easy to sort out the winner on the day with 2 finals as it has been happening for years in other tournaments.

I think that whatever system we use we can easily get a fair result, but I feel it is important to give everybody a fair crack on the day. It is almost irrelevant what system is used. It will be the same for everybody and so we will all be competing in 'the same ring' so to speak.

I do feel that 3 legged A finals could be a problem with,
1) Time for the A finalists to charge up etc.
2) Time for the A finalists to do any repairs etc.
3) Problems with covering marshall posts 3 times for the A finalists
This is mainly due to the fact that we don't get 120 drivers at regionals, but more like 60 ish, and some of those are doing open classes.

Charlie's timetable looks workable I'll agree, but I'm not sure if I would want to be in the A final with around 10 - 15 minutes to attend to my car 3 times.

I think I favour a system that gives all drivers more track time, either 3 Qual. 3 Finals for 4 Qual. 2 Finals.

Whatever the outcome I'm sure we can make next year much more interesting for all.

Oh, and short course trucks, If enough turn up on the day I don't see why they cannot run. I don't see any reason why they cannot have a championship of their own over the season. The more the merrier for me!

Thanks for reading my thoughts!

Alan