[Darren Boyle]

The reason I understand why it is like that is since (in this case) when they finished qualifying on the thursday, the track still had a lot of running to be done on it with all the lower finals on the friday and then the continuation on the saturday with quarters, semis and then of course the main. In that time, with differing conditions and the ever changing weather the track can (and did) change massively and any driver who goes straight into the A main is actually seen to be at a "dis-advantage" by not running on it and getting used to those "new" conditions, where as a driver who has bumped up from the semi's will have run for the first time in a longer race and on the newer conditions and will be more fine tuned to them.....

However, I am sure if anyone offered to Elliott right now that would he have preffered to have gone straight in he would snap their hand off!!

It does not seem right that the "fastest" guy all week, was not in there, but that is the nature of beast so to speak and the unfortunate pot luck in this type of racing sometimes.....