I always prefer to qualify, even with it's disadvantages, it gives me one more trip, by myself, to see if my setup is close, if done correctly, it only adds a few more minutes to what a good night, could be. In our heyday, we had as high as 50+ cars in the pits, and many a night we might have at least 6 heats, and 2 hooligans, and still a lot went home with no place to race, making a 16 car feature was almost impossible. The only seat time they got was the trip there and back, not much to write home about!

Yes top 5 in the heats get their time back. Others start behind them. Hard to handicap a national show, when guys may have never ran with the group before. Doubt you would see many new faces if they all had to start every race in the back.

I think it is perfect the way it is. In my opinion, USAC has it right and they do a fine job even in these tough times.

It just seems anymore, people want to beat on USAC! If they are so bad, quit watching.

Greg Staab on Turkey night when they qualified and if you didn't qualify in the top so many, You loaded up. "I tried four times to make the race and never turned a feature lap. That's how stacked it was and guys like Shuman won it half a dozen times under that format."