Qualifying for next year in Cup idea?

Question

Qualifying idea, I know that everyone’s got an idea about how qualifying should be changed in Sprint Cup (yea that will take a while to get use to)

After the first four races, before that the previous years standings count

Change the top 35 owners to the top 20 in driver points, and top 10 in owner points (Gives the elite teams a reward for past results, the owner point part to protect teams with new drivers on established teams in the first four races and elite drivers on new teams)

Race winners from the current year are in.
(Rewards winning, the extra 10 points don’t mean anything if you don have a chance of winning championship)

Past Champions Provisional up to five times per year, only available if you have previously qualified on speed an equal amount of times that the Provisional is used. (For the Daytona 500 the past Champions Provisional is available to the fastest past champion in qualifying not the duel races).

Every one else races in.


Qualifying Day:

All the “go or go home teams” qualify first, if it rains before the locked in teams put the first cat on the track. They go with the top 43 in owner points, if not the teams are in based on the all previous rules with the best qualifiers starting first thought 43rd .

Answer 1

I actually like your idea alot... very thought out... For those of you who say fastest 43 cars should race every week, thats a nice wish, but will never happen... First time a big shot like Gordon, Dale Jr, Stewart, etc, spins out in qualifying and misses the race your going to have a TON of pissed off fans... You have to have some way to make sure your "money makers" get into the races!

I also like the part about race winners getting in... Really gives those guys that are way back in the standings a reason to take some chances and try anything to get a win as opposed to them just racing for points to stay or get in the top 35...

One thing I would add is when the chase starts, only the top 12 are locked in, everyone else qualifies... Just to spice things up at the end of the season!

Answer 2

No one should have an edge period. The way it was before this idiotic top 35 thing came about was fine. The provisional were good reward for past accomplishments but that is where it should stop. I think if a driver wins a race for the current year all that means is he won a race that currant year.Hip hip hurray now go qualify. I'll let you be an automatic at the end of the field next year if you win the championship this year.
You want to do something different and I'm sure it would go over with the new fan and the old is lets qualify and then have some heat races.
They do it once a year and they are some of the best races all year. The 125's or they might be 150's now they have made so many ridiculous changes in NASCAR it's hard to keep up with the insane jerk running that show now.
Anyway I don't know what will be done. I just don't see how they can sleep at night the way they have it screwed up right now.

Answer 3

What does anyone think about franchising? 43 teams for 43 spots each week. Sponsors spend a lot of money to put their name on a car to not get into the race if you are not in the top 35 in points. If an owner buys one of the 43 franchise spots, they can go to their sponsor and guarantee they will be in each race of the entire season. Their would still be drama as to what position you get, etc. But, really, how much drama is there in qualifying anyway? The only drama is when someone like Boris Said gets screwed out of a position because of an archaic rule.

Answer 4

In theory you have a pretty good looking plan.
I like the one on the radio today.
Only 1st and 2 nd in points locked in.Past Champion provisional,if he attempts to make a quailifing run and if he uses a provision then if he quailifies for 5 events on speed then he gets 1 provisional spot back.
The rest of the 40 positions are on speed.
But personally the fastest 43 race.

Answer 5

At this point, I'm ready to try any new system that is an improvement over the current system.
Not sure if I comprehend it completely, but the parts I get are the ones I like, such as the fastest past champion, instead of the current way(most recent past champion).
As much as I would like it to be the 43 fastest cars racing, those big sponsors would never accept it, so a system like yours is acceptable to me.

Answer 6

They need to let the top 35 qualify for the race for starting positions.

Then let the Non top 35 have a short race for the 7 remaining positions.

Answer 7

I think that Nascar should get rid of the top-35 in points deal, even though NASCAR started useing the top-35 two years ago it is already out of date. They should make it the top-40 in points or something, I was watching NASCAR Now on ESPN on Monday, and Boris Said was talking about the top-35 in owner points, and he said that there are way to many major sponsors that are not in the top-35 in owners points that are missing races, take NAPA for example,
Micheal Waltrip has missed 17% of the races won, or 3 out 18 races, and his sponsor NAPA is a major sponsor, and NAPA and Waltrip have missed a lot of races.

Answer 8

Until 10 seconds ago, I'd have said let everybody race in. I like Rowdy's solution. That should be the reward for excellence. The present system is utter crap. I am sick to death of hearing how all these drivers suck because they can't qualify. The truth is you get some guys with good times who won't get in and instead some chump gets in because of owner points.
In the immortal words of Bill The Cat: Oop! Ack! Pffft!

Answer 9

A pretty good idea you put out.

I would still keep a certain threshold on points for automatically being in the field. Top 35 is just too large. Make it Top 20 or so, or at least make it a little more of a select few, instead of a large group.

Answer 10

Let everyone get in on speed except the 12 cars in the Chase from the previous year. That would reward the best of the best and leave 31 spots up for grabs.