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Originally Posted by ptclaus98
Also, for a series like a Formula Ford or F1000-2000, I would personally go with a weekend that looks like this
90 min practice Wed or Thursday(depending on what day a feature race is held; sets grid for race 1 and q-race 1)
Heat race 1(results set grid for Heat race 2, top four get spots in the feature, same day as the practice)
15 minute warmup
Heat race 2(result sets grid for Heat 3, top four spots not in the feature get in to feature)
Heat race 3(top four not in feature get into feature)
Pre-final(inverted grid, with the the final four feature spots set.)
Feature
Race lengths are timed
Heats 1-3, 25 minutes
Pre-Final, 1 hour
Feature, 1.5 hour long
Three plus hours of racing action in a single weekend. What a young racer needs most. Get a rock hard tire, give them three sets.
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all of which would come with a budget that would cause a very sharp intake of breath!
There is little value in races that long for drivers early in their careers? only f1 and indycars (any more) have single seater races that last that long. 20minute race formats work well, add in the cost of car damage as young fatigued drivers start chucking it off the road
practice on a wednesday/thursday/friday? thats just going to cost too much as it ceases to be something a "lad and his dad" can do because daddys got to work!