Since we have started a couple of great topics!
Here's another 1!

Do you like buybacks? Why?
Do you not like buybacks? Why?

Should there be a limit on when you don't have them Period? Why?

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Hate em but it's part of the game nowadays.

BUYBACKS SUCK RUN THE RACE

I like them. Even better, if it is first or second round. I race for fun. The more times down the track the more fun. With the car at the track $35 for at least one more pass is a small price to pay.

i race at atco i live 115 mi away in md pay 70 dollars in tolls my wife and i both race i have mixed feelings on buybacks i dont think it hurts the weekly points programs if done properly however i dont attend every weekend because atco does not have buybacks its not fun to drive all that distance go red and go home on the otherhand on all the superseries races i do attend i would prefer no buybacks jmo

Do I like them? No

I understand they are necessary for the track to make some additional money. So I think there should never be more then 1 round of buybacks.

When there are buybacks, I believe they should have a separate round OR be placed and the end of staging and race each other until there is only one left from buyback round.

Then they go into lanes with remaining cars.
Thereby limiting the chance of having to run the same car again.

To state the obvious, I don't like b*ybacks. Most everyone I've ever met knows that about me. However, not everybody knows why I don't like b*ybacks. I don't like b*ybacks because I think they are dead wrong.

You lost. You don't make that fact go away because you paid an extra fee to make it go away. You got caught speeding. That fact doesn't change because the cop accepted your $50 to forget about it. Yeah, one is an illegal act and one is not, but sometimes just declaring something legal doesn't make it right to me.

I don't have a problem with a separate "second chance" race. In fact, I might just enter one of those. Take care. Tom Worthington.

OK I LIKE THEM! I LIKE 1ST OR 2ND HECK I DONT EVEN MIND 1ST AND 2ND ROUND BUY BACK BUT I HATE GETTING BEAT BY SOMEONE THAT I BEAT 1ST ROUND. I THINK BUY BACKS SHOULD RUN EACH OTHER TILL ONLY ONE IS LEFT THEN THEY GO IN TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THE REGULAR RACE!

Come on now let's actually answer the Questions.

I personally don't like them but I believe that we need buybacks when the entry's don't cover the purse!

I think there should be a limit to when we don't have them or put It back into the round money!

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I don't have a problem with a separate "second chance" race. In fact, I might just enter one of those. Take care. Tom Worthington

I EVEN LIKE THIS IDEA. 20 OR 30 BUCK ENTRY 1ST AND 2ND ROUND LOSERS

You can't be hit or miss with buybacks. Either you have them every weekend or you don't.

From a business point of view, have them every week. You will have up weeks and down weeks. If you have them every week then the good weeks won' hit the track so hard when they have the bad week.

Buybacks are great, that way I can go down the track 1 more time that day!! ha ha

I would have 1st. or 2nd. rd. but i would make the 2nd. cost twice as much as the 1st.,and see who really wants to race.....WHOMP OUT...

no buy backs
take the 1st & 2nd Rd losers and start a new race this I would do this

I think they should only be when there needed to make the purse and one round only. And if there going to have them every week I think at a set number of cars they shouldnt. Example at tracks with curfews.

They suck and they have ruined the sport.

I LOVE buybacks.... Especially if I am traveling. This is the way I look at it.... I wait ALL week to go racing....Saturday's here, Pack up the trailer, Load up the motor home, attach the trailer, get the wife and kids ready, get gas, drive a hour, or more ..finally get to the track, take ONE time shot (one of our local tracks only have 1 time run) and loose first round!!! So let me get this right, I just waited all week,and went through all that, and money spent($200.00 day at the least) to race my car for maybe a total of 14.8 seconds, and I am done for the week.....HELL NO, GIVE ME BUY BACKS!!!

If a race has buy backs, and they are advertised as such, the racer can choose whether or not to attend the race. Some say it adds rounds to a race, and that is true, but if more cars showed up that would potentially add rounds also. I don't think that buy backs should used at a points type but I know some tracks/markets need them to operate profitably.
I guess what it all comes down to is I don't like buy backs unless I lose first round, then they are a great idea.

I'll tell you my opinion after 1st round.

I honestly don't care either way. If I know they are available, I take enough to cover. If not, I usually get home earlier.

Neither buybacks or double entry make a difference whether I go or not as long as I know rules going in.