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I’m giving you a hypothetical situation.

Let’s say the race is down to three cars and obviously one car has a bye into the final.

The car who has the bye cannot make the call.

This leaves the two cars that were going to race in the semifinals.

Now what happens?

And just to throw a monkey wrench in the works, there is winner, runner-up and semifinals payouts.

Don’t forget the track points program. Who gets what points?

Okay, go!!


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I’m giving you a hypothetical situation.

Let’s say the race is down to three cars and obviously one car has a bye into the final.

The car who has the bye cannot make the call.

This leaves the two cars that were going to race in the semifinals.

Now what happens?

And just to throw a monkey wrench in the works, there is winner, runner-up and semifinals payouts.

Don’t forget the track points program. Who gets what points?

Okay, go!!


The car that cannot make the call gets the semi final money and any points that come with it. The other two cars run a final round, if they want to split the first and second place money, they can do that before leaving the staging lanes. Points are given to them based on the results of that final round. Take care. Tom Worthington


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I agree with Tom on this. He said exactly what I was thinking.
 
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Seems like it's easy to give someone else's money away but technically if you can't make the round,...you didn't run the round and would get paid for the 1/4 final and the two semis would get the choice of a single run or the track can do this manually and then run a final.


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At my track and in my mind if you don't make the call you get points and money if there is any coming based on the last round you tripped the beams. The 2 cars that make the call are the final and points/money is given accordingly.



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Originally posted by Cashflow:
I’m giving you a hypothetical situation.

Let’s say the race is down to three cars and obviously one car has a bye into the final.

The car who has the bye cannot make the call.

This leaves the two cars that were going to race in the semifinals.

Now what happens?

And just to throw a monkey wrench in the works, there is winner, runner-up and semifinals payouts.

Don’t forget the track points program. Who gets what points?

Okay, go!!


The car that cannot make the call gets the semi final money and any points that come with it. The other two cars run a final round, if they want to split the first and second place money, they can do that before leaving the staging lanes. Points are given to them based on the results of that final round. Take care. Tom Worthington


I think it is a bad deal but as I understand the rules you need to stage the car under its own power and take the tree to get the round. So the guy who could not make the call is just out and will get paid for last round he won.


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At my track and in my mind if you don't make the call you get points and money if there is any coming based on the last round you tripped the beams. The 2 cars that make the call are the final and points/money is given accordingly.


Same with my track. You get 10 points to show up and an additional 10 with each round won. You don’t have to stage in the next round to get the points.

In this situation with the bye car not making the call I think the winner/RU might not get the full amount of points because the semi and the final are the same race.
 
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Based on the track, the race director has the final word.
Years ago I was at a bracket race in Phoenix by a lake. I was a non points gambler during and in between fuel car testing n January.
Well, I made it to the final and as we were pulling out to the track the staging guy say's "you know this is winner take all, right?" I jokingly said "I'd like to see that guy get a little something for making the final."
I won and when I went to get paid they had paid everyone to the quarters in a gambler!
I think it was because I was from out of town.
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I would say technically it's always a wait and see buy. If he doesn't show, it's the final. He gets semi money as he won the round before putting him there. Finals money is up to the guys that made the call.


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I doubt if many tracks would do this,but what if the two cars race in the semi finals and the winner gets a bye in the final?

Then,he actually has to stage the car on his bye run in the final,but it won't start or is broken.

Now would there be no winner declared and the track keeps the winner money?
 
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I would say technically it's always a wait and see buy. If he doesn't show, it's the final. He gets semi money as he won the round before putting him there. Finals money is up to the guys that made the call.


Unless there is a ladder, this is exactly correct. There is not a bye run, because only two cars showed up to staging lanes.


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The broke car with the bye in the semis gets quarter final money and points. (didn't stage for semis)

Other semi pair races, Winner get bye in final, loser get semis money and Points. No runner up money or points paid out.

Thats the way I believe NHRA would handle it.


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Depends on the track and track rules.Some tracks use to let you sit out a bye run,meaning you didn't have to stage the car.Have seen that situation before.....
 
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The broke car with the bye in the semis gets quarter final money and points. (didn't stage for semis)

Other semi pair races, Winner get bye in final, loser get semis money and Points. No runner up money or points paid out.

Thats the way I believe NHRA would handle it.


This just happened in Super Gas at the final D7 event in Vegas last year.

https://www.dragracecentral.co...er=Year2023#indextop

The broken car received full points as if he had shown up and lost in a 6th round semifinal. The other two cars raced that round as the final, but were given points as if they had both run the semifinal round and won it (This is the round in the link. Nobody actually staged for this round.)

It can really depend on exact track wording, if they have it. For example, do they pay "second round winners" or do they pay "third round losers"? I've had that exact scenario bite me when the car broke after winning Round 2. I went to get my money in the tower, and ended up leaving empty-handed but telling them that next time I'd leak trans fluid all over the starting line but collect the money.

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Agree with Mark/Lenny.
If the car is broke, doesn’t show up and cannot stage under its own power then yes, no points or money.
That should be the standard.

If in the essence of a curfew/ weather etc the director can ask you to not stage and report to the next round.


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Agree with Mark/Lenny.
If the car is broke, doesn’t show up and cannot stage under its own power then yes, no points or money.
That should be the standard.

If in the essence of a curfew/ weather etc the director can ask you to not stage and report to the next round.


Maybe I wasn’t clear, but you are stating the opposite of my opinion.

I believe the money/points are earned based on the rounds that were won.

The NHRA scenario I described above was handled correctly, IMO. But if there is no ladder, it really isn’t as clear.


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Broke racer gets paid runner up money, but scores no point for the round.
The winner of the semi-final pairing has a bye in the final, runner up gets paid semi-final money and no point for the round loss.

(The bye car was guaranteed the runner up at that point, the other was only guaranteed semi-finalist.)

**** If the local rule is that you have to stage, even on a bye.****

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Yeah I screwed that up!


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i think goob is right. what about the money, if a split has already been made?
 
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When I replied earlier, I was at work and I guess I didn’t read closely enough. The bye car being the one not making the call does complicate it a bit.

Now I’m thinking there would be two semifinal’s and a winner. No runner up. That’s with a ladder.

Without a ladder, the car not making the call is the semifinalist, the other two are winner and runner-up. If the purse structure is based on round money, the semi and runner-up would get the same money as they won the same number of rounds.

Great thought exercise; anyone running a race should have a plan in place for this!


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