Hello all,

As I was racing my BMW CSL tonight, I was regretting that is not competetive in any of our race classes; it’s a 4.3 or 4.4 second car.  I thought about some kind of bracket racing like they do in drag racing, where you race based on set times and if you go faster than that time, you “break out”.  I envision this to be informal, one-off racing on Thursdays, non-race Saturdays, or just any time we feel like it.  We would have a race with a bracket time of 4.3 or 4.0 or whatever time the people there that night felt like.  If you go faster than the set time during a heat you would have 1 lap subtracted from your total for that heat.  I would suggest that rather than qualifying like they do in drag racing, that you would just pick the bracket time you wanted for a particular car.  For a 4.3 bracket you might have a car that would never break 4.3, or you might have a car that could occasionally run a 4.27 but that you could run 4.3s comfortably all day long.  The racing would naturally be close and the fastest lap race sound would not necessarily be what you would want to hear.  This would be a great way to stage “run what you brung” races and get to race cars that we normally do not race. 

Russell