[skidlids]

I'm told Patience is a virtue

I've been busy on the phone and internet today trying to close out the last few remaining gray areas

Tyres is done and dusted, draft email written and once I have read through it again and added the last bit of the jigsaw I should be emailing it out tomorrow evening.
Spa-hoping on news from the organisers tomorrow, they now know we have enough riders saying they will do it to fill 1/3 of the grid, so lets hope the other groups can say the same.

As for the Qualifier race. I have read several posts on this, objections are in the minority but here is my view on it taking into account some of the points made in the postings

People that may benefit are those prepared to take the risks and if the people that normally push hard in a timed practice session don't want to take the risks in a qualifying race to get as far up the grid as they could then they may find a few different people in front of them on the grid at two of the meetings.

We can't have 3 point scoring races in one weekend as some people may want to miss that round for one reason or another and elect to drop the two races from their points scoring.

If both races on Saturday were point scoring what would that make Sunday's race, if its non championship then from the comments it looks like people won't take risks. So does that mean they wouldn't take part in it, or would they just go out and not take any risks which as mentioned isn't great racing.
By having the first of the 3 races as a qualifier it does make it part of the championship and therefore adds value to all 3 races. A race not linked to the championship offers little value

In normal quallifying many riders are out there with no idea how well they are doing and no idea where they are going to end up on the grid, sometimes having their best lap ruined by coming across someone going slower just where they didn't need to.

For many a timed practice/qualifying can be a lottery and at the end of it they have no idea where they qualified until they see the timing sheet

It's not a radical idea, other clubs have been doing it for years and even last year BSB adopted a system where the grid for the second race is based on what went on in race 1.
Other forms of international racing even reverse the front couple of rows for the second race based on the finishing order of the first race.

Thankfully NGRRC didn't make a bid (they haven't the space) for the DD series, with a timed practice, one qualifier race a day and one points race a day we would have had to turn down the offer dispite the excellent range of tracks they have to offer as many wouldn't have liked the format