They drew out the brackets before anyone raced, randomly. So depending on if you where, top or bottom, determined which lane you started in.... dumb luck and track variation.Stan Pope wrote:Regarding role of officials in the proceedings: Depends on how they decided who should occupy which lanes in the first of the set of heats. If the "loader/starter decided which car to put where", then in those cases in which the cars are more equal than the lanes, the starter/loader is deciding which will win the matchup! That is not a proper role!
I did like seeing them race twice though b/c it only made me question a couple of the heats. Seeing a car win once in each lane facing the same opponent made me feel a little better about the outcome of the heat.