SCHEDULE / PRACTICE NOTES
Pit Setup Starts Mon Night and Lasts all Week:
'Manufactures Row', 'The Florida Cracker Room', and
'The Outer Deck' reserved pitting can start to set up Mon evening. Likely 6pm this year because of delayed setup.
        
Check-In Starts Mon Night and Lasts all Week:
Check-in will begin Monday evening at 6pm. You can also check-in any day the rest of the week. Check-in times will be posted at race (tentatively 7am-10pm). You will be able to purchase spec tires, pick up free stuff, get raffle tickets/50-50 tickets, buy shirts/hats, get flyers, etc. Come see Julie and Lori and the girls! Check-in is by the conference center outside glass doors (near the restrooms outside the main track area).
        
Daily Practice Details For Road and Oval:
   Tuesday:  There will be open practices, and timed controlled class practice sessions. 
   Wednesday:  There will be open practices, and timed controlled class practice sessions.
   Thursday-Sunday:  There will be open practice before the heats start each day and before the mains. This helps groove the track for racing. We will have some open practice after oval qualifying for oval cars Thu & Fri night. No oval practice after B-mains. Racetrack closes at night.
THERE WILL BE PRACTICE THURSDAY FOR THOSE ARRIVING LATE. YOU CAN ALSO MISS ANY OF YOUR 4 QUALIFIERS IF ARRIVING LATE. NO NEED TO BE HERE ALL WEEK TO PARTICIPATE.
      
General Practice Notes:
You must practice with the rules of your class (i.e. 21.5 in 21.5 classes) and you must be registered in that class to practice. Open and controlled practices will have racers waiting in line. You can not cut in front of the line. Exact practice schedules will be at the hotel lobby check-in counter and track registration area. These are based on car class totals. More cars get more practice.
   Open Practice:  This is for when time is limited and allows racers a chance to get on the track and turn laps. These may be short 1-2 minute runs with 10 cars at a time. You can make a small change and run a few laps to see how your car handles. Many drivers can run in these time-frames. All classes of cars may be grouped together to go out during these times. We may have cars grouped together (by speed/type) for some of the open practices, rather than be on the track all at once.
   Timed Controlled Class Practices:  This is where we schedule times for each individual class to practice in. Touring 25.5 practices with Touring 25.5, etc. Controlled practice is set with the same class order as the racing order, to simulate similar track conditions and schedules. Times are based on number of entries per class. Practice lengths may vary depending on the amount of cars in line, so that everyone has a chance.
  
Qualifying Notes:
We race stagger/Ifmar starts for both oval & road heats. Each driver will be on their own race clock. Racers must turn marshal each round. Slow cars must yield to faster cars in qualifying. We take your best single qualifier to set the mains (and to set the resorts). There are four qualifiers and one main event. The top 9 cars are locked into the A-Main (because the bump-up driver from the B-Main takes the 10th spot in the A-Main). Note some classes may have exceptions with less or more cars locked in. We can run 11/12 depending on class counts/mains/etc. We may have oval rolling starts.
   Resorts:  We will have a resort after each round (3 resorts total). A resort is a new heat line-up based on your presvious best qualifying result. Faster cars end up qualifying together.
    
Snowbird 'Fast Pass' Thursday Practice:
If you can not make practice Tue or Wed because you are arriving late, we will work on allowing you to jump ahead of the line for practice on Thu. We did this the last couple years and it worked well. You must let us know before the race if you want to be included in this.