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2023 Gold Cup Format

Multiple cars battle at Silver Dollar Speedway
Emphasis remains on points and inverts for 69th Gold Cup Race of Champions

Preliminary Nights

  • Qualify in one group. (1 car, 2 laps)
    • Qualifying points awarded. 100 for quick time down by 1. 2nd-99, 3rd-98, etc.
  • 4 Heats lined up with an invert of 6
    • Top 5 transfer to feature
    • Points for heat win start at 100, down by 2. 2nd-98, 3rd-96, etc.
  • LCS lined up by accumulative qualifying and heat points.
    • The 2 fastest cars that didn’t transfer line up on the front row
    • Top 4 transfer to the feature and tag the tail of feature
  • Feature lineup has fastest 8 cars that transfer line up inverted in the first four rows of the feature
    • Balance of feature lined up by accumulative qualifying and heat points total from top 5 finishers in heats minus fastest 8
    • Feature finish points add to total for Saturday lineups
    • 1st is 200, down by 3
    • LCS points start at 128 for 5th and go down by 3. 6th-125, 7th-122, etc.

Saturday Night

  • Top 2 from each prelim night in points locked into dash
  • Next 40 in points line up 4 heats by points
    • Top 4 in heats to Feature
    • Winner to dash
  • 45th and above in points line up in NQ race(s).
    • Top 8 if one NQ, Top 4 if two NQ, transfer to back of heat races.
    • 1st to heat 1, 2nd to heat 2, etc. for 2 NQ’s. 5th to heat1, 6th to heat 2 etc. if one NQ
  • D-Main is lined up by heat finishing positions 11, 12, and cars that didn’t transfer from NQ races
    • Top 2 transfer and tag tail of C-main
  • C-main is lined up by finishing positions 8, 9, and 10 from heats.
    • Top 4 transfer to back of LCS
  • LCS is lined up by heat finishing positions 5, 6, and 7.
    • 2 highest points totals that don’t transfer start on the front row of the LCS
    • Top 4 transfer and tag tail of feature
  • Dash is lined up with top 4 in points drawing for positions 1-4 and heat winners drawing for positions 5-8
  • Feature behind dash cars is lined up by heat finishing positions 2, 3, and 4
    • 2nd heat one starts 9th, 2nd heat two starts 10th, etc.

*Preliminary night ties will be broken by Qualifying times. Any ties heading into Saturday’s finale will be broken by preliminary Feature finish

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