Mike,
The #99, if you are the only driver in a particular car at a national or
tour,
puts you running last. The cars are usually run in numerical sequence, #1 is
first, etc.
If a car has co-drivers in the same heat, then the highest number for the
first driver is #40, and the second driver must use #140.
Some think running last is very good as the course is clean(er) and the
driver
has had a chance to watch everyone else, except those numbered 100-140.
Others prefer a low number so they can get it over with! :-)
So, #99 is a good number.
Numbers have yet to be allocated according to last year's finishing position
at nationals. There might be some regions that do that but it would be a purely
local deal.
--Pat Kelly
Mike Bultemeier wrote:
> Uhhhhh, what does this meen? My new car came with the #99 on it! I hope this
>is
> not the shape of things to come. Please say it ain't so Babe.
>
> Mike B.TLS#1
>
> Robert & Katherine Seamon wrote:
>
> > Upon signing my last post I thought of this question:
> > Should I use the number that I placed in Nationals last year as my car
> > number this year?
> > I've used #3 for like more than a year, but I don't want to step over some
> > unwritten "guideline" that says people who place 28th shouldn't have a low
> > number on their car because the person who really placed 3rd may want the
> > number.
> >
> > Of course this really only applies to Regional and to National events and
> > from past experience the numbering was pretty much first come, first served.
> >
> > I ask because I was watching the Daytona 200 motorcycle race, and I've read
> > that those pros can get real cranky about numbers and stuff. Besides the
> > fact that they award the numbers the next season based on final placement
> > from the season before.
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