Longer races or more practice time?

[dylanfan53]

Longer races!!! :o

Ditto.
1.) I feel more productive using up tires in a race than in practice.

2.) I get such crummy starts I need the extra lap or two to catch up.

3.) I can practice all I want while staring out the window at work. :)

[motobenco]

Longer races are more practice

[GregR6]

Longer races are more practice

 ;D
I like his answer

[ecumike]

Longer races!!!

Track days are for practice.
Race days are for racing.

[Thorny]

Maybe a few of the immediate answers of "more race laps" wouldn't be so quick if they realized that setting up suspension can realy only be done during practice. You use that time to dial in your ride, not just going around the track. I see probably better than 80% or riders who never pull in and make a single change. Do you think that if M. "Wah Wah" Maladin just rode around the track at say....R.A. that he would be as quick to ride around everyone the way he has in the past had he not had a ton of practice and set up on that track?
 With more race laps. If you would want a change that would mean pulling in and making a change and loosing a half or mabe a full lap on you competitors.
 Ecu Mike you obviously have allot more disposable income than me, If I can afford to do track days and waste tires and my engines biological clock, I will just run more races!

[Jeff]

Practice makes perfect...  3 rounds would definitely be better than two.  However, I would NOT vote for shortening any races.  The sprint races are short enough the way it is...

[Thingy]

Practice makes perfect...  3 rounds would definitely be better than two.  However, I would NOT vote for shortening any races.  The sprint races are short enough the way it is...

Yeah, I will vote that way too.

[Jeff]

Woo-Hoo!  Thanks Bill, that's 50/50.. game's all tied up...

[bricef4]

Being new to ccs racing, and unable to find the info on the main page, how may laps are the sprint races now?? Unless ccs races are more than 10 laps, I prefer more race laps than practice.

[Jeff]

Being new to ccs racing, and unable to find the info on the main page, how may laps are the sprint races now?? Unless ccs races are more than 10 laps, I prefer more race laps than practice.

It depends...  If you're at Gingerman, late in the season, it's raining and Ed Key wants to go home you just race from the start/finish to turn 1.   :o :-X :-/ :-*

Other than that, they're 8 laps.

[Team_nuclear123]

For sure more race laps...

The series we raced in this weekend only gave 2 practices each day, we got 6 laps in each practice. Then the race on sat was 18 laps.

It caught a lot of people out who were used to cruising around at 80% in practice to get going.

Hell, what was the Daytona AMA... ONE 40 min practice?

[Thorny]

The standard at BlackHog, and GayWay is 8 laps in sprints and the experts get 23 laps in the half hour race. At Road America it is 5 laps in sprints and I can't remeber but I think they get about 17 laps in a half hour race.
 AMA 40min. practice would get you allot of set up time. Just ask my friend Kevin Hanson. If I remember correctly, you get 3 of those 40 minute sessions plus qualifying a session throughout the 3 days for each specific event of racing. I have heard from a ton of experts that they received more track time for one race at an AMA event than they received from five races at the CCS weekends.