IRL to award points for road course qualifying

In this ESPN.com article John Oreovicz recalculated the last three IRL championships using several alternate scoring systems and came up with some interesting results.

There are also some interesting Brian Barnhart quotes in the story, especially the one at the end where he says they may add road course qualifying points next year.

"As we move toward a more diversified schedule, the IndyCar Series is the truest test of a driver in the world," he said. "We just finished rule-book meetings, and one of the things we considered is more points for pole at road and street course meetings. It may be appropriate to award points for our Firestone Fast Six knockout format, and we're looking at that as a change for 2009."