St George handicap replacement

[Marshy]

As a n00b I like the idea of the 4 grades...

There just aren't enough people for this in almost all classes and race meets. If you are trying to give almost everyone a trophy, this works perfectly! But I'd rather make trophies a little harder to get than just turning up Remember that this is 'per grade, per class', and if you've ever been to a trophy presentation, particularly at a St George meet with lots of different classes, it is just a sea of trophies. 1st, 2nd, 3rd in each grade, in each class. That's a shit-load of trophies! In reality St George and most other race meets already self-correct into 3 grades, as they simply combine A and B into the same grade.

And you'd have to have more than 5 laps on a bracket before you get bumped. Otherwise you get one lucky lap following a faster rider during qually and next thing you know you've changed grades.

Agreed. I forgot to put this in my first post.