Using card system to determine lanes and pairings

[davea2]

Can someone out there give me a brief explanation of how this system works.
Thanks - Dave

[Don @ Maritime Drag Racing]

If you have two staging lanes - one is for red cards, the other for black. Let's say left is black and right is red - The staging lane person shuffles and draws the first card - lets say it's the 9 of clubs. That belongs to the first car in the left lane. Another shuffle and another card is drawn - If it's red it belongs to the right lane - if it's black it belongs to the second car in the left lane. Highest card of the pair gets lane choice. If both cards are the same value the second one gets drawn again.

If you have four staging lanes you just assign a different suit to each lane and use the same procedure as above. Draw two of the same suit and you take them both from the same lane. Hope this helps....

[davea2]

Thanks Don.