They have complete communication with the starters, as well as the other track officials. This complete communication enables proper line-ups, during and prior to the race. These short forms allow the scorer to communicate in a very quick manner.
All cars run two heat races.
Start of the first heat is inverted for the 2 nd heat - so who ever starts poll in the first heat will start last in the 2 nd set of heats. This is also how the feature for Specials and Invationals are quite often lined up. Some of the exceptions to this rule are inverting the finish of the first and of coarse the track reserves the right to invert as many cars as it sees fit. Show up point are given to each car that is registered and signed in for that race night, as long as the car is race ready. The show up points are not added to heat points.