The feature is the longest and last race of the night for a division — the main event that pays the purse and the championship points everything earlier in the program was fighting to line up for.
Ask for the A-main at one track and the main event at another; it is the same race. Length and payout swing wildly by class and event. At a Short Track Super Series show at Bridgeport, the Modified feature ran 50 green-flag laps for $5,000 to win while the Sportsman feature ran 25 laps for $1,500. The All Star Circuit of Champions posted more than $1,000,000 in a-main money across its 2026 season, with individual races paying $5,000 to $15,000 to win. Your weekly Saturday feature is shorter and pays less than either, and it is still the race that decides the purse and the bulk of your night’s points. Everything before it is seeding.
The feature is where the money and the points actually change hands, so every setup call and every risk earlier in the night should be judged by whether it makes you better at the end of the show.