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Originally Posted by DAD
Terry
Sounds like a great idea to use starters. USAC was way ahead of that curve on that one. They did that with Midgets 20 years ago and it was a big big success.
Maybe a transmission for them big half mile tracks?
This is starting to sound Sounds like Mini Sprints isn't it, and to be honest we sure can run a race faster than other open wheel cars do.
Back in the day, starters weighed 35 pounds each and batteries weighed 65 pounds, a hundred pound of dead weight. Now 5 pounds for a starter and 5 more pounds for a battery. Maybe the time has come for self starters??  Thanks to USAC we already have the technology setting on the shelf.
BUT Starter's just fly in the face of old time racers, because "that is how we always done it". How could the push truck drivers get into the race anyhow? 
Honest Dad himself  |
I hope your being sarcastic about it being a big success 20 yrs ago,as i recall it about killed midget racing in California with very low car counts and everyone i knew that ran a midget back then bitched and moaned about having to rebuild the clutch paks every few races and added another expense to running their car.
I realize that the componets today are way more advanced than they were 20yrs. ago,but I don't think they could hold up to the abuse of a 850 to 900 horsepower engine for very long without having to constantly rebuild them and thus adding to the cost of running a car which is already insane for the purses that we race for.I feel that going to starters would just put more car owners out of business due to the added costs.(JMO)