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Originally Posted by hoscalecody
I like how some of you guys complain about the cars being the same or clone cars, yet midgets and sprint cars are basically that right now.
Even the Chili Bowl, is almost that, minus a couple of cars. 370 cars and probably close to 90% of them are Spikes, that all look the same running either a TRD or SR11/x, unless it's a smaller team, that doesn't have the budget for one of them engines. Go to a national show and spike probably built 95% or more of the chassis there, and guess what? Besides the vinyl the cars have almost identical bodies too. Most sprint car races non wing or winged are the same. Crap most sprint car chassis are almost identical, even when it's built by different manufactures. For instance Triple X and Maxim, almost identical looking chassis, although the majority of one built in China.
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HaHa good one hoscalecody!
As a big sprint/midget guy that has also road raced, in hindsight it would have been better if the IRL NEVER happened!!! Yes I said it. I loved it at the time just like you all did. For the same reasons you did. But looking at things now, with the momentum that CART had leading up to 1996 it could very well be that top tier openwheel racing would have been the premire American racing sport instead of NAPCAR. As it is now, you listen to your sprint car buddies and they all know what happened at "Bristol" or "Talladega" but they dont even know that IndyCar has a race at Iowa! THey know none of the drivers (How can you NOT like Helio or Kannan?) And to REALLY think that Dixon isnt "all that" is just being ignorant because you never saw him turn a lap at Kokomo... All it takes is to watch one race and see some interviews and now you "know" the drivers like you complain that you DON'T know them. But then they go and watch NASCRAP with a few sprint car guys but the rest have turned a lap at Paragon either....
