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With so much discussion on the rising costs of sprint car racing and Seadog bringing up the 305 sprint class, what would you all think of a "sealed" crate motor sprint class?
At Waynesfield Motorsports Park in Waynesfield, Ohio this season, Dustin Trost lost his good 410 motor and the owner had a carbruated crate motor there in the garage, so they decided to put it in and see what happened. Dustin ran competetive the rest of the season with that crate motor. He was transferring to the a-main and was a 5th to 10th place car with the carburated crate motor against the injected motors. If you didn't know it was a crate motor, you wouldn't really tell the difference.
ASA has been doing this with their traveling late model series and many tracks across the country are running a weekly late model class with great success and a HUGE savings in engine costs.
This could make a sprint car affordable to many of the stock car and modified drivers. Combine your stock car and modified purse pay-out to make a decent purse for the new class, and promoters, you could have a 2 class sprint car and even 1 very cheap and limited stock car class, so that the sprint fans would have time for a beer break & visit session, lol and the 3 large class' would keep your back gate decent.
I would like to hear the opinions of the owners, drivers, fans etc on a "sealed" carburated crate motor sprint car class. The motors are, I believe available in Chevy, Ford or Mopar configuration. IMO a whole class of these would put on a really good show, eleminate the big money advantage and put the sprint car racing back to the drivers skills and not in the best engine builders hands and it could be a fun rivialry with the Chevy, Ford and Mopar fans.
What do you all think of this?
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