Hustler
Get your elbows up and have at it. A really good 1000cc midget should be able to keep up with the average big brother Midget. Not your $60,000.00 Toyota"s or MoPar"s but your average $15,000.00 or so Esslinger will get a run for its money on a small slick track.. A friend of mine and I were talking about the stone cold facts of Midget racing today. 99% of all National Midget racers today are racing for 4th or 5th place. Not many racers can justify a $60,000.00 motor to win a $2,000.00 race. We on the other hand can take an old $2,000.00 almost bone stock ZX10R and run in the middle of the pack in a lot of full Midget races at Montpelier. If and When other track operators catch on to the Montpelier Formula we may see a resurgent of Sportsmen Midgets right at the "Death throes" of the National Midget form of racing.
Rumor has it that several 1200cc (known at the time as Mini Sprints) raced in the first Chili Bowls, and that Sammy may have driven one.
clb>>> we cross the scales at 1025 pounds or so and do pretty good with the Big Midgets. There is a belief out there that all that extra weight is our super secret.
It would sure be nice to try them at about 750 pounds which is the weight we started racing at 20 or so years ago. One of the Tony Felkers FSC cars with an average driver and no frills like we race with and a Suzuki GSXR 1000 required 80 pounds of weight to make the MMSA weight rules.
Honest Dad himself
