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Originally Posted by admin 1/23/20 11:37 AM USAC NATIONAL RULE CHANGES AND ENFORCEMENTS FOR 2020 http://usacracing.com/news/silver-cr...ments-for-2020 USAC NATIONAL RULE CHANGES AND ENFORCEMENTS FOR 2020 Speedway, Indiana (January 23, 2020)………USAC has announced rule changes and enforcements to be utilized beginning with the 2020 season for the USAC Silver Crown Champ Car, AMSOIL National Sprint Car and NOS Energy Drink National Midget series. * ALL DIVISIONS: In Silver Crown, National Sprint and National Midget competition, lapped cars will be sent to the tail of the field for all restarts during the feature event. All radius rods must be one piece on cars for the Silver Crown, National Sprint and National Midget divisions in 2020.* No spring rods or shock dampers will be allowed. * SILVER CROWN: The weight rule for Silver Crown has been increased to 1,675 pound minimum, with driver. *Rules regarding added weight for aluminum blocks will remain the same. * AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CARS: Split qualifying will be retained for 2020.* In the event of more than 36 cars in attendance, qualifying will be split into two flights.* Cars will only qualify against other cars in their flight and fill heats 1-2 or heats 3-4. *For lineup purposes, the fastest qualifier in the slower flight will be considered the #2 seed.* That will continue through the field and be used to grid feature lineups. Qualifying points will be awarded to the overall fastest six. For the feature lineup, positions 7-10 will be filled by the heat race winners in order of heat races.* If a car in the top-6 feature invert wins a heat race, the available spots 7-10 are filled by qualification order of cars qualified for the feature event. If there are 30 cars or less, three heat race events will be conducted.* If there are 31 or more cars in attendance, four heat races will be conducted. The weight rule for Sprints has been increased to 1,375 pound minimum, with driver. * NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: In the National Midget division, no split qualifying will be held. For the feature lineup, positions 7-10 will be filled by the heat race winners in order of heat races.* If a car in the top-6 feature invert wins a heat race, the available spots 7-10 are filled by qualification order of cars qualified for the feature event. If there are 30 cars or less, three heat race events will be conducted.* If there are 31 or more cars in attendance, four heat races will be conducted. *

I want to point something out. USAC raised the min weight on both the Sprint Cars and Silver Crown cars. However, quite a few years ago they changed the min weight for Midgets from 900lbs car only to 1050lbs with driver. Then just a couple years back lowered that to 1035lbs with driver. I ask why? Using logic this tells me now that your average driver in USAC is supposed to weigh 135lbs? Really?

By comparison POWRI stuck with the 1050lbs weight rule and Badger is at 1100lbs with driver. USAC seems to be forcing Midget teams to spend more and more money on carbon fiber, titanium, etc just to keep up (and possibly run an illegal Chili Bowl chassis outdoors with a cage less than .095. I often wonder how many teams may be doing this and never get caught?). The average person does not weigh 135lbs or even 150lbs! According to the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm), the average weight of a male in the US is 197.8lbs and 170.5lbs for a woman! Wouldn't you think you could take the average of those two or even just go with the average weight of a woman as your guideline and make the rule 1070lbs with driver?