It's pretty simple. In both USAC and Powri the the car count correlates to the size of the track. Tri City is a horsepower track for a midget, the guys that pay the bills don't feel that it is worth the mileage on the motors at a place they can't be real competitive.

Well the Toyotas do seem to be dominating.

Most Illinois and St. Louis-area teams decided that Granite City was too big. I think the last POWRi race there had like 14 cars. Midgets just keep trending to smaller and smaller tracks.

just to compare apples to apples, the first night of mod mania had around 118 cars... 75 mods and 43 late models had to qualify, run heats.. dashes.. multiple c-mains.. multiple b-mains.. and a-mains. the payout was pretty much the same, gold crown used a pill draw for around 29 midgets. I would assume the heats would start a little later at mod mania. great racing at both events, but in my opinion, I would love to see usac run a 3 day show with midgets and non wing sprints... now that would be a gold crown nationals. tri-city would be the perfect track.

Wow, I'm surprised to hear that. Saw my first POWRi show recently at Belle Claire & thought it was great! No qualifying, super competitive racing
And no domination by Keith Kunz & his hordes.....

The writing is on the wall, fans. It's time to say goodbye to these expensive exotic engines. Fans love great competitive racing, not speed. The sooner this happens the sooner you will see the revival of midget racing and you won't be having a discussion like this thread.

Does that mean you're shelving your MoPars and getting Eco Tecs or Mini Sprint engines?

Time will tell.

This has less to do with Powri and USAC, and more to do with Kenny Brown and the Gold Crown. Remember a few years ago he scheduled a make up race at Belleville against this event. I understand where why some teams budget does not make sense to run this show. The worst part is you have a track, that is a really nice place,and good sponsors,who are willing to pay pretty good money for a midget race,not getting the support they probably deserve. This is what makes me laugh when people say, I want more high dollar races, or all the tracks need to do is get more sponsors. I think Tri City and the sponsors deserve better. We have had a great time, and the racing has been good. I think it funny that the car count is not of a big of a deal here at the track, as it is on the Internet.Again. Have fun wherever you go to the races tonight.

I'm just surprised more cars don't go to this with the posted purse. As someone else posted a mod race with this purse would have 100 cars. And I know first hand mod motors are not cheap either at over $20k.

I would think there would be guys local that would still try and hit this show up with that purse.

I do agree more cars isn't necessarily a better show but a few more to have a b would be good.