[Chris Nunn]

With the chili bowl having so many midgets, do most of the owners and drivers just bring them out once a year JUST for the chili bowl? What would it take to dust them off for midget week?

And as for the Little 500, where do all of these pavement cars come from? when we only can garner 11-14 for a pavement race, this race gathers almost 40

[Dyno Don]

Originally Posted by Chris Nunn With the chili bowl having so many midgets, do most of the owners and drivers just bring them out once a year JUST for the chili bowl? What would it take to dust them off for midget week? And as for the Little 500, where do all of these pavement cars come from? when we only can garner 11-14 for a pavement race, this race gathers almost 40

Can not answer your Midget question, but the Sprints at The Lil 500 are a different breed. They do not use USAC spec's, so you get a variety of cars. Like old roadsters that USAC out lawed years ago,some homemade contraptions and a lot of cars that are almost antigue. Throw in 15 -20 USAC spec. Sprinter and you get 33 plus cars.

[cmakin]

Originally Posted by Dyno Don Can not answer your Midget question, but the Sprints at The Lil 500 are a different breed. They do not use USAC spec's, so you get a variety of cars. Like old roadsters that USAC out lawed years ago,some homemade contraptions and a lot of cars that are almost antigue. Throw in 15 -20 USAC spec. Sprinter and you get 33 plus cars.

A lot of the cars are the Xtreme winged sprints sans billboards.

[Checker'd Past]

Originally Posted by Dyno Don Can not answer your Midget question, but the Sprints at The Lil 500 are a different breed. They do not use USAC spec's, so you get a variety of cars. Like old roadsters that USAC out lawed years ago,some homemade contraptions and a lot of cars that are almost antigue. Throw in 15 -20 USAC spec. Sprinter and you get 33 plus cars.

Hey Dyno, you need to read the rules for the Little 500. Check out what the rules say about roadsters. Total purse for Little 500 is over $123,000. Rememeber Dyno, I am just one of those Anderson (as you call us) RUBES!

[Mud Packer]

Originally Posted by Chris Nunn With the chili bowl having so many midgets, do most of the owners and drivers just bring them out once a year JUST for the chili bowl? What would it take to dust them off for midget week? And as for the Little 500, where do all of these pavement cars come from? when we only can garner 11-14 for a pavement race, this race gathers almost 40

Chris,

I think both of the races you mentioned are considered "events". Races like these bring owners and their cars out that a "normal" show won't. Some of the cars are specialty type cars that we only see at these events.

One of the things that Kevin Miller of USAC mentioned when he was hired was that they needed more "events". I was pleased to see that they have the Smackdown coming to Kokomo this year for the sprint cars. This should be a great three days of racing. Tri City in Illinois has the end of the year midget show that also would be classified as an event.

As far as the Little 500 is concerned, a number of the cars come from Florida and Michigan. They also have some of the winged warriors from TBARA, AVSS, HOSS and Extreme take off the wings and participate as well. As USAC found out, a regular show won't entice these folks to travel to Indiana to participate. Pavement sprint car racing right now is mostly winged racing.

[darnall]

Some examples of why the ChiliBowl has huge counts..... Many midget racers have a backup car. All year long it sits in the shop or in the top of the trailer as long as the primary car isn't tore up. At the Chili Bowl all those backup cars typically end up getting used as rent a rides for somebody else.

Brad Loyet has nearly a dozen midgets in his operation, but all through the year he is a one car team...just him driving the orange #05 car....for the Chili Bowl his dad hires 4 or 5 high profile drivers. He wants that driller trophy bad so he enters 5 or 6 cars with the likes of Stanbrough, Shuman, Pickens, Gary Taylor, Gardner, etc in the seats to try to grab a driller.

Cory Kruesman runs a midget at home regularly, and he leases rides in multiple focus midgets and possibly a full midget out there. Come Chilibowl time he has 4-5 extra cars with rental drivers in them.

There are about 20-30 "Chilibowl specials" in shops around the country, Including the 2 Swindell cars. These are typically cars owned by Sprintcar drivers that just get used once a year and were built just for running the Chilibowl. Many have lighter frames and other components that wouldn't be stout enough to stand up to a crash on a larger track. Darryn Pittman has a midget that he built just to run the chilibowl with but he has also taken it to the DuQuion indoor race the last couple of years.

Many of the cars at the bowl are regional cars that wouldn't be near competitive enough to go run with the level of competition at midget week. There are quite a few cars from Texas that have old Pontiac motors and such. They have a small chance at being competitive on a track the size of the bowl but for sure aren't competitive enough for a guy to come all the way from TX to IN to race.

And finally, several of the cars you see at Tulsa aren't even complete cars the rest of the year. Quite a few guys own a midget roller but not a motor, and they lease an engine from a bigger team or from an engine builder for the week. Fontana does quite a few motor leases every January, and I think Esslinger does as well.

And again, if it wasn't such an "EVENT" you wouldn't see all those people going thru that much trouble and expense to race. Yes Indy midget week is a great event, but it's right smack in the middle of the season when 200 of the bowl competitors are involved in racing with whatever series they regularly run. It's hard to justify driving all the way to Indy from Colorado, California or Pennsylvania but really hard to justify skipping races close to home to do it.

[Rogue-9]

A lot of the midgets at the chili bowl are local that run with SMRS, and a lot are also from California. Add the Powri and USAC guys, and then add the midgets that were rented for the event, which they offer, and you get over 200.

[Cpleus]

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