Its what killed off grassroots racing. As soon as guys at the local, regional levels decided to race or build cars for a living thats when the saturday nite special guys including me saw the sports expenses spiral out of control. Is it any wonder car counts are down when a "good deal" on a used midget engine is 15 grand or whatever. When the first couple of factory modifieds started coming out I knew the end was near for a team that built their own engines and chassis, for fun. the Weld cars, Grant Kings, ect. killed the spirt of short track racing as I knew it. All thats left is cookie cutters, in a land of explorers the ingenuity was sucked right out of the sport. Add to the fact that nowdays young racers have never heard of the engines in midgets, your drawn to what you know. Thats why i believe the sprintcars if managed right have he most potential to draw younger guys, who hasnt heard of or loved the smallblock chevy. I believe nonwinged sprintcars should be advertised as a extreme sport amoung younger fans and racer's. Extreme is in and whats more extreme than a 410 sprint wheeling off the corner. If anybody expects car counts to rise being the way things are done now and the changing fan base, especially midgets I think your nuts. I think with the sprints, if there was a spec engine class (about 3grand for a 350hp longblock chevy circle track engine) and maybe lose a class or two of the other cars which take from the sprint class you can turn car counts around. Theres 50 modifieds every week at our local tracks.

[Hotshoe65s]

Originally Posted by backitin Its what killed off grassroots racing. As soon as guys at the local, regional levels decided to race or build cars for a living thats when the saturday nite special guys including me saw the sports expenses spiral out of control. Is it any wonder car counts are down when a "good deal" on a used midget engine is 15 grand or whatever. When the first couple of factory modifieds started coming out I knew the end was near for a team that built their own engines and chassis, for fun. the Weld cars, Grant Kings, ect. killed the spirt of short track racing as I knew it. All thats left is cookie cutters, in a land of explorers the ingenuity was sucked right out of the sport. Add to the fact that nowdays young racers have never heard of the engines in midgets, your drawn to what you know. Thats why i believe the sprintcars if managed right have he most potential to draw younger guys, who hasnt heard of or loved the smallblock chevy. I believe nonwinged sprintcars should be advertised as a extreme sport amoung younger fans and racer's. Extreme is in and whats more extreme than a 410 sprint wheeling off the corner. If anybody expects car counts to rise being the way things are done now and the changing fan base, especially midgets I think your nuts. I think with the sprints, if there was a spec engine class (about 3grand for a 350hp longblock chevy circle track engine) and maybe lose a class or two of the other cars which take from the sprint class you can turn car counts around. Theres 50 modifieds every week at our local tracks.

Well sounds like short track racing is doing pretty well in your area if your getting 50 mods every week. And mods aren't any different than the sprint cars. Cookie cutter chassis, and high dollar motors.

Posted via Mobile Device

They'd only have about 22-25 mods if it werent for the 20-25 602 crate mods also in the pits. The crate mods are the best thing they have done for the sport. Guys that spent money on late models and imca mods now spend they're money on modifieds, now that the other two are history here. Its all junk as far as I'm concerned.

true enough/ and not only has this driven up the costs, but (other than safety equipment issues) it has stifened creativity and has increased restrictions/ i loved the old run watcha brung style of racin!

---------- Post added at 5:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 5:05 PM ----------

true enough/ and not only has this driven up the costs, but (other than safety equipment issues) it has stifened creativity and has increased restrictions/ i loved the old run watcha brung style of racin!