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montpelier midgets
So far we have 16 cars 10 Tate martz 44 Tyler ransbottom 3e Alex Watson 85 hollingsworth 52 Mike gass 21x spidel 53 schuck 55 winks 2 briggs 7r daughtery 3 bean 30 tredway 21d dickerson 12 kreigbaum 83 bruns 74 rader
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21 cars signed in before hot laps
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Thats freaking awesome
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How many "different" cars are there besides a standard midget?
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Updates may be far and few between but I will do what i can. We have some mini sprints, 2 ff midgets, and the rest are midgets.
Heat 1: 21k-mayhew-44Ransbottom 52-Gass -53 Schuck 7r Daughtery-16 Berryhill 12 Kreigbaum Heat 2: 7 Lehr- 3e Watson 6rr Tilton-55 Winks 11 Grey- 30 Tredway 83 Bruns Heat 3: 10 Martz-85 Hollingsworth 21x Spidel-2 Briggs 3 Bean - 21d Dickerson 74 Rader |
Berryhill wins heat 1 over Mayhew.
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Midget feature Lineup:
1 Todd Lehr- 16 Travis Berryhill 3e Alex Watson 10 Tate Martz 85 Shane Hollingsworth 21k Kurt Mayhew 44 Tyler Ransbottom 55 Rob Winks 21x Nick Spidel 52 Mike Gass 83 Patrick Bruns 2 Stratton Briggs 7r Nick Daughtery 30 Adam Tredway 74 Drew Rader 12 Kent Kreigbaum 6rr Lynsey Tilton 21d Justin Dickinson 53 Aaron Schuck 11 Brandon Grey 3 Jessica Bean Feature is 20 laps..I will try and update after the race but cant promise. |
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Where are the Mini Sprints lining up and are they 1000cc mini sprints.
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I think Bean and Winks are 1000cc cars. The #1 car of Lehr is the Evolution Ford car from WIMS.
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Watson, Ransbottom, Winks, Daugherty, Treadway, and Rader are all mini-sprints that run Waynesfield.
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Awesome car count. Way to go montpelier.
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Shane Hollingsworth won tonights feature over travis berryhill, kurt mayhew, todd Lehr, Nick Spidel, Tate Martz, Watson, Briggs, Winks, Daughtery, Bean, Dickerson, Schuck, Tredway, Bruns, Gass, Rader, Kreigbaum, Ransbottom..Brandon grey and Lynsey Tilton dns.
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Thanks Brian and CW for doing a great job with updates.
Congrats to all the 1000cc cars and Todd Lehr in his Evolution car from WIMS. Sure wish we could have made it. Those up dates help get other racers excited. Honest Dad himself:6::6: |
Hollingsworth and Berryhill put on a good show for the lead. Shane spun while running second came through the field back to Berryhill. After that it was lead swapping between Hollingsworth and Berryhill until the very end.
Also, congrats to Lynsey Tilton for winning the first track championship for the Midget class. Thanks everyone for your support tonight. We appreciate it! Posted via Mobile Device |
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Tate Martz also did a great job in the Don Moore 10. While running second he slipped over the cushion in one on lap nine, caught the guardrail with the right rear and did a "Tommy Tipover". Got righted and pushed off, came up through the field to get 6th. He picked off four cars in the last green-white-checker restart riding around up on the rim; pretty ballsy after getting bit up there earlier...
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Once things got going..it was really good racing..the battle for the lead was pretty intense..Tate Martz is a gasser..the mini sprints did well..I want to personally thank everyone for coming out tonight..Everyone have a great night!
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Sounds like a good show...Sounds like the Evolution car kept up really nice with the midgets because it is a midget...You guys can keep it down there if ya want... because it don't belong in the mini sprint class up here...:6:
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A very enjoyable night of midget racing at Montpelier last night. It was fun to watch Shane Hollingsworth charge from the rear of the field back up to battle Travis Berryhill for the lead during the later portion of the feature. Shane used all of the race track to get back up to the front. Good battles throughout the field as well.
As mentioned by jjones752, Tate Martz in Don Moore's #10 was running the high line and caught the guardrail and flipped. I thought that he would be done for the night and off to the pits when they got him pointed in the right direction and pushed him off. Instead of moving off of the top line he got up on the wheel :31: and pushed it harder on top to come home with a respectable finish. The kids a gasser for sure. We also stayed for the modifieds and the feature was very good. A lot of side by side racing and they put on a good show for the folks in attendance. Congratulations to Lynsey Tilton on her championship and also a big congrats to the Montpelier Speedway staff for a nice evening of racing. I hope the midget deal can work for you folks and we can have an alternative to sprint cars on Saturday. I thought the crowd was decent and a lot of kids at the races. Also a class act by Shane Hollingsworth to give a kid in the crowd the trophy in front of crowd after the feature. The smile on the kids face was priceless. Probably will be a Shane Hollingsworth fan for life. I would like to see the show moved along better than it was last night. Too much down time and when you have a curfew I would think that would use the time wisely. Instead of 20 lap features for the midgets and the modifieds, maybe you could make them 25 laps and offer more racing. Just my opinion and we were still out of there at 10:20 PM so no major complaint. We look forward to hearing the plans for midget racing next year. |
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This was a really great night of racing. All kinds of power plants were in the field. As pointed out, Tate Martz was awesome. He really let it all hang out. He must have caught that guard rail by about an inch going for the lead, but the car is OK and he is OK. He will be back.
A huge thank you goes to the management of Montpelier Speedway for believing that midgets can make a comeback in the state of Indiana. They have stuck with this plan when no other promoter was willing to stick their neck out and it seemed to have all come together last night. 21 midgets in the pits is quite an accomplishment. Montpelier is a terrific midget track and we look forward to watching this series grow. Thanks again for making this happen! And by the way.... NO TIRE RULE!! We saved a ton of money last night by not being forced to buy the purple tires. Hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Congrats to Tate and Don. Bout time someone put him in a fullsize Midget. Thanks Don.:32:
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tate is definately a gasser. the moves on the outside on front stretch was definately breathtaking
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Tate's a great kid from a great family. He has very little seat time in a full midget on dirt. He has raced a full midget on pavement on occasion. I would love to see Tate get more full midget starts on dirt!
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I didn't get a chance to mention Tate in my first post, but his ride on the high side was incredible. I know when the push truck got behind Tate to restart him after the flip a big cheer went up in the crowd. Don, at Montpelier alone, gave three guys new to Midget racing a shot that they may not have ever received otherwise. Tate certainly took no prisoners with his shot and turned a lot of heads!
We want to sincerely thank everyone for their support last night, and throughout the season. We know it is tough to support a new series with the uncertainties that surround it, but we hope you felt like we gave you a good place to race, followed rules, treated everyone fairly, and followed through with everything we said we would do. We certainly worked hard at it. At the end of our season, we will survey where we are at with the series, again look from input from car owners and drivers, etc... Feel free to PM me or email me (bemcevoy@yahoo.com) with any questions or comments, and I will get back with you. Pictures From Last Night:http://mcevoyracingphotos.smugmug.co...5397517_XQCTDR Full Results @ www.MontpelierMotorSpeedway.com Find us on Facebook @ www.facebook.com/MontpelierMotorSpeedway |
Top notch folks at Montpelier including track personnel, car owners, and drivers. Thank you for giving an opportunity to us to have fun and put on a good show. I hope to see this deal keep building in 2013 and beyond because it feels like a great home track for us 3 hours away.... Thank you, Patrick Mead
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SETracing had an awesome time at the track Saturday. Wish we coulda got the 52 refired after the 2nd red but we will build on last weekends event and get ready for next time. Looking forward to coming back to Montpelier Motor Speedway. It was fun to race against national cars and run competively.
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My son Alex drives the 3E minisprint – to be honest, I thought we’d make the drive from Columbus, Ohio once, say we ran against midgets on a full-sized track, and that would be it. However, we had a blast, met some great people, found we could run competitively, and decided to come back as often as we could. So despite the logistical challenges of Alex off to school at Miami University, plans to participate in the Hewitt the next night, etc., there was no way we would miss the Montpelier’s midget season finale. I’m proud as heck with the job Alex did, running 5th most of the feature and just getting edged by Tate at the checkered. Thanks to Lynsey Tilton and Joe Ligouri for their efforts to promote the series, and the help they provided to all the competitors – congrats to Lynsey on her points championship. To Brian and the staff at Montpelier, thanks for making us feel welcome, and all your efforts to support midget racing, regardless what engine is under the hood.
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Shane is a badass! Definently put on a clinic :)
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Thanks everyone for the kind comments and feedback for season 1 of the Midget class. I will share the comments on this thread with Harold once our season ends and we begin to plan for 2013. The feedback and comments will be helpful for next season.
We will again resurvey car owners, drivers, and fans during the end of October looking for additional feedback and thoughts for the 2013 season. Congratulations to our first Midget track champion, Lynsey Tilton and to Nick Speidel for being our 2012 Rookie of the Year. Each finisher in the top 5 will receive a cash payout, trophy, and an opportunity to speak at our banquet on November 10. Lynsey and Nick will also receive a jacket for their accomplishments. Top 5 Points - 2012 Points 1. #6RR Lynsey Tilton 2. #74 Joe Liguori 3. #21 Nick Speidel 4. #4 Gary Bradley 5. #3 Alex Watson Anyone interested in attending our banquet (Top 5 drivers, any drivers/car owner who participated in the series, sponsors, car owners, fans,etc...), you will need to order tickets to be able to attend. We are limited to 200 spots in the new Montpelier Civic Center, and tickets will sale out. A catered meal is served with each ticket purchase. Ticket ordering through the mail is availiable and ordering information can be found at the link below. Banquet Ticket Ordering Info:http://www.montpeliermotorspeedway.c...012Banquet.htm |
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I thought the type of schedule they had with the midgets this year was a nice fit. I do not think there are enough local midgets to support racing them every week. I think that was evident based on the numbers they got throughout the summer. However, they also had some shows that had good numbers at the beginning and end of the season. I think continuing to run them as a special series, bi-weekly or about 8-10 shows during the year is the way to continue this program. Since a majority of the midgets are traveling a fair distance to Montpelier, it would only be asking them to make a trip about every other week. If it is every week, it might be asking too much for a lot of them, and car counts would probably be pretty low. It would also allow many of the drivers and teams that race sprints or have commitments elsewhere to miss fewer races than if they raced every week, which might encourage them to run when they are having midgets. I don't see very many locals or track regulars having an interest in building a midget. Montpelier is a stock car track, but I think the support for the midget races this year was pretty good.
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And we live in an open wheel state..I want to see Montpelier go more open wheel in the future..I think if they choose to go with the Midgets again next year that they need to stay on the 10 or so show schedule like they did this year, I also hope that more Indiana cars show up next year..
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Maybe more "hoosiers" might have them if there was a place to run. This year many people were holding back. Why buy a car to travel to Power I or Stars. Wolverine started then threw everyone under the bus. Limited groups turned into "Young Guns" and the X group came and went. Could you blame people for being hesitant. Takes time to catch hold.
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10 or so shows would be awesome. Its a 3 hour drive for us but thinking real hard about building one. Just waiting to see. Also heard at 4 crown from a national driver that he was asked about running them at Bloomington on a limited basis
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I hope they avoid scheduling midgets on holiday weekends. Otherwise this program is off to a very good start.
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Might be a little early for this but any updates on next season. I'm asking because I'm getting ready to freshen up the cars for next year. Thank you
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We are trying secure plans also. Would be nice to know soon. Had a great time even with the 5hr drive.
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I am sure they will be having a meeting in the coming weeks about next year. Thanks everyone for the support this year..
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I understand that you run the full midgets with the 1000cc cars ? My question is how do you level the playing field ? They are talking about doing this here in Missouri.
Just wondering if you guys use a floating weight difference ? Bobby Layne 2011 Midwest Lightning Sprint Champion 2012 Midwest Lightning Sprint Champion |
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Midgets: Minimum Weight - 1,050 Pounds (Including Driver) - Cars powered by Fontana, Esslinger, Stanton, Gaerte, and other purpose built engines are legal and will fall under this guideline. Midgets Powered By Spec Engines, Volkswagen, Entirely Stock Production Block and Head, Chevy II, etc... - No Minimum Weight Tires Open Tire Rule (Compound and Brand) All 4 Corners with a maximum 10" width right rear Mini Sprints: Engine/Drive Train All 1000CC and greater Upright Mini Sprints (Non Wing) are eligible to compete in the midget class. Cars falling under Mini Sprint rules will be motorcycle engine powered and may be chain driven or utilize a traditional driveline and quick-change rear end. All cars under caution and restarts shall maintain an idle speed as great as the full production midget. Cars that fail to do this will be sent to the tail. Weight No Minimum Weight Tires Open Tire Brand/Compound with a maximum 12" width right rear. |
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