today you have very few hired guns out there! Its no longer drivers starting in b-circuits my first race car i drove was a 1941 hilligas v8 ford 60 midget! NO ROLL BAR NO CAGE NO WING WITH A HAND BRAKE! HOW MANY WOULD PUT THERE 12 YR.OLD IN THAT? Maybe a $800 race car! Where a usac offy midget back then cost new bout $6000 in feb 1963 a nascar race at sunshine speedway st. Pete fla. Now all this kids are trying to get to nascar!!!!!!! I started there!!!!!!!! The car was from new york and he did not have a driver i told him i was racing midgets in in. Ill ohio and he said ok! He would give me a try! Oh ****! Ask any driver over 50 how they started back then in some old ******* that looked like a million dollars! I tell you if the greatest drivers we have seen like parnelli aj unsers dickson bigelow beale bettenhausen carter ward rathman herk hewitt and many more! Had to start today as a 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 old you would have never heard of them! Cause they where not rich kids that there parents got them a $100000 dollar race car to start in! I had no money my father died in 1957 and my mom rasied 5 kids! I don't give a damm how people spend there money but its killed open wheel racing! No b-cars or circults for guys to start in open wheel! Put a $3500 claim on midgets engines and $7500 on sprint engines so a guy could own a car and hire somebody to drive it!