I'm just a bit curious as to how one is supposed to stop people from innovating? Exactly how do you write a rule book that takes every single possible element of a racecar into account? Then what happens when some clever racer comes up with a part that meets the rulebook but doesn't meet your thoughts of what a racecar should be. Should the deciding factor on whether to allow the part is if it costs more than $100? Haven't midgets historically been the place with the most innovation in the midget/sprint/silver crown car world?

Let's talk about dished nose pieces for example. How much dish is too much? Any? What if the winner has his nose crushed in by a rock? He may have started the race with negative dish but finished it with positive dish. Should he be dq'd? Let's say the dished hoods are disallowed. What if I decide to create another device of some sort whose sole intent is to create nose downforce and do it in such a way that it falls within the rules. Let's call it a belly pan. What it I then put it underneath my legal nosepiece. I have a legal nosepiece but I've now thought of something different. Wouldn't it just be less aggravating to you and the sanctioning body if you just shot me then?

Who decides that some aspect of a car not covered in the rulebook is wrong? The dished hood came directly from wing cars. USAC already had a rule for how far above/below the downtubes for bodywork could be for the sprintcars. The dished noses fell within those measurements. Please explain to me what rationale the officials could use for disallowing someone's car when it was legal within the stated rules?

Midget racing (and all racing in general) has multiple problems right now. The cost/return ratio is waay out of whack. I don't see the return part changing anytime soon so the cost has to be addressed. There's no way to reduce the costs without making some group unhappy. You should just make everyone unhappy and make midgets a spec series. Everything is identical. Hell, let's take it farther. Make the series just like Go Kart World. USAC provides the racecars and the drivers draw for which car they get.


The problem in midget racing has very little to do with nosepieces. Fixing nosepieces is akin to pissing in the wind with all the other problems. Finding a way for the midgets to continue is a big, looming problem and I just don't see how addressing it by starting at the lower cost items is the solution.