Here's something extremely novel. Let's be innovative and dream up ways to bring the cost down of fielding a midget.

I'm trying to also dream up ways of getting the point across here of this thread. Let's try this again: A dished hood is only one tiny, tiny, tiny tiny, tiny part of the issue here with midgets. T-I-N-Y. Guys, despite what you'd like to see happen with technology and innovation, the worst direction we could go right now is dreaming up one more item or one more penny to put on or spend on a midget.

I think one of the main problems here in understanding the subject is that midget racing has gotten so far beyond reason that you people have no idea how far off the track it has gotten. Your concept of a midget team is Steve Lewis and all the disciples that have followed in his path. Go to a USAC national midget race and walk thru the pits or for that matter, just stand by the pit gate as all the haulers make their way into the pits. Take all that in and then remind yourself that they are racing for $2500 to win and the purse drops off dramically after that.

Public schools are in big trouble in the state of Ohio, much like midget racing. The state legislature keeps dreaming up new mandated programs ( innovation, guys!!!) with no funding to go along with it. Yeah... Here are several new innovative programs that you must implement. Have a great time figuring out how you're going to pay for them. Using the reasoning I'm reading on here, you people probably think this is just fine. Try telling that to the school boards in Ohio that are over their heads in debt and no way out. No different in midget racing, guys.... but in midget racing we have people like Steve Lewis who have bottomless pockets and can keep spending for an eternity without feeling the pinch. That's what most of you perceive at this time of what midget racing is about.