Originally Posted by 24midgets:
Just wondering what everybody thinks. I race 3/4 midget and my car and me weights around 900 pounds . The average car weight is like 883 but the driver winning some of races is right at 800 pounds .So im giving up 100 pounds to him ,would he go faster with 100pounds more or slow down a couple of tenths? In another club they have a kid that might be 720 pounds and he is winning every thing in sight . The club i run with has been thinking of changing weight rule to something alittle higher ,so what would be a good number to keep cars more competive?
and should you make change in middle of a race season?
Common sense gives most people the answer, some can't understand it, but here's what the "big boys" figure. On an IRL car, they sometimes change colors everyweek or 2. I watched an interview, with one team, and they were asked why they went to the trouble to remove all the old color, before re-coloring, why not just scuff it and change the color? The answer, the amount of paint used, weighs 7 lbs, in their testing, they found the 7 lbs EXTRA weight, was worth a tenth of a second a lap, rocket science say 10 laps, and you're behind one full second, now, multiply that by the extra amount you weigh, versus the lighter car and driver, and again, rocket science tells you, you'd just as well go fishing, with engine HP being so equal, it makes sense to correct the minimum weight NOW, it isn't that big a deal, to equalize the field. The move to 800lbs, did nothing to equalize the difference, the lightest that was weiged was 801 or 802, most were over 850, and some well over 900, so it should have been at least 850 or 875, to better level the field, it's foolish to make it any other way. Just a thought, if weight doesn't make "any"differrence, then engine size "shouldn't be a factor either, so why not allow bigger engines, to make up for the weight difference? Bob
