Originally Posted by thebus79h
I guess I don't understand...
Everybody wants TQ's to thrive... but yet... no-one will listen to people that feel there needs to be change to the rules. If you think a Yamaha R1 wouldn't spin a quickchange, you are mistaken. that motor is a monster, and would do awesome in these little cars.
I truthfully believe the problem isn't the owners, the problem is the clubs that don't want to listen, and have people that build engines on the board, running the show, and helping out. They don't know anything else, and aren't willing to change.
People want to talk about the difference between TQ's and mini/micro sprints amazes me as well. TQ races can be good, but the last few that I've seen (yes, this year), were close races just due to the format, and the style of track... one groove... on the bottom... in a freight train.
If someone is happy going to the track and finishing 5th, that's fine, I'm happy for you, but finishing 5th every week sucks to me, and I wouldn't like it one bit.
Nobody will own up to the fact that the reason people are going to mini's and micros is simple, there are more places to race, and the cars are readily available. Go look around on message boards and see how many cars are for sale in each class. You can barely find a TQ for sale anywhere, but you can find a micro/mini sprint anywhere, most built on a jig in a shop somewhere by a reputable builder, with a motor from a reputable builder in it as well, and made in the last decade.
It's not horrible that you can still run an old car, and win races, but there isn't anywhere I can call just to order axles, or get some radius rods made, without them being custom built. That's not what people do now-a-days. That part of racing has come and gone, and you aren't going to gain any people doing it that way.
It's great all the cars look different, but the difference between a good TQ, and a bad TQ is astounding, where you go to a mini/micro sprint track, the bad micros/minis, still are pretty good stuff.
You cannot fault someone for spending money on a racecar to make it better, but if the rules don't allow for that, something is wrong. I would LOVE to see an outlaw TQ organization started that was 48 inches center to center on the rear tires, and put anything from 1000cc to 1200cc motors in the cars, and make them direct drive. Put a few basic rules on there, measure em, CC em, and go race the damn things and get the ******** out of the sport. The people that have been running the series are the ones that have been involved forever, and haven't looked at the future.
the 600cc micro sprints have been around forever, and it took a while for them to grow, and everybody was pissed off because of the expense of them, well once they all got their heads out their asses and realized it was much cheaper, and you were going to build car count, everybody jumped ship. Times change, and the motors from 10 years ago, you can't be competitive with anymore, but that's part of racing. We are willing to improve lots of things, but the most important part of the whole damn car nobody wants to touch.
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