[QUOTE=Papa Outlaw;257611]Hey Dad I agree with most of what you said the only issue is change...If every organization in the nation would adapt a national rules package and name all at one time problem solved...like that is gonna happen....I like the midget part...anything to get away from the word MINI....there is only 1 organization in the nation that uses the word midget to discribe our cars and that is http://azmodifiedmidget.com/site/....Which I do like, but the nation and the general public know these cars as mini sprint then again as Bob has said 250/270 are micro sprints and some organizations with 600's are call micros and some mini...hell even I get confused who to send stuff out to for the winternationals...again as Bob quotes:"micros and sidewinder600 have 10" tires and wheels and the minis have 13" wheels and tires" most is true but here in Florida the FMSA (Florida Mini Sprint Association) run 10" and 750's.

You are very right on having a uniformed name. I personally like Modified Midgets but so many TRUE mini sprints series have changed to Lightning Sprints in the past 2 years, not only in the USA but also in Australia and New Zealand so Lighning has worked for me. This is something that I will be bring up at the promoters workshop in Orlando at the PRI show in Dec....Damn good write up and hope it does not fall on death ears Dad!!!!!![COLOR="Black"]


Charleston IL still goes by Coles County Modified Midget Association (CCMMA). They run Jr sprints thru 600's. Side mounted engines or upright, it's your choice. Though the track was est. in 1956, it did start out as micro midgets until it joined the now defunked NMMA.
The sidewinders or side mounted engines seem to come around on the 125 and 250 classes in the latter 70's.
For you history nuts, look in your collection of Open Wheel mags from the first year, not sure which issue, and there was a story and pics of a so called mini sprint club in MN that ran snowmobile engines in them....clutch and belt drive to a jack shaft.......way before Doemelt, Bailey, EMC, and Competition Welding started building the 1000+cc cars of the late 80's.

Since they are bike engines why not "Moto-Sprints" or better yet "Moto-Midgets".......and then we can refer to them as M&M's

Steve