We do mufflers, Midas changed there name to "Midas Automotive" and tried doing everything, they went out of business here in Louisville. We still do about 90% exhaust work so changing the name to lightning automotive would be like lightning sprint I wouldn't tell the public who we are and what we did. I have a fortune invested in DADS MUFFLER and NO MUFF TOO TUFF and Like pp outlaw. People in Louisville know who DADS is and what we do. 7 out of some 40 some groups in the "US" and "CANADA" go by "Lightning" that does not make it the most popular or the best name for our sport. If you want national rules go to AMSA web-site under rules they have for years set the standard for mini sprint rules around the country. Granted "Mr KOOL AID" chose 750cc for his engine size he also chose "lightning sprint" for a name. So by rights you should also be racing a 750cc lightning sprint right now.

AMSA and MMSA have had different views on how to take the sport forward. The split has not hurt car count much for either group. It only has made the sport better. More cars came in to fill the gap. "COMPETITION" always improves the breed. One group trying to out do the other group, this is just like racing, don't you love it. Nothing has helped midget racing more than "POWERI" Kenny Brown hit a home run and realy grew the midget population in the real mid west. USAC had gotten a little stale and into itself. POWERI kinda of shuck them up a little and got them thinking again. Without a doubt someone can come up with something better than LIGHTNING AND MINI SPRINT>and old teacher of mine use to say "you arent thinking"!

If we combined the groups we would have upward of 45 or 50 cars at each race. Promoters really don't want those numbers and there would be a bunch of cars going home early that is as bad a living where you can't race every weekend. We enjoyed Peoria went a little fast and had hard time getting set up as we had to disconect or shocks that do about the same thing as a wing slider. We have already had many so called nationals drawing as many as 60 cars to a race. But only in a dictator group is every one going to be on the same page. But if you are good you will have a lot of followers. We are very lucky to have two Benevolent Dictators runing our groups. You can say all you want but they will make the final decishion, nothing worse than sitting around a meeting with 50 people all with the right idea.