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11/11/11, 12:45 PM   #2
Re: National Lightning Sprint Car Rules
DAD
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They would probably get more hits on "IOW". Sounds like a couple of guys wishing they could make the 1000cc Sprint world perfect. By the time they are done they will have a 250 page rule book that makes sense to no one. The best way to keep racing less expensive is to keep the rule book short.

There is also only so many 1000 cc motors out there, when everybody has to have one that will make them more expensive and harder to find. The 600 and 750 and even 1200 and 1400 cc motors work well in these cars. We either need a class or a way to handicap these motors into use to keep the sport in-expensive.

The guy up in "Canada" who invented the name "lightning Sprint" also chose 750cc motors instead of 1000 or 1200 cc motors. If you Ebay for 750cc motors they are cheap because nobody wants them the same holds true for 1200 and 1400 cc motors. The person who figures out how to put all of these motors together and make a competive class will have really done something. The reason we raced 600 cc motors back in the 80's and 90's is they were a lot cheaper than the all out 1200cc motors. Then a guy invented the sidewinder and made the cost of 600cc motors go up. So we went to 1000cc motors. Now they make a 1000cc sidewinders so we had better be looking for another motor pretty soon.