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Originally Posted by DonMoore10
I think for this to work locally it first needs to be approved at a higher level. If you look at who has been showing up for USAC, POWRi and Badger races, you will notice that the events with high car counts are many times a result of interclub exchange. Most of the high car counts in POWRi have been when Badger is added to the event. Same with USAC midget week. Those shows were padded with ARDC teams. The USAC shows at Sun Prairie have bigger car counts since you really have two organizations supplying the cars. This is not the way it used to be. Badger on a good night would have 30-40 cars on the ground. The USAC midget division used to be somewhat independent and would run races against USAC sprint and Silver Crown events and still have an impressive group of cars. For example, Years ago, USAC would run a 100 lap midget race on Labor Day at the Ohio State Fair against a USAC Champ Car race at DuQuoin, IL and both races had full fields of cars. But now we have pseudo type car counts that look impressive but they are really the result of 2 or more organization supporting the event. POWRi seems to be the only organization that can consistently have 20 or more cars but only if the race is within about 80-100 miles of St. Louis. Then you will see a handful of regular POWRi cars plus cars from the region such as Kansas, OK and western Missouri. I have some additional comments about the Montpelier shows but those are for another thread. The conclusion I would draw is that almost every organization currently needs the other to get qa decent car count which is not a very healthy situation.
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This is where you lose most people in your logic. The ASCS rules were developed because there was a demand for a lower cost sprint car rules for the owners that could not afford a 410. The 410 series continued to be the premier touring series. The 305 series were developed because there was a demand for a lower cost sprint car series for the owners that could not afford and ASCS 360. As observed last weekend, the 360 class is still going strong with the 305 series.
I believe that there is room for the national series (USAC/POWRi/Badger), and then room for another lower level of midgets with a spec motor and a spec tire. To ask the national series to change their rules because the local person cannot afford the series does not make sense. Having a local series where people could race on a more reasonable budget makes sense. By keeping the rules of the classes close, you would be able to have the more successful local teams purchasing a "national" motor and running both series. Just like the cars in Knoxville that are racing both the 360 nationals and the 410 nationals.
Trying to put all the people into your box does not make any sense. What makes more sense is to create a different box. This is why the ASCS series were created. This is why the 305 series were created, and this is why the WOO series is still the premier division.