Originally Posted by HurstBros0:
Red Hill tried a Jasper Engine crate series years ago... It was a valiant idea but guys with sprint cars already have the other engine stuff ... Guys without were gonna have to buy steel wheels and a 7500 dollar engine they couldn`t work on because of the seals... Carbs on tip over prone cars are kinda scary... If there is enough interest in this grab the bull by the horns, aproach 3-4 local area tracks to run them as a 300 to win 100 to start back up class. Let them run take off tires of any brand (don`t let that gracious 1500$ title sponsor money sway your integrity) , crate engine , invert the whole field from their heat race finish, since they will all have the same power put transponders on them and catch the sandbaggers who think that finishing on the tail of their heat race will start them up front in the feature. Get old Sam Stockon as a consultant because he was the last guy to successfully start a sprint series around here and have it stick. Somebody wins three in a row they get to set out the next three...
But without someone policing all the above you will get the 30,000$ 305 series described in another post. He will cost you a couple thousand a week for him to remain interested in his integrity for your rules... So you will need the promoter to pony up at the least 5 grand a night for your purse and expenses to keep you interested in furthering your venture... All that said... you still have to talk racers into selling their mods, mini`s, bombers etc. to buy into your program to have a full field of cars to get the promoter to roll those dice. If you are still interested and are gonna take the dive... I will be your first guy to commit . I will get me a crate and haul it on my little trailer behind my old 88 Chev truck with 398,000 miles and laugh all the way home with my 100$ in my pocket until I get to the first gas station... 
Wow. I applaud this because it is the truth. It's like I told rob, it is possible to do something like he wanted to do, but it would take a TON of work, selling, dedication, and $ to make it work. The carb thing could be solved by tbi, but it would start adding costs and getting the budget moving back up again. On my end, I just want to put something together so my dad can go practice and see if racing / driving is his cup of tea. Now if someone did do a low budget sprint series locally, I'd be interested, but I'm happy with my mini sprint running w/ the midgets @ Montpelier and learning every time I go out.
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