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Originally Posted by DAD
The problem is probably not with national midget racing and high priced national midget racing hardware, the problem is no one has been around to develop a local midget racing program that would prohibit teams from coming in with the high priced national midget stuff and killing the sport for teams that have no desire to travel 60,000 miles per year to race.
The folks up at Montpelier and even Mini- sprints (1000cc midgets) I mean are addressing this problem pretty well and perhaps need more support. I am not as discriminating fan as many but put 20 motorcycle powered cars on the track racing together and I can't tell the difference between them and the high priced national cars.
The national racers are the elite give them the big old race tracks and let them race their hearts out to smaller and smaller crowds but separate them and their equipment from the local racers.
Rules do need to be made to exclude modern national equipment from racing with the local clubs.
Speaking of Snowmobile engines the really bad ones now are powered by 4 cycle motorcycle type engines. The old 2 cycle has just plain lost out in the horsepower race, but they sure smell good . One of the things I really loved when I was a kid was that smell coming from some of them funny sounding midgets.
Click on www.ussaprostar.com these guys are putting midget frames on snowmobiles.
Honest Dad himself  |
At the risk of offending those concerned with thread hijacking, I'd like to point out the many midget clubs, including Badger and ARDC, were Class B organizations which only allowed stock block/head engines to race. Badger stayed that way until they let Offys and then Sescos compete in the late 1970s. It was a big mistake then and clubs could learn something from it now. I appreciate that professional engine builders need to earn a living but when you can't build/fix your own motor the cost of any class of racing goes up quickly.
Chuck Schultz
Winfield, Illinois