Phil

I did the number crunch thing again and it looks like 1/4 mile and smaller are at 50% and 3/8 th mile tracks are also at 50% in you guys schedual. PowerI chose a lot of small tracks (80%) for a reason. I watch my son race and as a parent I can tell you although I know it is not always true I still feel much safer when we race on the Bull-Rings we go to. The action is much more intense and the chance to bend things is greater but I have never totaled a car on a short track. We count 2 cars totaled at Lawrenceburg and 1 car totaled at North Vernon. All of those wrecks scared me to death. I know racing is dangerous. But like most Dummies I do it any how>>> I tend to also get much more excited watching the racing on a small track and at the same time I also feel much more comfortable watching these races taking place at slower speed.

I know that if you went to Bull-Rings all the time the older racers might require on-board oxygen to make a twenty lap main. We raced 30 laps at DuQuoin and Doug said thank God they had so many cautions so he could get his wind back.

Mark says he like getting his elbows up on them big tracks and It is kinda of neat when your eye balls start rattling up around at 100 miles per hour, and a Mini- Lightning Sprint is very capable of 100+ miles per hour with wing on a 3/8 th or larger track. But the same mistake that will bend an axle at 60 MPH on a Bull-Ring will Total a car at 100 MPH.

In my opinion we just don't need this kinda of speed to have a fun venue to race in. Besides that the fire breathing Hot Rod Built Kaw's of mine (read as built out of 3 different motors with a prayer thrown in for good measure) don't last long on them big fast race tracks. If I wanted to go that fast I would race a Full Midget with PowerI. But then Come to think of it they race mostly on little tracks, so I guess I would have to get a 410 Sprint and bring my own Ambulance to the races with me just to handle my heart condition that I know would develop from that kind of racing.

I guess when it all comes down to the real bottom line >>the answer is>> it is not really about "MONEY" it is all about having "FUN" and doing something you love to do as a family. In 20+ years of racing I have never had a profitable season. But I have had some great advertising dollars spent in a way that I know have made money for my business. Race fans really do patronize racers business's, and that is a fact.

Honest Dad himself