Originally Posted by ThrowbackRacingTeam:
Thanks Mr. Gardner. Midget week does look consistent and that's good. But, there are so many others that are hurting and Mr. Miller seems to be oblivious. Belleville and anything on half miles, all pavement races, everything at Sun Prairie, sprint cars at Terre Haute and all other half miles, sprints everywhere besides the Indiana quarters and Silver Crown at every race. That's a lot for me to accept that everything is fine. If only having 23 sprinters at the Hulman Classic doesn't raise a red flag, I don't know what will. They don't run midgets there anymore because of the engines. The day they have to stop running the sprints there would be very devastating for people like me that love the half miles so much. I sure hope things turn around somehow.
Funny thing. We went there (THAT) for years with sprints and midgets and never gave it a thought because THAT'S WHERE THE RACE WAS. If Kenny doesn't want to take his stuff there because he feels it's not safe, I can respect that. But this "it's too hard on the motors" crap just burns my ass. If you didn't feel the need to wind it 10,000 metaphorical RPMs then maybe it wouldn't be as hard on the motors. "But everybody else is doing it, so we have to do it to compete". Fine, here's how you fix it. Everybody gets an ECU or spark box, or however you want to control it, from USAC and it's chipped so you can't turn over 8K before it starts cutting cylinders two at a time. You wanna turn 10K? Fine, enjoy it with your 4 cylinder. Turn it in at the end of the night. Go somewhere else, run your own.