They ran off 91 races Thursday the First of January over at Tulsa. I watched a few of them, any place I came in they were good. Of course the races I payed most attention to were the 1200cc Mini Sprints. Those guys from Oklahoma are kind of behind the times don't you know (They really don't know that we are "Lightning Fast", and not a Mini any more). Several things stuck out in my opinion. The first thing was>>>Boys it still looks like easy pickens over their to me, it is sure a shame we could't get a few MMSA hot shoes out their to add a little competition to their races.
The 1200cc cars or as they called them the "Big Cars" ran the last 4 races of the night. They said that they liked the sound of them big old motors over the high pitched 600cc motors. I guess after 90 races any change would be good. Rod Henning looked real good in his race, and is on my short win list. Casey Shuman drove one of the better races of the night once again proving there is something that goes into winning other than motor and chassis. I am not for sure but I think he just might be racing with "Traction Control", too bad they can't take it away from him because it was something his daddy gave him a long long time ago. Frank Flud also looked very good and once again proves we need to keep these pros from racing our cars because they will cause all the back markers to go out and spend tons of money on engines trying to keep up with them. The last driver that looked really promising to me was Andy Baugh from Illinois, passing a lot of cars on his race to the front, he just ran out of laps. One of these 4 guys will probably be taking home one of them Drillers Saturday night.
I also saw a few Kenyon Midgets racing with us, doing a pretty good job, kind of took me off guard when watching them race and seeing the motor long ways in the chassis. The darned cameraman wouldn't stay on one car long enough for me to clock any decent consistent lap times, but to me looks like the EchoTec-Focus cars and us are turning pretty consistent times also about 12.5 to 13 second laps. I bet a Kenyon with a 200HP late model motor would also be something to contend with also.
DuQuoin should be very very interesting!!
Honest Dad himself
