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I personally think sim racing is great for real life racing for multiple reasons... For one it gets young fans involved and gives them an interest in dirt racing. It gives them an opportunity for a very cheap price to race against real drivers (Kyle Larson, Chris Bell, Rico Abreu, Jay Drake, Kevin Swindell, and many more), on real tracks, and win real money. It lets real life drivers a chance to practice, race in the off-season, interact with fans, see tracks they have never been to, and much more. It gives people who maybe want to give racing a shot but don't have the funding to or do not want to take the chance to get hurt an opportunity to run wheel to wheel with their favorite driver or the next up and comer. When we can get young fans wanting to go meet the people they race with online at there local race track or go see what midget or sprint car racing is all about and it gets them in the stands then I am all for it! Last nights "Sim" Chili Bowl drew a lot of interest Tony Stewart, Kyle Larson, Bryan Clauson, Chris Windom, Keith Kunz, SPEED SPORT, and many many more were watching and many were tweeting about it. I know at one point it had over 400 viewers which is considered a good night I have heard for real life dirt streams.
First off I agree with others that this race shouldn't be advertised as a "midget" race because they are definitely not the same type of "midget" that raced there a few weeks ago. I have driven the 1000cc mini sprint and a midget this past year and they are two totally different animals for sure. I have nothing against the mini-sprint/lightning sprint I am actually running one at Duquoin next weekend and looking forward to it and think the cars are very fun and racy. But to say these cars would compete for wins together in my opinion wouldn't happen, I could be wrong, I do not know. I think each are great classes but are two totally separate things and should stay two totally separate things.
-Chase Briscoe
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