Crankin


Thank You for the kind words. D2 seems to be the hot topic. Everyone involved in these discussions on IOW and I guess elsewhere I would think wants the D2 idea to work. You ask why? and I would say because each person loves Midget racing in it's pure form. As in any racing class from Go Karts to Formula I Money and the spending of it on performance always seems to take center stage. Each of us have an idea of how best to do it. The answer is somewhere in the middle. I guess this is my reason for liking the idea of having a Benevolent Dictator to take charge. A good example would be Harold Hunter at Montpelier. I don't agree with all oh his ideas, but I know he made them in the hope of making his class work and so far he has pulled it off, and the success of his class has a direct outcome on his bottom line. I have seen other organizers make rules to favor certain people or groups without regard for the average racer and this I do not accept.

The Badger guys have a reason for their more generous rule package. Their primary race track is a fast Horsepower track and lower Horsepower cars do not put on much of a show on these types of race tracks. Thus they are looking for more power by adding cams>valve springs, valves high compression pistons and after market rods. They achieved their most power with the addition of the high compression pistons. Those cams, valves, valve springs and rods did not do much for their bottom line. BUT they felt it very necessary to get the best performance out of their cars. To get the potential out of those cams and valves porting will be required and then watch costs sky rocket. The motorcycle manufactures have just came out with a new generation of motor that have about eclipsed the performance available with a naturally aspirated engine. They had better hope that a racer does not show up with a new Kawasaki motor bolted in a race car. These motors have become very expensive and require a lot of extra stuff to put into a car to race. In the past Mini Sprint racers never even thought about repairing their blown motors. Those parts were just plain too expensive, they just went out and bought another motor. The same should hold true with D2 Midgets. They must stay current with whatever the auto makers are producing. That means that while 2.4 motors should be allowed all of a sudden they are going to have to recognize 2.0 supercharged motors as well. Hopefully the gene pool will keep getting better until electrics takes over. Then I guess Punt. Ask Casey Shuman, I think he drove an electric Midget a few years ago.

It should be interesting to see how well the basic stock D2 Midget runs with Badger Midget. If D2 Midget is to grow there needs to be an attempt to keep the motors basically stock. Maybe we can sell the racers some pipe hones and other do dads to keep them interested. I know Money always seems to take over racing but the winners will always be the guys with experience and know how driving a specific cars with specific built engines that all the back markers are paying big bucks to try and buy to beat them guys out in front. The best way to sell a race car, engine or even dodad part is to give it to a winning team and have them use it. Hopefully the new racer will stay in long enough they will be racing them guys up front, but it wont be because of the motors that they bought.

Honest Dad himself