Originally Posted by Daddyz:
Wow. That escalated quickly. I thought I was going to have to wait mid-season at least before the fan needed a good hosing off
Here I am, waiting for my driver to get back from college for the 2017 racing season, trying to decide whether I should build a D2, go back to micro racing, or maybe something else entirely (410's maybe?) and honestly I'm not even positive they'll be a D2 series around by then.
Maybe I should hold off on that trip to the salvage yard.
IS THIS WHAT EVERYONE WANTS!!!!
Racers to hold off because of what they read...I don't speak for every series on here but I am the sole founder of the name D-2 and the basic rules as far as bringing Lightning sprints and automotive engines together to race since 2010. Some started a few years later...Vern with Illini had a GREAT set of rules for 25 years and a damn good formula but did not allow the mini (Lightning) sprints to race with them, ours and a few others allowed Mini Sprints to run.
Here is the thing we all had the basic rules in place 80% the same but all of us had the same vision "more affordable midget racing"! In November of 2014 I reached out to KB of POWRi and we spoke of lower division of racing and told him what we where doing along with others around the nation and he liked the idea. We both understood that this was NOT an effort to REPLACE our big brother National Midgets but was a grass roots racing of allowing the less fortunate to go race midgets a an affordable price so the name "DIVISION II" was a good fit for what we all was doing.
KB wanted to help with bringing "US" together so he had a meeting at his facility in Oct. of 2015 to help hammer out a set of "National D-2" rules, and we did...Did I like everything we agreed on..NO...but at the end of the day WE (all) did agree.
So 2016 is the Inaugural year for NATIONAL D-2 rules. Will mistakes be made? You bet your asses it will...will some get their feelings hurt?...count on it....CAN we ALL learn from it and GROW as a NEW group of racers and be true to what D-2 is? I truly think so and dang well hope so.
In the end...HERE are the rules...they are written for 2016...2017 some might be added...some might be deleted...some might be upgraded.... But even then you will never ever please everyone...
If everyone will just calm down and let the series playout and at the end of 2016 we will know what was good and what was bad. At least for now you have "OPTIONS" Badger 2.4/POWRi D-2/USAC Speed-2/NATIONAL when it comes to midget racing. All this finger pointing and b-itching does no one any good. Look at how long our own beloved Tony Stewart took to come around on something that my have saved his life (Hans Device).
Buy, build, or convert which ever you want or can afford and go race...have fun...enjoy but give the powers to be a chance to work things out. We have (series owners) spent A LOT of time, effort and $$$ for this deal. So if you chose to support us GREAT...if you chose to do something else that's ok. But dam it give it a chance!!!