I'm with this guy.... My 410's aren't cheap to keep happy, I'd love to see an economical break and some innovation. There are plenty of snobby rich kids in the pits who are quick to spout off "this is sprint car racing", but most of them don't pay the bills. All of sprint car racing could study the rise and fall of pavement winged sprints up in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan etc. Costs got out of control for a local/regional deal, wanna-be big timer egos never got checked; poof a 10 car field is common.

Say what you want about tire costs being the killer but I'm saving a TON of money putting together two dirt wingless 410 cars for this year over the winged stuff. I'm going from my GB2000 being "ok" and making it 12-15 nights to that GB2000 being a once in a while engine and my -12 being my weekly piece and it'll go a certain 30 nights without any bad luck.

Imagine how much better sprint and midget racing could be if we reeled in the engine costs, I'm all for an innovative sealed/crate option. 500hp isn't going to set the standard in usac or anything but there are certainly options to talk about, roll that train and when a good option comes along I'll jump right on the crate bandwagon.