If I am not mistaken, there were more midgets at Kokomo last night than at Belleville,Eldora, and The Gold Crown.Could it be that outside of the Chili Bowl the most midgets on hand at an event this season.Strange, but very good. Any ideas.

Three weeks ago at Little Belleville there were 47 midgets , I'm not real sure but think there was in the 40ish range at the spring indoor race at DuQuion race, We"ll have to wait a couple more weeks and see how many show up at Wayne City which last year had I believe 57. So are you talking about a just USAC show or a PowrI show or a combined show?

To put this theory to rest, here are the car counts for each and every USAC National Midget race in 2016.

2016 USAC NATIONAL MIDGET CAR COUNTS

3/19/2016: Du Quoin – 54 midgets

5/31/2016: Montpelier – 45 midgets

6/1/2016: Gas City – 45 midgets

6/2/2016: Putnamville – 43 midgets

6/3/2016: Bloomington – 40 midgets

6/5/2016: Kokomo – 33 midgets

6/17/2016: West Memphis – 17 midgets

6/18/2016: West Memphis – 17 midgets

8/2/2016: Jefferson County – 33 midgets

8/3/2016: Solomon Valley – 32 midgets

8/5/2016: Belleville Nationals – 33 midgets

8/6/2016: Belleville Nationals – 31 midgets

8/16/2016: Lanco – 26 midgets

9/24/2016: Eldora – 25 midgets

10/6/2016: Granite City – 25 midgets

10/7/2016: Granite City – 21 midgets

10/8/2016: Granite City – 22 midgets

Looks like a combination of attrition and distance from Indianapolis

Off the National Midget Driver of the Year website we also keep this running total in our free weekly e-newsletter:


2016 Car Count
outdoor events only:
under 12 cars: 34
12-19 cars: 56
20-32 cars: 49
33-49 cars: 12
50 plus cars: 2
Average: 18.9

2016 Feature Wins
16 wins: Thorson
7 wins: Rauch, Seidelman, Kreisel
6 wins: Smith.
5 wins: B. Bright, A. Bright, Clauson, Schutte,
R. Gardner, C. Nichols.
4 wins: Shebester, Abreu, D. Ray.
3 wins: Daum, Boat, Macedo, Sherrell, Bayston, Brown.