Terry Goff has helped me out tremendously the past few years since I started, both during the week and at the track and its been greatly appreciated. Makes it alot easier and less frustrating when you have someone with alot of experience willing to help. What I am getting to is some people might just get wrong impressions sometimes of people til you get to know them. Also ran wheel to wheel with him many times and never touched:checkered:

Good point Slide22! However, In your case with mini sprints wasn't the 2nd organization created to help or give guys a 2nd option to run without direct competition or excluding a certian team from compitetion? That seems to me what has caused such a huge uproar!! People can form their own opinion on almost everything these days and with the internet and email can broadcast it the world in just a few clicks. It's been stated that both clubs have been bashing each other which is not completely true. If memory serves me when the MTQRL first announced they were starting a new club there reasoning was the UMRA would not throw out the GOFFS and they insisted the terrible crashed was intentional! At that point they questioned the integrity of several individuals. To come out and make a BOLD statement like that as there coming out party or invitation doesn't sound like a club that is truely out to promote TQ racing. They have stuck to there cause "to promote TQ racing". The whole problem is with them attacking people's integrity and banning a team or any car that is green drew battle lines for a large majority of people myself included! If there honest goal was to promote TQ racing and grow the sport they should have gotten there spokesperson sooner or would not have angered so many people with there statements to begin with. Im sure there are teams out there that would never run with the UMRA again (thats to bad) and I'm sure there are guys the will not run with the MTQRL (thats also to bad). I've been told that the MTQRL was contacted and no return call was given. I would hope that is false. If you were truely out to promote TQ racing and grow the sport wouldn't you want the advice from a successfull club and try to include all of the TQ owners and drivers in the midwest instead of making your opening statements banning certian teams or colors. You might not like certain teams whether its in the UMRA, USAC, IRL or NASCAR but don't discount there hard work. Can you imagine if Jack Roush wanted to start up a new stock car circuit but stated Hendrick would not be allowed in ( I compare the two teams for the impact in their respective organization) NOT SMART!!!! What kind of division would that cause? It just seems to me "the MTQRL was started with destruction in mind not promotion". If I'm wrong make the call and promote TQ racing not MTQRL racing!!!

Michael Koontz #17
To be the best you must beat the best.

Just an observation.....

MTQRL rule book is out.

7.0 Licenses: Any person may become a registered owner/driver of the league upon
payment of the active annual dues and execution of an Agreement of Release

I spoke to the folks at the MTQRL booth at the expo and they seem to be on the up and up to me, not to mention excited to go racing. I also spoke with Bobby Walton at the expo and he seemed very positive about the UMRA's future. I must admit I am anxious to see where the UMRA has some races scheduled. When I first started to race with the UMRA I always liked the big tracks. But as I got more experience I preferred the small fairground tracks. Now that I have had the chance to sit in the stands and watch the TQ's run on several occasions I feel they put on a much better show at the small fairgound tracks. Therefore after looking at the MTQRL schedule I think it is great to see a place like Madison get some TQ action again. I would hope to see the UMRA try to do the same with getting back to some of the fairground stuff.

So for the guys that are going to run the MTQRL I say go for it. From what I can tell Mr. Frechette seems like a good guy and a positive for TQ racing in Indiana. I know when I ran I always loved to have more opportunities to race (that is why I was always on Mason Fleetwood at Salem to do more non-sanctioned stuff). One thing is for sure Mr. and Mrs. Frechette will never get the money out of it that they will have to put in to it, and there is no greater way to grow any kind of racing than that.

For the guys that are going to run with the UMRA. If you truly believe in the UMRA then you must put your trust in the leadership you have selected. Bobby is a good guy and will work hard for you (and we all know he will probably put up with more B.S. than he deserves).

As the old saying goes "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger". I think that holds true for both entities. Either way you will all be participating in the greatest sport on the planet, and have plenty of opportunities to do it, what more could you want?


J.L. Brewer

Wonderful observation Mr. Brewer.
I wish Indiana TQ racing much success.
I have many fond memories of the time period Knoke77 mentioned.
Kerry

Hello Kerry!

How are you and the family doing?

:respect::checkered:Hey, ole RedRacer, I sent your Red Racer to a warmer climate, about a month ago, Dolthan, Al, I believe, is it's new address. Sold it to a feller who's Dad used to race around here a few years back, he's gonna come up, and run some races here this summer, he's got 2 mini-sprints, but prefers the TQ, so it found a loving home. Bob :thumb

one quick question why is the new clubs rule book word for word the umra rule book other than umra is deleted and mtqrl inserted? you would think they could make there own rules.

It's a wonderful thing. Same rules so cars can go to both series and not have to worry about rule changes, etc.... both play by the same rules. Smart move! Don't have to worry about different specs for different series.

Why would the rules be any different? Same cars, same racing. Should the MTQRL run their races going the other direction on the track? :O::rolling