LarryO, a reasonable weight rule could work, car and driver, but we were at Twin Cities Sat night, and there were 49 "Hornets" in the pits, and they bring as many as a dozen pit passes with them, it's like it was 8-10 years ago, when Pinto's were plentyful, they are affordable, and everyone can drive one, the promoters love them, we were one of either 7 or 8 divisions, there were probably close to 130 cars in the pits, got started late because they had missed the rain, ran every last one of those cars, and were outa there by 10:30. I heard someone on TV the other day, saying they felt the quality of racing was better, overall, people and promoters were still finding money and sponsors, than it had been in the not to distant past, people become more inventive, when times are hard, and as long as they can get some return on their money, they will race. I hate to see an organization come out with a rule book, written by a Philadelphia lawyer, and try to promote racing, keep it simple, put in rules that CAN BE INFORCED, and give the racers a chance to work within those rules. This country was built, by people that could build things, and that worked, how many old junk cars, were pulled from junk yards, and turned into race cars, not like todays state of the art Sprints and Midgets, but we have the resources yet, to do that, I hate spec tires, it limits your ability to run what you have available, I believe I read in the book about Smokey, he found some tires in a junk yard he liked, and he scrounged till he found 4 of them, and won a big race, because he only pitted for fuel, ran those same tires the entire race. This can go on and on, but someone, who is not concerned with his own personal feelings, will come up with a workable plan, and it'll be the Polish remedy for it all. Bob

Come on ,your trying to tell me some hornet class guy bought a 'dozen 'people at $35 a pop with him.......back gate moneys great but other than family Who comes to watch 'hornets'...open tire rules are fine but at a local track we run open tires ,guess what the rich guy winning runs new sc/gummy bears with his 890hp shaver,the rest of us run dt3 hand me downs from USAC...guess who won three races in a row..there is a balance we need to race -but I don't think junk yard classes and dumpster diving for tires is where were at...as far as a 'workable plan' goes ,so far the powers that be don't appear to have a clue ..the savior ,after almost 2 yrs. ,is asking for ideas,cause he didn't bring any

Nope, it was $25.00, and they all paid their own way! I think if you'll ask Mason, he'll tell you they average about 5 pit passes per car, at least that's what he figures on. I never look in the stands, too busy, but my wife does, and she tells me how many or how few there are, and I didn't say we should go dumpster diving for parts, but there are sources other than always buying new, I've been racing something, since about 1953, and I have a good idea of what it costs to do it, doesn't matter what, Hornet, Cruiser, Go-kart, midget, jalopy, sprint car, even boats, and there are 2 things I won't do, jump out of a perfectly good airplane, or run a spec tire! Bob

Ok,5 pit passes /hornet.....sorry you feel that way about spec tires ,,I ran IMCA nonwing sprint with a Mcquery brick in the mid '90,had a home built 355 [$3000] and competed well,when the promoter changed to a better [stickyer tire ]motors/hp when up -cost went up, $15000 motors what you needed...I just think you can reverse the trend on the upper end sprint car racing..BTW I'm a pilot and skydive go figure...makes no sense

I wasn't kidding, on the 12 people who paid pit passes to watch this guys wife drive, and 5 pit passes per car, any division, is what Mason figures on, and it usually works out for him, I guess I still prefer to do my own thing, my way, and we do quite well, I feel, and we sure don't break the bank doing it, and it is so sweet, when you can spank someone's butt, that does, I do my own work, build my own motors, chassis, most of the add on parts, I have my own machine shop, so it's not a per hr thing, and I tow with an F350 PSD, with just shy of 400k on the ticker, trailer is newer than anything else. I used to "spot", for some divers, had one get tangled in his main, upside down, he finally got it off, and got the reserve out, but he was damn near close enough to kiss, when it opened, I watch from away now, far, far away! Bob

Gotcha ,the mother in law deal can get 20-30 pit passes ,especially if you leave the fuel cap loose and turn the straight pipe up towards it...if the shoot doesn't open their refferd to as 'bouncers' not 'divers'

Budget racing, particularly with sprint cars is a subject near and dear to me. That's one reason I am so excited about the Racesaver series rules and the Sprint Series of Texas that runs in this area. Is this a good place to talk about them or should I start a new thread?

:2:What would happen if you had a sprint car event that cost 1000 dollars to enter. You could bring anything you wanted. Let says you got 50 takers and I will let you decide how much goes to first, second, etc.

Somehow I think this would be a very interesting race. Make it a 50 lappers.

Larry "O"

Personally I am opposed to racers paying their own purse and that's what I think that would be.

Yep, that is probably the right answer. The only reason I brought it up was once I was into "Cutting" horses a little bit. At least as someone learning the ropes. Once a year they had a big show at the Cow Palace. The best riders in the country and of course they came in the big trucks, just like sprint cars. And yes they were all great riders, but I would like to think if you had a good horse and were a good rider you could win. Entrant fee was 4500 dollars.
And that is how they got the 125,,000 first place, etc, etc, etc. Of course they didn't really care about the money that much. It's nice....lol! What they really wanted was to win, and if they could win the three biggest events in the year through out the states, it was called the Triple Crown. Very few people ever one all three events, but that was the objective.

Sincerely,

Larry "O"