5/17/13 Speednet shows 19 cars for Bloomington non winged. Gas prices 3.89

5/18/12 Speednet shows 23 cars for Bloomington winged. Gas prices $3.75ish

Dont know how many dropped out before speednet picked them up for either. I know in 2011 there were more winged cars and gas was $3.91 a gallon.

There is an error in the Bloomington Speednet results for 5/17/13. There were actually 20 mini sprints as one of the cars did not start Heat 2. The car should have been noted as a DNS so he would show up in the results. I work at Bloomington Speedway and will have them updated at the next race.

Not all mini sprint racers want to run non wing sprintcar after minis, some of us are running winged 360s and/or 410. My self, Sam Ashworth, Ryan Broughton, Hud Horton,Greg Nicholas, Trey Gustin, Max Stambaugh,Devon Dobie,Jared Horstman and the Roberts are winged racing. run both it is good for the sport, but keep the wing, it to me is what makes a minisprint a minisprint.

My preference would be for non-wing, which in our experience evens out the stock motors vs big dollars, even to the point where we have been competitive against full midgets at Montpelier with our internally stock R-1 when the track is slick. However, the opportunity to switch between wing and non-wing at different tracks has helped our learning curve too, so we would support the MMSA in a 50/50 format. In our case, we can always race winged at Waynesfield an hour away from home, but I'm willing to drive 4 hours to Brownstown or Bloomington for a good non-winged alternative. Considering the weather forecast and rain showers across most of Indiana and Ohio last Friday, I don't think you can read much into comparisions to previous years.

Greg/Alex Watson #3E

We where going to bring 3 cars from Florida but the forecast kinda did us in on a 2 day show with all the weather Ind. has been having so that would have made it 23 cars Quantrill....50/50 then "EVERYONE" is happy....uh...no they want!!!....hope to get up there in July when it's the rainy season down here

See here is the problem with making everyone happy! You CANT. When I raced Super Karts USA I had a lot of respect for the Director Jim Murley. He once told me as I was a regional director at the time. You cant be everything for every body! Words to live by IMO

Bill does a great job as with all the people trying to build this sport.

BTW: if any of you winged racers want to come west to Missouri we have a double header weekend plan this weekend. Go to www.midamericalightningsprints.com for details! $1150 to win with tow money!! And a free BBQ for drivers and crew Sunday night!

I don't have a dog in your fight back there on this issue but I will say this..........

I have raced non-winged sprints, midgets and lightning sprints. I enjoyed the **** out of all of them. I also enjoy the sprints and lighting sprints winged. The thing you need to remember is spectator appeal. The wing gives the lightning sprint identity. It also gives it speed. Speed the spectator can usually see. I have raced in groups that combine full midgets and lighting sprints and was rather lucky depending on track size. The ultimate goal I think was to promote midgets using the lightning sprints until they filled their fields with full midgets which was fine.....I was having fun. My point..........promote the class you started with......not another class. There is a midget class. Let them survive on their own. Promote your winged lighting sprint class and make sure it flourishes before you start basically splitting it up. Besides..........due to horsepower differentials......Midgets race completely different that non-winged lightning sprints and put on a much better show. Non-winged lighting sprints don't have the power to look as good as a midget. Remember these words.........."crowd appeal."

Another thing...........DAD is right............get on your head without a wing on a fast track and see if your attitude about winged/non-winged changes somewhat. Wings are cheap compared to entire cars and time off work. Something I unfortunately know more about that I care to. But I still like non-winged racing but there are classes more suited for it in my opinion.