Originally Posted by cbaumeyer48:
Dad.... Ok, so we have a product ...it's a midget chassis, a chain drive 1000 cc engine....... Please keep in mind, when someone wants to market a product it needs to stand out, sound professional, it should have its own identity, the name should have some strength to it (sound is everything)....... What do you think we should be called??
Chris
I thought we were talking about a football game?
Lets see, you said we need a name that stands out>>>sounds professional>>>has its own identity. The name should also have strength to it because (sound is everything). I am going to have to look up that article I read written by that Canadian guy that argued this same point for the first time 10 years ago. He must have been your uncle because his reasoning sounds strangely familiar to yours. He hated "mini", too self deprecating, Maybe he was right there but don't argue that point with a "Mini Cooper" owner.
Using all of your criteria the best name I can come up with is "Midget".
The most important thing about a name is it should be accurate and concise. The names "lightning">"mini"> and "sprint" are way off base. If we were to race on the same program with Midgets also and something broke on a guys Midget the Midget owner would probably also be asking us if we had the needed part. Sprint car owners would not bother with asking us for help because they know we are not similar.
A fellow racer, Jim Jones hauls to the race track on an open trailer. The open trailer is the vehicle of choice if we are wanting to present ourselves to the general public. They bring about questions from the public and responses from the racer. He jokingly says most questions go like this, Hey!! where do you guys ride on them sand rail or jitney or any thing but a race car. Then he patiently explains to them what the vehicle really is and what he does in it and where he does what he does in it. I think for this PR work and advertising the promoter should at least give him a $5.00 break on his entry fee.
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When this Canadian guy wrote his article I kind of shrugged it off because he was also pushing 750cc motors. I was secure with "mini sprint" as a name. Well a few people drank his "Kool Aid" and took up the crusade to change the identity of our race cars. After taking up the cause and defense of "mini sprint" I came to a startling realization. We are racing "MIDGETS" plain and simple. "Mini" did not need defending and "lightning" was a very poor adjective and non descriptive term used to describe a type of race car we definitely were not racing.
If you like wings and we do, the name would be "Winged Midget". The guys on the east coast have been using this type of race car for years. The claim that "Lightning Sprint" is the perfect name for the 1000cc motorcycle powered Midget race cars that we happen to race is simply not the truth and if any racer would spend just 30 seconds to think about it, it would not make sense to them also.
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