[ringo18]

One nice thing about the mini sprints is they all have onboard starters. This makes it nice if you live somewhere you can't push start the car easily. Another thing with the 1200 mini sprints is you can go to Ebay or a local junkyard, buy a motor for less than $3000, put it in, and be competitive. You can go to your local motorcycle shop to buy parts. No high dollar rods, pistons, head work, or aftermarket injection. The biggest reason we run a 1200 mini sprint is that both clubs have some great people to help you get started and work with you through the year. It's like UMRA use to be many many years ago.

[TQ29m]

Ringo, I got the same deal with my TQ, course I'm not running a Honda, I'm running a 600 Yamaha, and it is very competitive, and a whole bunch cheaper, like you say, all stock parts, off Ebay, only thing I had to buy new, was rod bolts, at $3.00 each. I don't have the clutch and transmission, but I can light er up on jackstands, and ck things out. I had to do something, even tho I never had any trouble with rods, $13-1600.00 bucks for 4, is rediculas. And Amen, on the last part! Bob

[Ovalmeister]

Originally Posted by ringo18 One nice thing about the mini sprints is they all have onboard starters. This makes it nice if you live somewhere you can't push start the car easily. Another thing with the 1200 mini sprints is you can go to Ebay or a local junkyard, buy a motor for less than $3000, put it in, and be competitive. You can go to your local motorcycle shop to buy parts. No high dollar rods, pistons, head work, or aftermarket injection. The biggest reason we run a 1200 mini sprint is that both clubs have some great people to help you get started and work with you through the year. It's like UMRA use to be many many years ago.

ringo18 is absolutely correct. sprintr31, you can run a 1200cc mini sprint for 5 years and spend the same as 1 year in a midget. Need proof? Look at these prices....

http://www.minisprintracing.com/classified.htm

And, if you visit family somewhere else in the states, you can take your car with you! A complete list of clubs is on the left side.....

http://www.minisprintracing.com/

Enjoy and good luck with whatever you do! Remember, fun is the objective.
David. :thumb

[767]

issue with a 1200 mini sprint, lack of car count. i have not been to any of there home tracks, but every time i see them at a sprint car event it seems like they about 12-14 cars. Lowest car count I have seen at a TQ dirt race was 28. They travel very well. So it has to be a cheap series.

[slide22]

Originally Posted by 767 issue with a 1200 mini sprint, lack of car count. i have not been to any of there home tracks, but every time i see them at a sprint car event it seems like they about 12-14 cars. Lowest car count I have seen at a TQ dirt race was 28. They travel very well. So it has to be a cheap series.

where were you this year? last race at Lawrenceburg with the MSCS the AMSA had 35 cars

[Sandy Lowe]

The AMSA mini sprints had 9 races last year at Lawrenceburg with an average car count of 25.44. Their lowest car count at the Burg was 16 on the opening night of Sprint Week (a Wednesday night). Their car counts were 21-33-16-27-18-22-33-24-35.

[micro94]

Originally Posted by Dwayne Schuerenburg and Windom both stepped up to Sprinters from the 600 Micro Sprints. The least expensive, most competitive, and best training ground in Indiana right now

I came from go karts wanting to move up myself.I will say even though the 600 micros dont race on pavement hardly at all this is the series I went to.You WILL learn how to drive side by side.Not saying you dont now but you will see its a whole different ballgame.The micro is the best thing I ever did.Dirt and pavement are of course completely different but the dirt is the way to learn.We personally ran the open non-wing class with a stock motor and was very competitive.Bought my motor for $4200 and was racing at the front with $10000 motors.Dirt is fun to try and figure out.And just my own opinion,if you can race side by side on dirt for 25 laps without hitting anything than you should be fine on pavement.By the way.Where did you race go karts?

[Bill May]

767, could you have mistaken the 600cc class with the low car counts?
The MMSA made two appearances at tracks with sprints at the top of the card last season, 26 cars at Twin Cities with the non wing sprints and we took 24 cars to Waynesfield with the 360 winged sprints on the card. The mini sprint drivers like being on the same ticket with the full size sprints, I suspect you will see very good
support car counts again this season.

[Larryoracing]

Ford Focus Midgets is probably the best race car you can buy.

1) It races on many tracks where you can learn to drive on a track other
than your home track. Sometimes too many people get use to one track and
deter from thier ability to be able to race at any track and know how to set up
their race car.

2) Low car counts can be a plus, allowing you to make the main event and get
all those valuable track laps and experience.

3) I don't know how much money FF Midget Races pay throughout the country
but thier are still races that pay 450 dollars to win on the dirt.

4) Most people buy a FF Midget then sell the motor after they had their fun
and then buy a full midget motor and install it in thier FF Midget Chassis and go racing again in a full midget.

5) They have their own starters and don't require much fuel to go racing. About
7 gallons max per evening. You could race one of these cars with no crew.

6) The tires are relatively in-expensive on dirt and can last up to 6 races.
I think the RR is about 125 dollars.

7) The FF midget will give you the experience of driving upright in a race car
as compared to the many other minisprint organizations which you lie down
in the car like a go cart.

a) I like that idea which would be similar to a 360 non-wing sprint, 410,
TQ or Full Midget.

b) I also like that the motor is longitudinal in the chassis and not transverse,
operated by a chain.

8) If you are a beginner and can whoop the 10-15 people that show up,
you will probably do the same in a midget or sprint car. But it you can't
even beat the people in the FF Midget, you have no chance when money
determines the winners of many full midget and sprint car divisions.

a) It could be a cheap way to determine if you have any skills at all or
any future in a midget, TQ or sprint car.

9) I cannot think of any other division where you will be able to race at so
many places, gather so much knowledge and experience that will be
directly transferrable to a TQ, Full Midget, or Sprint car at a really
affordable price. And you have the USAC name that goes a long way
in crediability no matter how many people tell you otherwise.

Sincerely,

Larry Otani... never had so much fun as Winning in the USAC FF Midget
dirt racing series.

[LocalYokel]

In the event that someone is actually thinking of getting into Focus racing, you need to realize that a Focus chassis isn't the same as a full midget chassis. Construction is the same, however some measurements are specific to each division (motor set back, ect)...