cbaumeyer48 (Offline)
#32
1/26/15 8:55 AM
Ok..... First, lets ease up on the uncle statement..... Mine passed away 2 yrs ago from a heart attack (still rides on the side of my hood, looking down on me from time to time). Good points , yes we are midgets! So how do we name the series? Midwest Division Two Winged Midget Series?? (Too Long) ....Midwest Winged Midget Series?
I agree, as a kid, when we drove up hwy 41 headed to Haubstadt , I got excited to see an open trailer with a car on it at the petro station. But in today's market, just not feasible. You want to get some fans to notice us and come watch the show..... Be the show!.... PR is where it's at! We did 2 car shows (one at Viking Assaults event, one at Shriners fest), I also set up a display at the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival on the day of the Tri State Speedway race. Each event we placed over 100 children and even some adults in the seat of the car while the parents/friends snapped a pic or two. Many of those people asked when and where we raced these cars. Some of those people came and talked to me in the pits after that nites event. If we all get out there and spend a few hours with the public, it's amazing the results!.... But we need to come up with a more simple name for those people to remember us by!!!
jjones752 (Offline)
#33
1/26/15 9:07 AM
I think you nailed it; Midwest Nut Club...
Jim Jones
Midwest Thunder Speed2 Midget #97
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cbaumeyer48 (Offline)
#35
1/26/15 1:09 PM
Jim.... If you've never been to the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival.... Take a few days off the first full week of October!!.... 2nd largest street festival to Mardi Gras.... Been in existence for over 80 yrs!.... Look it up on the net!!
Wayne Davis (Offline)
#38
1/26/15 2:03 PM
Midwest D-2 Winged Midgets or MD2WM....The ONLY reason I call it that is because we are not at a "NATIONAL" level ...YET!!! If all our small groups REGIONAL series could come together and form a NATIONAL group how big could it be....whether you ran with a wing or without we are still a CONVERTED midget that uses different engines.
Look at the #'s...all of us playing second fiddle to the "national" guys when you could have our OWN national style of races....Look what the ASCS has done...9 yes NINE different regions...USCS 7 different regions.
Like it or not like it the D-2 is just like most organizations across the US that are a 2nd tier and that my friends are what we are "AS OF NOW"!!!!!
The word "sportsman or mini" very much labels us as in the minds of most fans. We can be a NATIONAL organization with regional groups if you open your eyes and look DOWN the road and not just right now.
We can have a "NATIONAL" race in the different regions that would count toward a "NATIONAL" Champion. Winged or Non-winged we can all be the same...We Are The Same...
Each and every club or series would still be THEIR series but the #'s would grow so we can get Corporate America to look at us if we were 300 strong as a groups instead of 8-10 individual groups 25-30 strong.
We are doing this right by discussion it here on IOW and elsewhere...might not happen this year or even next year but if we continue separations we will still be tasting scrapes.
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jjones752 (Offline)
#40
1/26/15 3:25 PM
Y'know, there are all kinds of Sprint Car groups out there; USAC, WOO, ASCS, MSCS, Must See, RaceSaver, and on and on. Wing, non-wing, 410, 360, 305, yadayadayada. I think Pappy Weld even built one with a transverse-mounted engine (I'm not going to call it a "Sidewinder, that'll go down a whole other rabbit trail). Was it chain-drive? Hmmm.
My point is, they are all Sprint Cars, because they share things in common; wheelbase, tread width, wheel size, construction practices.
using this logic I submit that a tube-framed, open wheel race car with a 60's to 70's inch wheelbase, 65 inch track on 13 inch wheels is a Midget. There may be other qualifiers needed to differentiate specific groups. But it's not a bad time to draw a line in the clay. Let the 10-inch wheeled sidewinders have Mini Sprint if they want it; we won't be needing it anymore...
Jim Jones
Midwest Thunder Speed2 Midget #97
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