Originally Posted by Jonr:
Why? I think that midget racing on pavement is like midget racing on big tracks. A thing of the past. Lets enjoy the rebirth of midget racing on dirt. Lets enjoy having national and D2 midget groups. Lets not try to recreate the past that we will never get.
Sounds like 2015-16 when there were people who didn't think the Badger deal would work.
Originally Posted by nodoors:
Affordable and racing? Those 2 words don't go together when taking about racing. MONEY always wins the race. Dirt Cars are dirt cars Pavement cars are pavement cars. ARDC ran both for many years and you couldn't change cars the same car had to be used. With that said it was a disaster all the times they drove pavement.
The chassis for dirt cars are not conducive to pavement and it makes for VERY BAD RACING. A lot of accidents and flips which again equates to money and not Affordable
I have an Ellis dirt midget that won alot of races against some of the top beast pavement cars in the country, so a dirt can can be fast and win on pavement....
Originally Posted by treecitytornado:
If I'm reading the Rules correctly, you can only run a 71" or 72" wheelbase car.
Not exactly. The rule is stating that you must be at least 71" wheelbase and no more than 72". So you can be 71 1/4", 71 1/2" or whatever as long as you are no less than 71" and no more than 72". I find it ridiculous that Midget racing has a 10" difference from the min to the max wheelbase (most groups say 66" to 76" which is nuts).
Originally Posted by jdull99:
This was "affordable midget racing" before it was "cool" (& long before theoretical threads were started on the internet)...
The 2020 schedule is out (10 races - South Bend, Grundy, Rockford - all pavement)
...they are on a race tire these days...most cars are 2.4L...I imagine some of the cars ran dirt before...
First the Illini Series is getting 6 cars on their best day. Second, the Illini Series has always wanted to have a different rule book for each competitor. Once you go faster than their favorite car they go out of their way to write a new rule (weight, restrictors, offsets, etc etc) intended entirely to penalize a guy for winning. And they do it race to race. That's not racing in my opinion. If you want to beat a guy beat him on the track not with the rule book. If you want to change rules do it during the offseason and apply them equally to everyone.
Originally Posted by jdull99:
This was "affordable midget racing" before it was "cool" (& long before theoretical threads were started on the internet)...
Originally Posted by captrat:
Nodoors trolling again or just being a contrarian purely for its own sake. On earlier post saw almost no problem changing wing to non-wing.
Listen Bud Dirt Midget Chassis wer made to transfer weight to the Right Rear, Pavement Chassis are made to transfer weight to the Left Front. Don't give me this Horseshit that you even can contemplate what I am saying My god you are a real Winner and not in a good way
Originally Posted by Jonr:
Why? I think that midget racing on pavement is like midget racing on big tracks. A thing of the past. Lets enjoy the rebirth of midget racing on dirt. Lets enjoy having national and D2 midget groups. Lets not try to recreate the past that we will never get.
If people want to run Midgets on pavement, more power to them, but it doesn't really interest me....
