[Wayne Davis]

A follow up on the May 10th Story

May 18 News release:

As of June 1 2018, the Lucas Oil Southern States D-2 Midgets Series will allow the stock "built" engines BADGER/POWRi ( rules: www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=428805 pg. 17) along with the older "NATIONAL" type single overhead cam, push rod engines (Gearte, Fontana, Esslinger, Mopar) to race the remaining of the year on a trial bases for the rest of 2018. This type of configuration must weight 1250 lbs. after race with driver. We feel this will allow the heavier drivers and older cars that compete to become more competitive and ones that are thinking they might be too heavy for a midget can now be competitive so we will close the gap with the added horsepower. The other reason for this is I have been looking at a LOT of classified adds to replace my chassis and was over whelmed with how many of these older national engines are out there for a reasonable cost...most cheaper than a new "BUILT" stock block.

This rule is STRICTLY for the Lucas Oil Southern States Midgets Series and I do not expect the other D-2 series to follow suit. I would hope they take a look at it and see if this will help with their car counts also. I have been weighting on this for a while and for us I think it is the best possible way for our car counts to growth and keep the older midget engines alive.

We are by NO means going to abandon our D-2 stock engines and rules we now have and have been in place for several years that weight 1100 lbs. I have had way too many older and bigger racers that want to race an affordable midget but feel they would not be competitive when they would be out weighted close to 100-150 lbs more with the same engine. This will allow some that already have the "OLDER" engines a place to race with out spending several thousands of dollars for a stock block type engine

***(We will only allow a maxim 30lbs of ballast to be added )*** All ballast must be painted white with your # clearly marked.

D-2 was established FOR the average working fellow, and we want to try an include ALL/AS MANY working type of people whether they are slim or heavy. Thank you all and remember to PLEASE support your local racetrack wherever that maybe.