Originally Posted by curbservice:
this is just for fun, and to see what other fans think about this. Is there any intrest in 305 sprints winged or not here in Indiana? These cars are prety popular in northern Ohio, and they put on a good show to boot. My thoughts are steel block 305's with steel heads, wetsump oil system, carburators on cast ironintakes, hydrolic lifters, roller rockers allowed. Wheels must be steel, steel bodied shocks, no adjustable shocks allowed, and no cockpit adjustable weight jackers. Cars must burn pump gas 93 octain or lower ( no need for race gas if yer runing all steel parts). All steel break rotors, driveshaft and yolk assembally. No lightweight rear ends. Just something I thought of for fun.
To answer your question "is there any interest in 305 sprints winged or not here in Indiana"? I would find it difficult that any track is looking to add another sprint car series to their schedule. Most of the dirt tracks in Indiana that run sprint cars are in Central & Southern Indiana. Trying to draw cars from Northern Ohio would be difficult at best.
Attica & Fremont already take up Friday and Saturday nights so that would pretty much leave out most of the dirt sprint car tracks in Indiana. Most promoters are already running at least 3 different classes and from a fans stand point, I don't want to see 4 or more classes. I doubt that any track is looking to drop a current class to add 305 sprint cars to their regular show.
In this economy, most promoters are looking to keep their most successful shows and eliminate the losers. Trying something like this is all new and in my opinion, the risks outweigh the benefits.
A few questions for you. What tracks would you like to see run 305's in Indiana? Do you feel that another class at one of these tracks would be a benefit? Where would the cars for a 305 class come from? What type of purse would it take to bring enough cars for this to successful?
