ernart3 (Offline)
#21
1/29/15 2:36 PM
I just wish you wouldn't say you are having midget races at du quoin say it like it is. It's a upright mini or ecotech. There is no such thing as national midgets. Their are midgets and ecotech focus cars and upright minis.
ernart3 (Offline)
#23
1/29/15 4:26 PM
Montpelier runs midgets and allows everyone. You race midgets and only allow ecotechs or mini's. We have raced Montpelier which is a long drive just for track and seat time. I know in your mind you think that the fans can't tell the difference between a ecotech and a midget but I think you are wrong. I'm not saying that ecotechs can't put on as good of a show. I'm just tired of seeing posts about a midget race in Florida or southern illinois just to find out it's not midgets it's mini sprints. Half the damn posts on here are you tooting your own horn about how you can run the same lap times as "national" midgets. Damn that's like the computer racers saying they are faster than Sammy at the chili bowl because they raced online and were fast. I don't know where you finished in the chili bowl this year? And surely you went because you just as fast as Kevin and Sammy.
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Chase Briscoe (Offline)
#27
1/29/15 5:13 PM
I personally think sim racing is great for real life racing for multiple reasons... For one it gets young fans involved and gives them an interest in dirt racing. It gives them an opportunity for a very cheap price to race against real drivers (Kyle Larson, Chris Bell, Rico Abreu, Jay Drake, Kevin Swindell, and many more), on real tracks, and win real money. It lets real life drivers a chance to practice, race in the off-season, interact with fans, see tracks they have never been to, and much more. It gives people who maybe want to give racing a shot but don't have the funding to or do not want to take the chance to get hurt an opportunity to run wheel to wheel with their favorite driver or the next up and comer. When we can get young fans wanting to go meet the people they race with online at there local race track or go see what midget or sprint car racing is all about and it gets them in the stands then I am all for it! Last nights "Sim" Chili Bowl drew a lot of interest Tony Stewart, Kyle Larson, Bryan Clauson, Chris Windom, Keith Kunz, SPEED SPORT, and many many more were watching and many were tweeting about it. I know at one point it had over 400 viewers which is considered a good night I have heard for real life dirt streams.
First off I agree with others that this race shouldn't be advertised as a "midget" race because they are definitely not the same type of "midget" that raced there a few weeks ago. I have driven the 1000cc mini sprint and a midget this past year and they are two totally different animals for sure. I have nothing against the mini-sprint/lightning sprint I am actually running one at Duquoin next weekend and looking forward to it and think the cars are very fun and racy. But to say these cars would compete for wins together in my opinion wouldn't happen, I could be wrong, I do not know. I think each are great classes but are two totally separate things and should stay two totally separate things.
-Chase Briscoe
ernart3 (Offline)
#28
1/29/15 5:14 PM
I have a $15000 midget motor and we run with "national" midgets all the time.
microsprint15 (Offline)
#29
1/29/15 5:22 PM
I have to agree with ernart3 on everything. I made a similar post in the thread about the trophy's.
In the easiest of words, the "Midget" race at DuQuoin is allowing every type of car EXCEPT what is nationally know as an actual Midget.
I don't get it...and I still say the casual "Midget" fan will be pissed when they show up to one of these events and it's actually a Mini Sprint/Focus race.
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