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Everyone knows that Fairbury American Legion Speedway is one of, if not the best weekly dirt late model track in the country. That could be up for debate from a few other tracks but basically FALS is regarded as no less than one of the best. Kokomo, IN is just as highly regarded as a wingless sprint car and midget track.
In light of the recent announcement of the merger of POWRi midget series and Casey Shuman's WAR (Wingless Auto Racing) 410 wingless sprint series, hypothetically speaking, would the hard core loyal Fairbury fans and the hard core loyal Kokomo Speedway fans support a home and home type schedule? Let's throw in the UMP modified's, too. In other words, if there was a way to get a two event series involving some of the best regional UMP dirt late model cars and drivers from Fairbury and some of the best regional POWRi midget cars and drivers and some of the best regional WAR wingless sprint cars and drivers and some of the best modified drivers all at the same events at Kokomo and Fairbury would the fans of the respective tracks support it sufficiently?
Fairbury will have the infrastructure in place going into the 2017 racing season to support full on 410 sprinters. Let's say the sprinters and late models paid $6,000.00 to win, the midgets paid $4,000.00 to win and the modified's paid $2,000.00 to win at both Fairbury and Kokomo.
I'd just about wager my lunch money that a show such as these would be strongly supported by the Kokomo fans and considering how good the POWRi midgets were at Fairbury last July the support just might be there from the Fairbury faithful.
Let's throw this deal into the mix. Lets say each track would offer a $25,000.00 bonus to anyone who wins all 4 features at the same event. $10,000.00 to anyone who wins 3 of the 4 features. The odds are long of that happening but it would provide some incentive to see who might try to pull it off.
It would have to be scheduled at a time that wouldn't in any way interfere with Indiana Sprint Week or the Prairie Dirt Classic or the late model Summer Nationals. That would leave a scheduling window of from Memorial Day Weekend to the last week of June or the weekend following the PDC up until the second weekend of August.
Two very good tracks like Fairbury and Kokomo, who know how to run a show and prepare a track, would provide some very good dirt racing entertainment for a broad spectrum of race fan.
Maybe it's not doable but how cool would it be if it was. I can dream, can't I. LOL!!
In light of the recent announcement of the merger of POWRi midget series and Casey Shuman's WAR (Wingless Auto Racing) 410 wingless sprint series, hypothetically speaking, would the hard core loyal Fairbury fans and the hard core loyal Kokomo Speedway fans support a home and home type schedule? Let's throw in the UMP modified's, too. In other words, if there was a way to get a two event series involving some of the best regional UMP dirt late model cars and drivers from Fairbury and some of the best regional POWRi midget cars and drivers and some of the best regional WAR wingless sprint cars and drivers and some of the best modified drivers all at the same events at Kokomo and Fairbury would the fans of the respective tracks support it sufficiently?
Fairbury will have the infrastructure in place going into the 2017 racing season to support full on 410 sprinters. Let's say the sprinters and late models paid $6,000.00 to win, the midgets paid $4,000.00 to win and the modified's paid $2,000.00 to win at both Fairbury and Kokomo.
I'd just about wager my lunch money that a show such as these would be strongly supported by the Kokomo fans and considering how good the POWRi midgets were at Fairbury last July the support just might be there from the Fairbury faithful.
Let's throw this deal into the mix. Lets say each track would offer a $25,000.00 bonus to anyone who wins all 4 features at the same event. $10,000.00 to anyone who wins 3 of the 4 features. The odds are long of that happening but it would provide some incentive to see who might try to pull it off.
It would have to be scheduled at a time that wouldn't in any way interfere with Indiana Sprint Week or the Prairie Dirt Classic or the late model Summer Nationals. That would leave a scheduling window of from Memorial Day Weekend to the last week of June or the weekend following the PDC up until the second weekend of August.
Two very good tracks like Fairbury and Kokomo, who know how to run a show and prepare a track, would provide some very good dirt racing entertainment for a broad spectrum of race fan.
Maybe it's not doable but how cool would it be if it was. I can dream, can't I. LOL!!
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