Mod - Car Counts - Central Illinois

[DirtDirtCrazy]

As a Mod Fan, I guess I am a little concerned about the low car counts at some of the tracks we travel to throughout the season. These are the number of Mods that were listed in the Features from this last weekends results:

Friday - May 1
Fayette County - 10
Farmer City - 17
Vermilion County - ? (cannot find results anywhere, but FB posts indicate low count)

Saturday - May 2
Charleston - 11
Macon - 11
Route 45 - 11 (This was a $1,500 to win special)
Fairbury - 20

I am hopeful that this is just an early season trend and the counts get better for all. There are a lot more Mods out there than LM's and my hope is that they remain a stronghold for these tracks.

[indyboywilliam]

Too expensive for the payouts!! Motors out of control!!

[dirtmod#8]

we have a 08 shaw sitting in race shop right now. has not been raced in two years. cant compete with 30,000 dollar motors, 1,000 dollar shocks, exc. normal person cant do it. cant make it on show up money. love the mods but ump and others have made it that way. enforce rules, make them for EVERYONE!!! mods are soon to be a thing of the past. car counts? they are down. why, cars like mine sitting, 4 to 5 people not going and paying 35 dollars for a pit pass, food, exc. track owners better take control of this or bye bye mods, then tracks. j.m.o.!

[indyboywilliam]

where you from dirtmod#8? Run a crate class???

[sirleafalot]

if crate is the only option then we will change classes or get out. suspension and tires are what really needs to change here.

[indyboywilliam]

were racing crate class and having fun

[SpringMan]

Davenport had close to 40 last Friday, 4 full heats, 2 B-mains, and I think they started 22 cars. No big payout, just 1st week of points racing.

[indyboywilliam]

I think if tracks would pay crate mods around $400-$600 they would get more cars than they could support just take a regular mod and put in a crate motor and police them .. and on a Hard Tire..... jmo

[MotoMatt]

Oh, you mean run IMCA...it's funny but it's actually working in central Iowa. Hardcore open motor guys have switched to the crate motors. Not all, but enough. And you can't beat the reliability of them. Davenport, mentioned above, is IMCA, so there's that going on in the eastern part of the state too.

[sirleafalot]

Oh, you mean run IMCA...it's funny but it's actually working in central Iowa. Hardcore open motor guys have switched to the crate motors. Not all, but enough. And you can't beat the reliability of them. Davenport, mentioned above, is IMCA, so there's that going on in the eastern part of the state too.

the IMCA deal is fine, because at least the crate engine is an option. The Bmod deal with UMP is a forced crate deal, making the weight deal such that you have no choice but to run a crate with every year adding more weight. At least with IMCA its your choice, and they are on a hard tire too. bring it on.

[indyboywilliam]

my opinion would be run any suspension ... 365 cubic inch or smaller on 2barrell ( No Roller Cam) or crate on 4barrell run them on Hoosier A-40 or a G60 Tire... and let them race

[bob75]

There ya go

[kidrock]

Like I said it won't be long if they can get all tracks on the same set of rules and a decent payout the B- Mods will out number the A-Mods

[kidrock]

my opinion would be run any suspension ... 365 cubic inch or smaller on 2barrell ( No Roller Cam) or crate on 4barrell run them on Hoosier A-40 or a G60 Tire... and let them race

What about a shock rule yea or ney?

[wadegarrett]

shock rule is needed.. Whats wrong with the current IMCA rules ? no roller cams, chip rule and hard tire and a break for running crates. This would allow current cars to run with QCs and keep cost down. Only issue would be no alluminum heads but short of that decent rules that would allow the current cars. Seems to work good in a lot of places. What I can see is the UMP is not helping and current plan is not working, the car counts speak to this.