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February 04, 2019 at
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Posted By: StanM on February 03 2019 at 11:23:36 AM
I'll probably catch hell from hard core Sprint Car fans but down in New Zealand they have an open wheel class they call Super Stocks. They run the old fiberglass Model A bodies and they're built for contact which makes their races look like a blast to watch. Seeing as most weekly tracks run several support classes that don't pay a huge purse I'd like to see something like these in the US. I know they'd probably turn off some of the hard core speed fanatics but our local tracks get packed to the rafters for things like School Bus night. Young people today aren't motorheads like my generation was in the 60's but they love classes that provide a dose of mayhem.
Thinking back on my youth and the first races I went to around 1960 we were there for the old Modified coupes of that era but things like Jalopy enduros and figure eight I recall being a hoot to watch. The limited non-wing or Traditioinal Sprints and the B Modifieds both had quick success but I don't see any classes on the horizon poised to make that big of a splash in the future.
New Zealand Super Stocks
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A flat quarter mile track with a 4 foot high, wooden catch fence suggeststhat those things aren't exactly setting any speed records. I'd be concerned that guardrails welded on the sides of the cars and the snowplows on front would make it more like roller derby than auto racing. 
As long as we're talking about weird... those New Zealand cars make me think of an idea that rolls around in my head occasionally. What would happen if you took the main guts of a B-mod and put it in tube frame with a 4x4 top wing for sponsors' names? Make the body a fiberglass 1930's Ford and you've got an open wheel supermodified. On a smaller track that might be interesting.
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February 13, 2019 at
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You don't have to worry. Just saw an article in speed sport (not able to link it for some reason) stating Yamaha has decided to discontinue the project.
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