Mini Cup Cars are NOT Go-Karts and statements to the contrary show a sever lack of the knowledge, research, and understanding of the product.
They are entry level cars for those wanting to gain experience or learn how to race stock cars.
Additionally there are 500 races per year with 1000's of drivers who compete, most of them are 14, the EXACT demographic of the SPIKE TV viewer at 9-am.
The Mini Cup series is taking very professionally in both the Sport, NASCAR and in it's TV coverage.
Having Mini Cups make great sense in terms of Safety, Training, Marketing and in SPIKES core demographic.
Source: NY Mini Cup Club:
The Western New York Mini Cup Club Race Cars are 1/2 scale NASCAR NEXTEL Cup and BUSCH style real race cars. These Mini Cup cars have almost all the same adjustments and components as a full size stock car with its camber, caster, toe, panhard bar, break bias, a full roll cage, fire wall, fuel cell, and more.
Western New York Mini Cup Club is The club that gets you started on the right path to full size stock car racing. Here are some examples; Cup Light, Super Stock, Late-Models, SST Modified, ARCA, BUSH, and NASCAR.
Source Minicup.com
Tom Roche of Lakeland, Florida. Tom liked what he saw and decided to make his mark in minicup racing. His first big contribution was to fashion a professional quality fiberglass body for this new car. The new bodywork was a big hit – especially when Tom took his car to Daytona International Speedway for Speedweeks. This exposure gained a new friend for minicups – Terry Linger of Linger Group Productions. Terry was producing racing shows for ESPN and wanted to put minicups on TV. After a special appearance on "Raceday" minicups became a regular on "Saturday Night Lightning" on ESPN competing at the Indianapolis Veledrome.
