The Midget Championships begin tonight at Western Springs in Auckland.
American Motorsport racing driver Logan Seavey said the event is hugely significant in the sport.
"The Springs is a great track - super tight, but really good racing and we've got some great competition this year, so I'm expecting a pretty exciting race."
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to The All Sport Breakfast podcast with Dancy
Wildegrave from US talks EDB, fakeant eggs and a healthy
surfing of sport. The All Sport Breakfast with Dancy Wildegrave
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Speedway at seven forty six. Let's get to Western Springs figuratively,
not literally. American visitor Logan CV joins us.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Now, good morning, Logan, good morning, Welcome to New Zealand.
Well that it's not the first time you've been here.
It's a it's a big night tonight at Western Springs.
As far as the size of the event and the
people running the New Zealand Midget Championship, this is very significant,
is it not.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's huge for everybody running, especially you know
the people that are here from New Zealand. You know,
they want to defend their home turf and they want
to race all year with that one and that so
and then yeah, it's just as big forms and that's
you know why we come over here, and you know
and even some Australians so we would love to you know,
come here and try to beat these guys and take
(01:13):
that one and from them and you know, maybe come
back again next year to defend it again. So yeah,
it's big for everybody. We're we're really excited to get
going at the Springs tonight and and see how we get.
So we've had a good few races here, biness being
over he here, I've raced you know, four times and
we got a few podiums already, so I think our
car is pretty quick and we should have a chance
(01:34):
to yeah, hopefully when when a pretty big event here
in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's a tight track, it's wonderful to race on. It's
a graceive, it's highly entertaining, but it's there a trick
to winning here. How do you go about your racing?
What do you put down when you're exa out?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, yeah, No, Western Springs is one of the nicest
facilities I've I've ever raced that, So it's great to
get the race there and and yeah, you just it's exciting.
You know, it's only I think it's a forty lap race,
so you pretty much run it as hard as you
can and asked if you can for the for the
entire race and and hope you come out on top.
But but yeah, it's it's very, very difficult, but it's
(02:13):
super exciting. The Springs is a great track, super tight,
but really good racing, and and uh, you know, we've
got some great competition this year, so I'm expecting a
pretty pretty.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Exciting expectations for yourself and you curl bet we are
going to finish because You've got quite the record, haven't you.
You've picked up a couple of championship titles in the
last couple of years in the States.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, I've I've had a great few years back
at home in the States and racing what I do
back home. So the expect expectations at anytime I really
go to the track is to try to win, and
and that's what we're there to do. So yeah, I didn't.
I didn't fly across the Pacific Ocean. That did not win.
So that's why that's why we're here. We're we're hoping
to win, and that's you know, that's why my Carner
(02:55):
Greenway Racing brought me over here to to try to
win them a race as well. So, uh, they've got
a great local racer as well with Brad Monson and
and then they brought me over to hopefully, you know,
add on to their at their chances of winning the race.
So yeah, we're we're both expecting to have get a
run to here and hopefully, yeah one of us can
grab No. One into the title.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
What's the significant difference, if any, between midget racing state
side and midget racing over a Hea Logan Really.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Not a whole lot. The cars are exactly the same.
They run for the most part, all the parts and
pieces are the same. Man the format and how they
run the races changes a lot over here compared to
how we do it at home. But outside of that,
driving the cars and all that's exactly the same. The
competition is different, so you have to have to learn
to race around different cars and then you step back
at home. But and then, yeah, the biggest change is
(03:44):
just the race tracks. The racetracks here are all fairly
narrow and really flat. We're at home, we kind of
we kind of see a little bit of everything, but
when you come over here in New Zealand, you know
you're getting to be on a real flat racetrack, and
for the most part they're they're really narrow, which makes
the racing really really tight and makes you have to
drive really aggressively to you know, to pass cars, and
(04:04):
it really is just a very exciting, uh style of racing.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Over here, So like not a lot of room for ERA.
If it's considerably tight to what you used to over
in the States, you've got to be, I'm presuming, very
precise in what you do out there. No room for ERA.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, that's exactly right. So yeah, not only racing around
by their cards, but even out there by yourself. Like
I was talking about Brad Mosen's current New Zealand champion
and he crashed and qualifying on Thursday, and you know,
he was unable to finish the night, so he had
to they had to go get him a new car
and fill a brand new car together. So if this
(04:40):
shows even even the best guys here can make mistakes
and end their nights. So yeah, it's it's super exciting,
it's super tight, and it's it's really close racing, and yeah,
you definitely get some wheel banging, and yeah, as a fan,
I don't see how there could be much better.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Like and CV joins us and tell us a little
bit about the current's selfie people out there who don't
understand the vagaries of track track racing. So what are
you actually driving? What's it gone? What's the paler, what's
under your foot? What are we dealing with here?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, so the power we were a we were on
inline four engines, four cylinder engines, so we have about
three hundred and sixty or so horse power. They are
mechanicsally fuel injected, so they they take off really quick
and they're they're really quick cars. I know, three hundred
and sixty horse power doesn't sound like a lot, but
I think they have to be about four hundred and
(05:34):
eighty kilos or so. I know the conversion in pounds
of one thousand and seventy, but I think the kilos
is about four hundred and eighty five around there. So,
and you compare that to the amount of power, it's
super light race car with a lot of power, and
they're super quick. They move around really quickly, and really
in my opinion like that. I can we got sprint
car racing and those cars have eight or nine hundred
(05:55):
horse power, but the measure racing is just so exciting.
It really is the most exciting form of motorsports in
my opinion. So, yeah, you got a little open wheel
car and with a little four cylinder engine bolted into it,
and and you know, I just scot hires and you go.
So they're pretty pretty quick race cards.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And funny logan. Thanks so much for join us here
on Newstalk z Bay. Do you race anything else outside
of midget's?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Uh? Yeah, home, I race, uh manage it, and then
I race mostly non wing sprint cars, but I also
do some wing sprint cards, which is like what they
run at the at the Springs and other tracks around here.
We have a class at home called the Simmer Crown Cars,
which is kind of just a bigger form of a
sprint car, and they race on usually bigger tracks half
miles up to one miles or even bigger sometimes, so
(06:43):
that's more of a bigger track and a long race
style of car.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And then I race, like I said, I raced the
wing sprint cards. Occasionally I race some dirt late model races,
which you guys, I don't believe have here, or the
closest single dirt late model would be a super saloon,
which is actually really really cool cars. I kind of
wish we had those in the States, so we don't,
So yeah, I kind of race, a little bit of
everything back home. It's a it's a four seasons.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Hey, good luck tonight, Logan, thanks very much for joining us.
Let's hope the weather comes to the party, and let's
hope you can walk off with the w Thanks so
much for your time. Drive well, drive safe, drive aggressively.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Ah, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Indeed they are and we're looking forward to seeing you
pedal them. Plenty of engagement as well, I might add
on the text line, especially Craig hot under the collar
Around this, he says, Western Spring Speedway. We'll still be
going in ninety five years from now. We are not
going anywhere. The only constant is changed. And as much
(07:44):
as I love that place, as much as I enjoy
going there, or that's not been as regular as i'd
like being a pops now, although daughter's old enough to
drag along, which it did last year, Things change, Things
move on. Pooki koy, for example, what a racetrack that
is no longer exists?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
For more from the Your Sport Breakfast with Darcy Watergrave,
listen live to News Talk said Be on Saturday mornings,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to The All Sport Breakfast podcast with Dancy
Wildegrave from US talks EDB, fakeant eggs and a healthy
surfing of sport. The All Sport Breakfast with Dancy Wildegrave
thanks to DJ gun Homes, New Zealand's most trusted home
builder used talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Speedway at seven forty six. Let's get to Western Springs figuratively,
not literally. American visitor Logan CV joins us.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Now, good morning, Logan, good morning, Welcome to New Zealand.
Well that it's not the first time you've been here.
It's a it's a big night tonight at Western Springs.
As far as the size of the event and the
people running the New Zealand Midget Championship, this is very significant,
is it not.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's huge for everybody running, especially you know
the people that are here from New Zealand. You know,
they want to defend their home turf and they want
to race all year with that one and that so
and then yeah, it's just as big forms and that's
you know why we come over here, and you know
and even some Australians so we would love to you know,
come here and try to beat these guys and take
(01:13):
that one and from them and you know, maybe come
back again next year to defend it again. So yeah,
it's big for everybody. We're we're really excited to get
going at the Springs tonight and and see how we get.
So we've had a good few races here, biness being
over he here, I've raced you know, four times and
we got a few podiums already, so I think our
car is pretty quick and we should have a chance
(01:34):
to yeah, hopefully when when a pretty big event here
in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's a tight track, it's wonderful to race on. It's
a graceive, it's highly entertaining, but it's there a trick
to winning here. How do you go about your racing?
What do you put down when you're exa out?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, yeah, No, Western Springs is one of the nicest
facilities I've I've ever raced that, So it's great to
get the race there and and yeah, you just it's exciting.
You know, it's only I think it's a forty lap race,
so you pretty much run it as hard as you
can and asked if you can for the for the
entire race and and hope you come out on top.
But but yeah, it's it's very, very difficult, but it's
(02:13):
super exciting. The Springs is a great track, super tight,
but really good racing, and and uh, you know, we've
got some great competition this year, so I'm expecting a
pretty pretty.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Exciting expectations for yourself and you curl bet we are
going to finish because You've got quite the record, haven't you.
You've picked up a couple of championship titles in the
last couple of years in the States.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, I've I've had a great few years back
at home in the States and racing what I do
back home. So the expect expectations at anytime I really
go to the track is to try to win, and
and that's what we're there to do. So yeah, I didn't.
I didn't fly across the Pacific Ocean. That did not win.
So that's why that's why we're here. We're we're hoping
to win, and that's you know, that's why my Carner
(02:55):
Greenway Racing brought me over here to to try to
win them a race as well. So, uh, they've got
a great local racer as well with Brad Monson and
and then they brought me over to hopefully, you know,
add on to their at their chances of winning the race.
So yeah, we're we're both expecting to have get a
run to here and hopefully, yeah one of us can
grab No. One into the title.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
What's the significant difference, if any, between midget racing state
side and midget racing over a Hea Logan Really.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Not a whole lot. The cars are exactly the same.
They run for the most part, all the parts and
pieces are the same. Man the format and how they
run the races changes a lot over here compared to
how we do it at home. But outside of that,
driving the cars and all that's exactly the same. The
competition is different, so you have to have to learn
to race around different cars and then you step back
at home. But and then, yeah, the biggest change is
(03:44):
just the race tracks. The racetracks here are all fairly
narrow and really flat. We're at home, we kind of
we kind of see a little bit of everything, but
when you come over here in New Zealand, you know
you're getting to be on a real flat racetrack, and
for the most part they're they're really narrow, which makes
the racing really really tight and makes you have to
drive really aggressively to you know, to pass cars, and
(04:04):
it really is just a very exciting, uh style of racing.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Over here, So like not a lot of room for ERA.
If it's considerably tight to what you used to over
in the States, you've got to be, I'm presuming, very
precise in what you do out there. No room for ERA.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, that's exactly right. So yeah, not only racing around
by their cards, but even out there by yourself. Like
I was talking about Brad Mosen's current New Zealand champion
and he crashed and qualifying on Thursday, and you know,
he was unable to finish the night, so he had
to they had to go get him a new car
and fill a brand new car together. So if this
(04:40):
shows even even the best guys here can make mistakes
and end their nights. So yeah, it's it's super exciting,
it's super tight, and it's it's really close racing, and yeah,
you definitely get some wheel banging, and yeah, as a fan,
I don't see how there could be much better.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Like and CV joins us and tell us a little
bit about the current's selfie people out there who don't
understand the vagaries of track track racing. So what are
you actually driving? What's it gone? What's the paler, what's
under your foot? What are we dealing with here?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, so the power we were a we were on
inline four engines, four cylinder engines, so we have about
three hundred and sixty or so horse power. They are
mechanicsally fuel injected, so they they take off really quick
and they're they're really quick cars. I know, three hundred
and sixty horse power doesn't sound like a lot, but
I think they have to be about four hundred and
(05:34):
eighty kilos or so. I know the conversion in pounds
of one thousand and seventy, but I think the kilos
is about four hundred and eighty five around there. So,
and you compare that to the amount of power, it's
super light race car with a lot of power, and
they're super quick. They move around really quickly, and really
in my opinion like that. I can we got sprint
car racing and those cars have eight or nine hundred
(05:55):
horse power, but the measure racing is just so exciting.
It really is the most exciting form of motorsports in
my opinion. So, yeah, you got a little open wheel
car and with a little four cylinder engine bolted into it,
and and you know, I just scot hires and you go.
So they're pretty pretty quick race cards.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And funny logan. Thanks so much for join us here
on Newstalk z Bay. Do you race anything else outside
of midget's?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Uh? Yeah, home, I race, uh manage it, and then
I race mostly non wing sprint cars, but I also
do some wing sprint cards, which is like what they
run at the at the Springs and other tracks around here.
We have a class at home called the Simmer Crown Cars,
which is kind of just a bigger form of a
sprint car, and they race on usually bigger tracks half
miles up to one miles or even bigger sometimes, so
(06:43):
that's more of a bigger track and a long race
style of car.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And then I race, like I said, I raced the
wing sprint cards. Occasionally I race some dirt late model races,
which you guys, I don't believe have here, or the
closest single dirt late model would be a super saloon,
which is actually really really cool cars. I kind of
wish we had those in the States, so we don't,
So yeah, I kind of race, a little bit of
everything back home. It's a it's a four seasons.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Hey, good luck tonight, Logan, thanks very much for joining us.
Let's hope the weather comes to the party, and let's
hope you can walk off with the w Thanks so
much for your time. Drive well, drive safe, drive aggressively.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Ah, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Indeed they are and we're looking forward to seeing you
pedal them. Plenty of engagement as well, I might add
on the text line, especially Craig hot under the collar
Around this, he says, Western Spring Speedway. We'll still be
going in ninety five years from now. We are not
going anywhere. The only constant is changed. And as much
(07:44):
as I love that place, as much as I enjoy
going there, or that's not been as regular as i'd
like being a pops now, although daughter's old enough to
drag along, which it did last year, Things change, Things
move on. Pooki koy, for example, what a racetrack that
is no longer exists?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
For more from the Your Sport Breakfast with Darcy Watergrave,
listen live to News Talk said Be on Saturday mornings,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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