Last year, WAR sanctioned most of the races in the Heartland area. Valley Speedway ran a non-sanctioned program that raced more or less every other weekend, and there was a new group that came on last year called the Iowa Sprint League that started sanctioning races in Iowa and parts of Missouri.
In a couple of press releases that went unnoticed by most, there are going to be a lot more non-wing racing in the Heartland this year.
First, the Iowa Sprint League now fly's under the POWRi racing banner. This group raced mostly in Iowa, but did sanction some races in northern Missouri last year.
http://www.powri.com/news/?i=80197
And a new Wingless group was formed to compete against WAR. This new group is called the Midwest Wingless Racing Association. Soon after it was formed, it formed a partnership with USAC. They already have nine nights sanctioned between Lakeside and I-35.
https://www.facebook.com/MidwestWing...type=3&theater
Finally, if you look at Valley's schedule they are once again running non-wing sprints every two weeks. However, this year they are calling themselves the Valley POWRi WAR sprints. They did something similar last year with the midgets and they were a separate POWRi sanction.
http://www.valleyspeedway.com/schedule/
On top of these three groups, there should be the traditional WAR sanction. It will be interesting to see how many of the Valley nights are part of the traditional WAR sanction. It will also be interesting to see how many of the dates are going to be on top of each other.
It will either be a great summer for nonwing sprint cars in the Heartland, or it will be a giant source of frustration with split fields every where you go.