Getting back to the original topic…

IN MY OPINION, part of what makes the WoO races so successful when they do run in Indiana is the fact that there are very limited opportunities to see them in the state. We were at the Tri-State race in April, and the crowd there was the biggest I think I’ve seen there, and if not, certainly one of the biggest. I’m not sure you would see the huge attendance for the WoO races if they regularly appeared in IN. There attendance in IN is a novelty, and I think they like to keep it that way.

As to the other question posed about tracks running winged sprints, I BELIEVE most IN tracks running weekly sprint cars at some point or another in the latter 70’s and 80’s all switched their weekly program to winged sprint cars from non-winged, but after a relatively short period of time, switched back. I am not sure whether they switched back due to decreasing attendance or decreasing car counts or both, but as I recall, the experiment was relatively short lived for most that tried it.