yeleyfan76 |
12/24/21 8:48 PM |
Re: World Of Outlaws Non Wing 2022
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Originally Posted by BrentTFunk
(Post 547331)
I am not a wing hater. I prefer to watch non wing. I have watched wings at a lot of places that no longer exist. Saw the Outlaws at West Plains, Kentucky Lake, Santa fe, the old I 70. I was at Dixie when the All Stars cancelled because the track froze. The best wing race I ever saw was the Hoosier Fall Classic, when it was still at Avilla. Haud in the Hampshire 63, edge out Hewitt in the Briscoe 5. Hewitt will tell you to this day that he actually won. I was standing at the flag stand, and I couldn't tell. I also think both the Outlaws and the All Stars are as good as I have ever seen them. I just have never seen an instance in any racing, where starting a new group has made anything better. Did any good come to Indy cars when CART was formed? When the IRL went against CART, it also set the sport back. When USA was formed and took top drivers away from the Outlaws, it took years for the sport to recover. When the NST split with the Outlaws, I don't remember a growth spurt for the sport. Sprint car racing is a niche sport. The more it is separated, and cars and fans divided, the smaller each piece will be.
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I would ask that as time moved on and these challenges to the WoO had expired did the WoO get stronger?? Did they grow?? Did they increase their existence nationally? I realize they have issues(what organization doesn’t) but to say nothing good came of those challenges seems short sighted. Maybe initially there was division but in the end it appears once the WoO conquered they moved forward and these guys race for quite a bit of money.
Who knows, maybe two years from now Usac is the only game in town again. Maybe they realize what they might have lost and step up. Maybe they laugh in your face and continue the way they operate now. Maybe they are over ridden and lose it to WRG. Anything is possible. I’d like to see the guys running today run a bunch longer in non wing for more money than read about their accomplishments in wing racing. Time will tell. Change is a strange thing. It can be really good or really bad. Being stagnant is never good. We also may find out that the only support nw racing has is in Indiana and that’s it. If so, this experiment won’t last long.
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