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I don't get to see any pavement sprints at all around here anymore. Nor do I get to see any USAC races either. I have seen winged sprints on pavement when I lived in Lubbock and they had a paved track. I've also made a trip to Winchester to see sprints, supers and midgets which was an awesome weekend. So it hurts me to see these small car counts for pavement sprints. I know, it's the economy. Well that is the reason/excuse for practically all low car count series I've ever heard of. Well I don't know much about fixing the economy, but I know what I'd do about the low car counts.
If I was say the promoter of Winchester, I'd tell USAC, bring me AT LEAST 24 cars. If you can't bring 24 cars, then just stay home. Then I'd run a race with Racesaver rules. Instead of 15 cars with 600+ hp, I'd rather have 40 cars with 400+ hp. 400 hp on 1500lbs race cars would put on a great show. Would the fans be able to tell the difference? Sure they would. They wouldn't be quite as fast and there would be a HELL OF A LOT MORE OF THEM!
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