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The issue of low cars counts on pavement has a lot to do not being a weekly division at any speedways. There aren't five tracks running pavement sprinters weekly, winged or not, 410, 360, 305, 262, 183 or whatever else is out there.
When WoO runs in areas with a strong weekly contingent, the local cars may not all flood the pits, but the top dogs usually show up.
USAC and MSCS draw good car counts because they too sanction at traditional weekly sprint car racing tracks. Some of these tracks produce USAC/MSCS quality shows weekly, without sanctioning.
Pavement cars, with or without wings, are a small fraction of the sprint car world. Here in Indiana/Michigan, we estimated less than 50 wing cars built and ready to race at the start of 2009. Splitting that pie between HOSS and Michigan's AVSS series, and subtracting 20% for 'stay homers', that left AT THE MOST 40 cars to run in 2 series on head to head scheduled events.
When non conflicting races were held this year, HOSS brought 26 cars to Fort Wayne and that many again to Angola. They had 23 at Anderson the same night USAC was at Salem.
Speaking of Anderson, how can there be 40+ cars for the Little 500 this year, and then almost no USAC cars in the race? They weren't all wing guys taking it off...
HOSS had 21 at Winchester last night. At least 4 cars stayed for today's USAC show. There were zero USAC regular cars winging up for last night.
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