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JMO but there are too many options in USAC. With WOO you get the same names every night, you get the same cars, you get the same surface, and you get the same rules. Its easy to follow. To the casual fan USAC is complicated, you got dirt, pavement, silver crown, sprint car, and midget, then focus midgets, throw in all the regional stuff and you better be on a site like this everyday or your lost on who is doing what. If you go to a WOO race you know youre gonna see Kinser, go to a USAC sprint race and Darland might be off running a midget on pavement that night. I love the diversity in USAC but in this day and age it might be its own worse enemy. WOO is a true blue for profit business where as USAC is for making money but its more of a traditional ran CLUB with lots of history to uphold.
IMO thats what makes dirt late models so popular is because you dont have to decide which type of late model you want to follow, its just that, dirt and late models. With Sprint cars in general its crazy think about it, quater midget, modified midget, mini sprint, TQ, Kenyon, Focus,midget, wing modified midget, wing mini sprint, wing TQ, 600cc, 1200cc, stock , outlaw, non wing sprint 360,wing sprint 305, wing sprint 360, non wing 410, wing 410, silver crown dirt, silver crown pavement, then throw in some wieght rules that vary. With the exception of the new crate lates your choices are very simple, yea I know there are pavement late models but its not the same deal as it is with the open wheel world. I guess you could argue that leading up to late models you have street cars, mods then lates but its still much simpler to the casual fan such as my wife or my nieghbor that has never been the races before. Let me end by stating I love the USAC format but when asking why one on over another this is my take on it.
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