Hawker is right It is all about car control. The problem lies with how NASCAR team owners offer chances to new drivers. I'm not faulting them, just the process. USAC guys get chances because they have asphalt experience. Team owners figure (correctly) that if they can control an 800 hp sprint car on pavement they can control a heavy NASCAR machine. Gordon, Stewart, Irwin, Kahne, etc. have all proven this. WoO drivers have every bit as much ability but they have little or no pavement experience. That is what hurt Steve Kinser the most when he got his screwing from Kenny Bernstein after No. Wilkesboro in April of '95. No one is a better driver than Kinser yet, when he didn't produce results after just 7 attempts, he was gone. If you look at all the young guys in development deals they all have one thing in common, no matter what series they came from. Pavement experience. With the WoO schedule as busy as it is there is no way that any driver in that series is going to get any significant amount of pavement experience so they are then "locked in" to remain with WoO. Until that changes what you see now is the way it will be for a very long time.