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Originally Posted by ColoradoFan
Terrible for a lot of reasons. Conflicts with Belleville, wings and no wings need different track prep, predict a lousy USAC show after the 360s wear out the track. Does this mean the new promoter at Knoxville is trying to make a name for himself by changing the program? I doubt you will get many more fans on Saturday with a split show but they may think they can get a bigger crowd Sunday with wings. Remember a few years ago they ran the non-wing cars from Osky on Wednesday with the first night of the Nationals and they had no track at all to race on and they never did that again. They just need two different types of track to put on a good show as was proven at Osky this year when they had a wet track for the wings and a dry,slick track for the USAC show and ended up with two lousy shows.
Part of this may be driven by the fair board trying to get another night of winged racing to make as much money in the 10 days of 360 and 410 Nationals as they can to cover the losses on their weekly shows. I just think it's a bad idea but you need to remember Knoxville is the Mecca of winged sprint car racing and most of the people still think that since the wing cars are so much faster that they are better. The first year of the USAC show at Knoxville I heard more than one person remark that they had never seen sprint cars race three wide. That pretty much tells the tale right there.
Vern Plotts
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Vern,
I can't believe the track was prepared any different from the 360 race night on Sat to the USAC and 305 winged night on Sun.
But like it or not, it's their sand box and we have just been invited to come play. I ran their sometimes back when it was a non wing track in the late 70's, when I first started racing.....so I have had a pipe dream of some kind of Silver crown, sprint and midget weekend like the 4 crown...or even the gold crown......but I don't think Knoxville will ever leave their wing guys out, do to their faithful attendance each week of 305/360/410 drivers. I think you are right though of them changing the schudule around to get better attendance for Sunday.
Steve