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Why do late models get the bigger races, plain and simple, they get more cars and fans. Look how accesable the late model stuff is. You can find 1 or 2 races on TV each week. You go to a big race, several trailers selling murchandise. Easy to follow, .... no matter who these guys run for, there numbers stay the same. Scott Bloomquist #0, Don Oneil #71, Earl Person #44 exctra. Also when these guys venture out into something else, they run there number. When Scott Bloomquist runs a modified, it has the 0 on it. Thats not the case with open wheel guys. Just look at the 4 crown. A guy might run the #17 midget, the #58 sprint car, and the #34 silver crown car. Or he might run the #20 car when he is not running usac, but when he goes to a usac race he is in the 9 car. Open wheel is based on name loyalty. Unfortunatlly there are not many open wheel tracks or series that invest into creating that loyalty. When the casual fan shows up to the track, and has no clue who is driving any of the cars, how is the track or series going to ever build anything? Who wants to buy a t-shirt of there favorite driver when they do not see him race the car on the shirt? The WoO is the only open wheel organization who has built national fan loyalty. That is why they will always have the biggest open wheel races and will always bring in many more fans.
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