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Nebraska is winged 360 country...the 360 nats at Knoxville have most of those guys....quite a few would shed the barn door and run a USAC race close to home if it weren't for Knoxville....there is a pair of brothers named Stasa that would be there with their 360s but they are at Belleville with their midgets....there is a pretty large group of nonwing cars in Missouri but they are running their weekly track, Grain Valley, tonight....tomorrow when USAC comes to Grain Valley there will be at least 19 locals join them..the promoter has put up some pretty hefty incentives for the locals to compete with USAC and 19 of them have committed....Look for at least 30 cars tomorrow night at Valley...Sunday at Osbourne the count will probably drop off a bit because some of the Missouri locals will be worn out from 2 straight nights at Grain Valley or they will not want to bring a knife (305 or 360) to a gunfight on a track that's as much bigger and faster as Osbourne is...but you could easily see a few guys pop in who are at Knoxville tonight and tomorrow...
The only problem with car counts right now is that there is just too much major racing in the plains this weekend...10 straight days in Iowa with every type of sprintcar imaginable running at least twice, Belleville with midgets and 305 sprints, Outlaws at Pevely tomorrow, Missouri local nonwing tonight, USAC 5 of the next 6 nights, etc etc.
Used to be that after Knoxvilles 4 days of racing there would be an All Stars/NCRA tour through the plains...Belleville happened the weekend before Knoxville and everybody kinda worked around each other.... now there are 8 days at Knoxville, 2 at Osky, a USAC sprint swing, an Outlaw Show at Pevely plus all the local/weekly stuff...just not enough cars to support all the fragmentation and multiple big shows on top of each other.
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