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Originally Posted by Bill Gardner
Next year? You guys forget that the King of NonWing was rescheduled after the rainout the Saturday before the Patriot. I doubt we see this event scheduled on the same night again.
My take on Saturday... Something happened and has been happening that is not a good trend for sprint car racing.
The modified payout was much higher/good... and cars came out in large numbers (72).
The sprint car payout was basically a regular show payout for feature #1, lower than a regular show for features #2 & 3... and we saw the largest car count (55) at any Indiana sprint car track. Obviously the sprint car count was aided by no other track racing sprint cars.
More sprint cars than any night of the Kokomo Smackdown. 
Mix in the fact that 507 modifieds have raced in Indiana versus 241 sprint cars in Indiana.
The cost associated with owning a modified are very close to owning a sprint car (with the only exception being a few top notch sprint car teams).
If you are a sprint car team or fan... It sure sends a bad message to promoters when low payouts for sprint cars(and offering every car a feature) fill up the pits... while higher payouts for modifieds fill up the pits.
If sprint car teams don't support the higher paying events in large numbers... why on earth does a promoter assume the risk of offering more money.
If this trend continues... and if I was a promoter and it was all about my bottomline. I would run higher payouts for modifieds weekly and only host high paying NW sprints as a special show. I'm a big fan of sprint car racing... and that's terrible! |
Bill I'd say it has to do a lot with low budget sprint teams not attending higher paying races because they don't want to spend all that money knowing they don't have a very good shot at making the feature. Let's be honest a low budget guy is not going to go out and outrun the darlands, jones, windom, etc. I'm not saying they don't have the talent or ability to, I'm just saying they get out-monied. Sprint racing is pricing many drivers out of being competitive. And the mods are heading that way too, but the massive number of mods out there is whats saving them right now.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if paragon has the highest car count this weekend. Being guaranteed to make the show means a lot to some teams that just want to race.
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