Originally Posted by Flatrightrear:
Anybody that gets on here and says Steve and Sammy would get their clocks cleaned running non-wing has absolutely no idea of their racing roots or their talent level. They've both won many, many times running non-wing and are two guys you still have to contend with if they show up----anytime and anywhere and racing anything. It's all there in the record books. Didn't Stevie Smith finish very well at the Mopar Million at Eldora and that was the first time he ever ran non-wing? Non-wing is great but it ain't rocket science. Good drivers figure it out pretty quick.
you are correct "FlatRR". I was up at Kokomo in the very early 80's for a 50 lap sprint car show. The Eldora Nationals had rained out early that day and in pulled Sammy Swindell with the Nance rig. They rolled the car out, took the wing off, changed the bars and gear, and won the thing. Chuck Amati, in Briscoe's car, led almost the entire race but, Sammy finally got by with a couple of laps to go. He had no problem running sans the wing!