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Maybe a little history is in order here. First of all, as others have mentioned what new fan base would you be reaching with winged pavement sprint cars? The history of USAC pavement racing was at its best when one car could do both surfaces. That all went to hell when a few wealthy owners were willing to spend enormous dollars to run specialized cars for pavement. so you had teams like the Armstrong team and a few others who basically put the small teams at a huge disadvantage. A few of us who were around at this time watched as the USAC schedule began to be dominated by pavement racing to the point where if you wanted to see a dirt race you had to look elsewhere. Lastly, like it or not much of USAC's issues during this time period is that they were still operating under the dominance of IMS and the concept of running USAC meant a trip to the 500. We all know how that turned out. All of this opened the door for the WoO to to prosper because of the lack of understanding in the leadership at USAC as to what their new role was to be as CART came to the Speedway Today USAC needs to realize its bread and butter is the great racing that can be found in non-wing dirt racing. Now if they could just figure out a way to inform the young sprint car fan about the differences between wing vs non-wing they would really be on to something!
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