Im a fan and have no dog other than I come to Bloomington about 3 times a year on a 350mi round trip pay my addmission and eat concessions.
I don't give a crap what a car looks like, If its good racing, I'll watch it. If a class has some drivers I know from other tracks, Like the Mods do, I'll watch em.
My experience is that Winged heat racing sucks, While a long green feature with wings can be as good as any racing. Try something different, Two 15 lap heats and a 30 lap feature if your going to run wings, Get em some laps and the chance to actually race instead of hanging on for the final 7 laps of a 8 lap heat. Until everyone's getting dirty air. There is no racing.
Two. Is this going to deplete or increase the headliner class? The reason i come in the first place and the track has had a few weeks with non 20 car fields already if some of the existing teams drop out of the 410s to do it. Whats the incentive for me to come?
Don't get me wrong, I think experience in both types of cars helps drivers become better.
I don't buy the More flips in NW or even the safety thing other than helping keep foreign objects from the cockpit with the wing.
I also think people way overestimate the popularity of wings. I don't remember the crowds being any bigger on weekly winged shows back in the 80s-90s. The WoO is a different story. All the tracks kicked the Midwest All Stars out as a inferior product to their weekly NW racing.
I don't know how it will work. I hope it work's for the track. I wish it was NW. Im sorry, thats my preference,
I also don't buy the wing making rookies better, Ive seen a bunch of kids come straight from karts or TQ's and with a couple races of 410 experience, Start moving forward in the big class.
It is what it is, my opinion don't count for much. I just think other than the feature, We'd see much better racing NW, The reason a fan comes in the first place, And more importantly, The reason a fan comes back!
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Last edited by Charles Nungester; 10/14/14 at 11:47 AM.
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