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Personally I prefer watching and driving non wing way more then winged. Although driving part is only a mini sprint. I don't have big problems with winged racing, just don't prefer it. This is coming from someone that grew up always watching winged racing in Ohio.
We never really went to any non wing races until after I was already started racing in about 2012-2013 at Waynesfield. Started seeing a lot of non wing races at Waynesfield and enjoyed it a lot more.

Mini sprints is what I race/d and non wing was always weird to most and most was against it. So I started and ran mostly winged racing.
A year or 2 later a race got canceled and we took our mini sprint to Montpelier to race with the full midgets, late 2014 i think. Only thing we did different was took the wings off, we kept winged setup on winged gearing etc... For the first few laps I was a giant squirrel, started figuring it out and was putting really good laps and times down. In the Heat I was running 2-3 wide with people and running the last transfer spot. Coming to the checkered flag, out of 4 I tried to drive it like a winged car and expected the car to hold the corner. I was wrong went full speed into the wall out of 4. Luckily i hit the brakes enough to turn the car sideways. Destroyed rear end engine etc...

After that day though, I never wanted to run a winged race again. Only did after that, because it was close. We've traveled 400-500 miles round trip to race Non wing due to that. Even down to South Carolina. It'd be very rare for me to travel that much for a winged race. Last time I actually ran a winged race was now 2019.
It took me 5 years of racing mini sprints, to finally have my first flip. It was non wing and I yard saled it out of, funny enough Montpelier. Going off of pictures and google maps I estimated it to be about 400-430ft. Knocked out, messed my back and knees up, some memory loss and there was nothing left of the car. Only thing good was seat, steering box and the rear rims. This was 3 years ago now and still feels like it was yesterday, still prefer non wing though.

People would say I was weird, but i'd rather run a non wing sprint car locally and work a normal job. Than to race a winged car for a living. I'd rather do something I enjoy more and get paid less, than to do something that i'm not a big fan of and get paid more.