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Originally Posted by 767
HUGE crowd for this being NON WING Country!  I couldn't resist. With the high rain threat, I was extremely surprised by the crowd. This was supposed to be a bunch of 1 time a year race fans. |
It's great that the O'Connor's had what appeared to be a profitable night of racing.
That said, bring that same show over here to the land of the dirt late models and see how it goes. It's a safe assumption that the Kokomo regular crowd was heavily represented. It might be that the High Limit wingers were similar enough to what races regularly at KS to impart interest.
Fairbury hosted the WoO Sprint Cars two years in a row a few years ago. They promptly dropped them from the schedule after the second show sighting losing money as the reason. This was before High Limit existed so the WoO's was the king of the mountain of wingers at that time. It was also Kyle Larson's first two appearances at Fairbury and a lot was made of that in the days leading up to those events hoping to increase interest. As many of you already know Larson returned and won the vaunted Prairie Dirt Classic.
The WoO's Sprint Car show was a totally different crowd from the usual late model/modified/street stock people and you could get a seat 'bout anywhere you wanted. As was the case at Fairbury, tribalism to a specific genre' plays a significant role regarding the success or failure of the event's in question.