Originally Posted by WingedFan2019:
i went to that event and if i remember correctly, Tyler Courtney and Robert Ballou were half the track infront of 3rd place and lapped up to 8th place. Just take the 2 biggest wing/non-wing events and compare. in non wing you have 7, 8 drivers that have a real chance of winning. Bacon, Grant, Windom Leary, KTJ, T-Mez Ballou and Cummins. Whereas if the best Winged drivers all race with eachother There's 15 i can name that stand a chance of winning. Winged racing definitely has higher quality drivers thus adding to the reason why Winged Racing is better overall.
I mean this with all respect but you obviously don’t follow non wing. You left out Darland, Chase Stockon, Shane Cottle, Jake Swanson, AJ Hopkins, J-Mac, Brady Short, Carson Short, Matt Westfall, Scotty Weir, Brent Beauchamp, Shane Cockrum, Stevie Sussex and others i’m sure i’ve missed. Wouldn’t sleep on newcomer to 410’s, Emerson Axsom, either
Smackdown 10 rolls off next week and i’d be willing to bet there will be 25+ drivers entered who are either a former track/series champion or have won multiple features in the last two years.
Sprint cars are awesome and yes, wing racing has a ton of studs as well. Both disciplines have teams that come and go. Admitting my own bias for non wing racing, i just find the notion of wing racing being a bit of a golden goose preposterous. True, nobody in this thread called it a “golden goose” but it is being implied over and over again that there’s no reason financially to run non wing.