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Not sure if I understand your question? If your question is as written, then there are a lot of other cars that have wings: supermodifieds, midgets and shoot even NASCAR had those silly looking wings for a few years.
If you're asking why we only talk about winged sprint cars then here is my reply to that. Before we debuted Winged Nation we had this very discussion.
Our first point was that sprint car racing as a whole is more than we can cover in a one-hour format...if we gave results of every sprint car race it would take up the whole show and that's not any fun just reading results. So, our first decision was that we had to trim it back to something manageable.
Do we split on asphalt/dirt, do we split on 410s/360s/305s, do we just talk racing tours and not weekly tracks, do we talk sprints/midgets/silver crown....so, as you can see we had some decisions to make.
And, as Kendra and I talk about on the show...I think right now that is a serious problem that open-wheeled racing has. Way to tough to understand for the casual fan. But those were the questions we laid out.
Dirt/Asphalt: We are two people (Kendra and I) who LOVE dirt track racing. That one was easy.
When you factor in the popularity of the World of Outlaws combined with Knoxville and Pennsylvania, with a dose of King of the West and the All-Stars, plus Ohio and some other hot-beds...it just made sense to us to focus on 410s with wings. We throw in some ASCS, URC and other "small block" stuff because it seems to be the trend in many ways and we have more than an hours worth of stuff to cram into and hour.
Also, last year the show was strictly a "World of Outlaws" report and with the addition of Kendra and her knowlege and background in sprint car racing it kinda made sense for us to draw the lines where we did.
So, I hope that answers your question....it's certainly not a slight of non-winged sprint cars. I absolutely love travelling to a non-winged show and over the past couple of years have hit shows at Manzanita (sad it's gone), Parris, Gas City, Paragon, and even a pavement show at Hickory last year.
What type racing to go see is a question I deal with all the time as a guy who is blessed to travel with NASCAR and then get to short tracks on a Saturday night.
For instance, this past week we were in Martinsville and the two options were NASCAR late model stocks at South Boston or dirt late models at 311 Speedway. I hit 311 last year so opted for South Boston -- the result at TERRIBLE show that had me leave halfway through in frustration.
Sometimes you'll have a night like that, but a bad night at the track is still better than any night at a hotel.
I hope this answered your question.
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