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I know there are exceptions to every rule, but generally most cucumbers are green. Please go back and read my question again, but slower.

Before HL started last year what big races were the outlaws being deprived of running? 

You didn't answer my question. What races were the big bad Woo keeping drivers from competing in. If I remember correctly the drivers were asking for less races on the schedule years back.

You can't name a specific race that drivers were complaining about not being able to attend because there was none.

You didn't answer the question about the 4 race rule, nor have you enlightened anyone about your expertise on everything including cucumbers. I bet the outlaws don't even understand what that last sentence is supposed to mean.

A race at Lincoln is the reason it's a BS rule? 

If it's such a BS rule surely there must be a lot of drivers complaining about it right? You give one example of a race at Lincoln so what what were all these races they were missing out on? I don't remember anyone complaining about missing out on regular shows.

Right.   The benefits of the highest paying point fund, the highest paying tow money, the highest paying contingencies far far far outweigh what they could make from running that 5th race above the 4 race limit, that it is a great compromise to reward the platinum program and keep tracks from getting defacto outlaw shows for free without paying the fees that in turn pay the biggest perks in the sport.  Not rocket science, but so many just don't get it.  Ignorance is bliss I reckon. 

Strawser's babblings aside, it gets back to my question that he obvious doesn't know the answer to. Is the WoO allowing their platinum members the 4 race exception this year?

I haven't heard if they are allowed to or not I'm assuming they are allowed to or there would have been an announcement that they were taking the four races away.

whoa,the sides car...

Ascot was the greatest of all time..

West Capital wasn't half bad either..

Life is good...

I'm full of shit but you can't name more than one race at Lincoln. The only ones that come to mind is Sides and Sheldon really making something over the not a rule but an agreement when you sign up for the Platinum benefits. You can't name a single specific race they were being deprived of before HL so save your bullshit for the next stupid thing you get behind.

Good comeback what's next sticks n stones.

Been around longer than you. In the 80s or 90s there was no platinum plan dumb ass. Do you really think the tow money and other perks were what they are now? Nothing has pushed the growth of Sprint car racing more than the Woo. You're just another Stoopid kid that wants the shiny new toy.

Bullshit when Karl and Mark Kinser ran together they would sometimes skip the tour and run Ohio speedweeks. Nobody has a gun to their head to sign up for the benefits if they don't they can run wherever they want that's a fact.The Woo is a business so is th the HL it's their playground and their money. Funny how the three examples of teams that bitched about running other races are signed up for 2024 can you explain that?

   That's a very easy problem to address, simply have,  say a 500 mile circle around any WOO date/track and you can't race there within say 10 days of a WOO show. Very simple problem to solve, it's all about control with WOO

A couple thoughts here....

I recall a couple times in the past where tracks were trying to attract WoO drivers to non-sanctioned races and the WoO kinda put the kabobs to it. Husets Speedway tried, I think it was called The Gold Cup race. A track in Ohio (Mansfield?) tried a $100,000 to win race right after the Knoxville Nationals. So, I believe there were some bigger races involved.

I thought that the WoO exclusive rule was started when somebody after Ted Johnson decided to take the WoO to the "next level". Once drivers started signing contracts for tow money and other benefits, the die was cast. Whether you like the rule or don't, you've got to understand that business reason behind the rule. If you don't or won't understand that, you're just being ignorant or immature...

Early nineties didn't run the full schedule till around 95 or 96. Tracks were scheduling races around the eastern swings to draw Woo drivers. Then they started a rule with you couldn't attend races within 100 miles or 48 hours of a certain track (Williams Grove) to protect their brand. The Platinum deal started after the WRG took over. By the way a lot of guys would drop the n to run the Oh speedweek finale at Eldora for the big money.

Really? Where did they finish in the points. They won in 96 Karl did what he wanted when Steve ran Nascar. Answer me this how many teams declined the Platinum incentives since it was started? Surely if it was such a big deal some would have declined signing up so they could be so free.

Step back into reality. "Hundreds and hundreds of drivers" did not "decline the offer to go full time with the outlaws". You can't expect anybody to take you seriously when blatantly make stuff up.