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I've never really understood the hatred/bashing or people wanting either series to go away or fail. Seemed like a pretty stupid wish IMO. I was not sure of the HL business model to start and I still think it has some volatility to it and being too dependent on streaming BUT, not my business. I think some fans over the years got WAAAAYY too caught up in the business aspect of racing series. A lot of those people do not understand how any business works in general through reading comments here and online. To me, even though the business aspect does interest me, I seperate the WoO and HL from the business side vs the fan/competitive side.
Business side arguement made: WoO forces teams to race WoO events only (4 race exception now) and punishes with taking away membership if they do not follow proper protocol, while HL provides freedom of letting teams race wherever they want (even though a majority of the weekends each is racing some place else). You can go to the other 100 threads where both of these have been argued to death and personally I do not give a crap about what either business decides to do or structure themselves.
Competition side: Both series have drivers that I enjoy wathcing. If the driving distance fits in my window and my schedule aligns, I am going to a race of either series. Between the 2 series, you have some 25 or more full time teams? Which is more than ever and you have people like Tony Stewart and others that have been part of series say with the way each are constructed, having 12 or more teams does not make for a sustainable business. So we have more competitive teams racing, competiting full time against each other than ever before, we have a number of crossover events where we see all of them or a high % of them together. So I guess I am missing as to why I should not go to or watch either series or not like both series because of their business model.
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