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There is a few guys who are not commited to either series who might have something to say about that.

Now lol at the podiums.  You will see a different story.

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!

That's possible. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Anthony Macri and Brian Brown. Who else fits in that category?

Good make sure when HL is there you and your pom poms stay home.

So easy to bait!!!

My first thought when all this went down was that this season will be a streamers paradise, local WoO shows will be missing a few familiar drivers and HL is nothing more than a TV show where I live.  I can see that I missed something in my initial assessment.  The social media and message board battles are going to be epic after every race.

One thing I have learned is that whatever I expected to be the story line of the season is usually way off.  Something we didn't think of often becomes the story line that dominates the conversation.  I wonder what that will be?

Stan Meissner

I could care less whether the winner comes from HL or the WoO's. Just so they put on a good race is all I care about. It sucks that the WoO has such control over their cars. That is one thing I have have never liked about the WoO's. These guys race for a living and should be able to race whenever and where ever they want to race.  As for Chris Stepen announcing the modified and late models at tracks that the sprint cars run. I like that. He is and always has been a very good announcer. I don't have to turn the volume down when he announces. 

Nope staying facts. The HL guys in 4 races have more podiums than do the outlaws.

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!

I agree, but there are a lot of Woo homers that think they have the far superior talent over the HL guys.  They are wrong.

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!

Don't let facts get in the way.............................................there are some that are claiming that although the winner of the Gator was an Outlaw, the top 2 points getters through the first 4 races were Outlaws, 4 of the top 7 are Outlaws, and Outlaw drivers won 2 of the first 4 races, somehow they were dominated in those 4 races and their demise in imminent.  

While we're at it, I'm assuming there was at least one Outlaw driver that got extra work area time in at least 1 race...............why haven't we heard about this yet?  (for those that don't understand you can't get too much time in the work area when the rule states a minimum amount of time, and not a maximum----I was hoping we could rehash this again this year as well.........stay tuned)

Nope what I said was look at the podiums.  That tells the story for each night. 

No one wants the demise of the outlaws.  Just want people on here to realize there are very fast cars on the HL tour.

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!

"Just about everyone" I would disagree with. Everyone knows except for maybe a loud minority, that both series has some serious talent and experience. 

And at the end of the season we all can still argue if it makes us feel better, about which series is better, and still will not have a clear answer.

What will be telling to me is what percentage of teams that started in each of their own series will finish the season, and also run season two, and three. 

Season one finishers have incentive to finish in the top (5) b/c of the charter system, which I'm not sure we fully understand how much that'll benefit those teams. Season two, 2025, the top finishing teams not in the 1st years charter will round out (10) total charters, so there's incentive for at least ten teams to complete on a regular basis each season. But will teams after (10) stick around, and will the top (10) teams want to share the revenue with additional teams. 

Lets say theres an one million dollars in revenue, lets call it "profit sharing" that the top ten drivers recieve. If there are 1 - 5 more teams consistently running the HL series and they want in, are the existing 10 charters willing to divide that "profit sharing" with 5 other teams or even one or two other teams. 

Keep It Real

I'm glad you pointed that out!  Most of us on Hoseheads are way too dumb to realize who Brad Sweet, Rico Abreu, Sunshine, and Brent Marks are.  I looked them up.  Turns out, you were 100% correct.  They are very good!   My apologies for not already knowing this.  

This just in: Brad Sweet is good!  I'm shocked he won a race evwn though i read hes a 5 time champ.  (Is that true?) Don't take my word for it-----Strawser pointed it out before anyone knew he had a shot.   And this Rico guy----can't believe he ran up front a couple of times either.  Where's he from?   This Tyler Courtney fellow---has he ever won  a big Outlaw race before---say, a crown jewel?   These guys have come out of nowhere to compete against the Outlaws!  Striking!   

This is America, we don't care about 'podiums'. We care about winning, money, trophies and glory. And also pit lizards.  

Amen.

Brad Sweet has not won 5 High Limit championships! FACT!  You can't handle the truth!!!

Wow, I'm getting kinda nostalgic for junior high again. My team rocks! Your team SUCKS!
 

Am I doing this right?

Did you bring your pom poms?

I found sprint cars after the Posse became the Outlaws rival. I assume much of these same discussions took place then.  Regardless of the brand on the evening I know I will be happy watching sprints cars race because somebody will win and it won't matter who, but I'll be happy!

Fantastic!