New Sprint Car Series

[Elwood]

Anybody else hear about about the new Sprint Car Series called the National Sprint Car League financed by a lot of Petty Enterprises money?

Apparently alot of good drivers from the World of Outlaws have jumped ship to this league.

What do you guys think, will both series survive or will one give way to the other?

[gave20]

I watched wind tunnel last night and it seems the drivers are in favor of the new series and the reason it was created. With Stewart backing the deal Eldora goes to NSCL leaving knoxville up in the air but will probably follow suite. 12 of the top 18 went to NSCL so with only a hand full of drivers remaining in the WoO's their days are numbered.

[facn8me]

No more WoO. It will be missed. Are they gonna have more rules? I liked the run what ya brung rule. Do you remember the OKC guy that brought out an aluminum, blown 426 hemi. It would fly down the straights just had a hard time slowing it down to turn.

 

P.S. I guess they had to obsolete kinsers 19 championships somehow.

[SilveradoWV]

I think there is room for more than one series, whether WoO makes it or not. Dirt Late Models have went through this for the past few years. Not sure on the order but there was Renegade and Xtreme, Renegade went down. Then there was Xtreme and WoO, Xtreme went down. For whatever reason, a series was folded. At the present time WoO is struggling to keep their "Dirty Dozen" so it doesnt take much for drivers to stray from a series in Dirt Late Models because you can make just as much money running the big shows locally as you can travelling with a series. Right now there is more than one series for Dirt Late Models, at the moment I can think of WoO, NARA, MACS, OSAS, plus many more smaller series' like the Carolina Clash, etc.... So it can be done to have more than one competitive series, maybe it works for DLMs because there are alot more of them than sprint cars, I'm not real sure how many sprints show up for a show.

[Elwood]

Seems to me that there is more LMs than Sprints, but I'm not the most educated person on this subject. So I think that that logic makes sense that LMs may have a better chance of supporting multiple series.

 

As for Knoxville, I read somewhere that they are considering holding an event that will not be affiliated with WoO or NSCL and inviting drivers from both leagues, but I don't think the NSCL drivers were to keen on that idea.

[SilveradoWV]

As for Knoxville, I read somewhere that they are considering holding an event that will not be affiliated with WoO or NSCL and inviting drivers from both leagues, but I don't think the NSCL drivers were to keen on that idea.

 

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I bet an unsanctioned event that pays alot to win and also through the field wont have a low car count no matter what series you are in...That may be the way to go for some tracks that get lost in the sanctioning.

[antig24]

I hope the new series gets a decent TV deal, and all goes good for them. It'll be interesting to see what comes of WoO now.