Originally Posted by Bill W:
I am also curious as to which "one"? Was it Jac Haudenschild at the Million or one of his other wins sans wing, Steve Kinser at the 4 Crown, Travis Rilat at the UC, Jesse Hockett x2 at Lakeside or one of Frankie Kerr's many beatdowns? Much respect, but I could go on...
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"Most of the big time wingers now will not take the tops off unless they raced non-wing when comming up the ranks or are looking to advance their carrer"
Kinser, Jac, Hewitt ect ect ect.........Are not wing guys or non-wing guys they are simply sprint car drivers from a time when you were forced to run them both and for one reason or another they decised on a winged carrer or a non-wing carrer
Everyone forgets that Rilat tried to run non-winged for a while after the UC and struggled with finished and finding rides and decided on the wing deal after he found a ride and a carrer there
Hockett has moved to non-winged to advance his carrer
Huntly only runs non-wing at Eldora and is one of the guys with tons of laps around that place
Everyone makes a huge deal when a winger takes the lid off but when Mat Neely, Levi Jones, Brady Short, Kevin Brisco ect ect ect put on a lid no-one talks about it.
Just because you are a succesful winger does not mean you will be a succesful non-winger like many people want to belive and the reverse is also true
There are rare guys that can be succesful time after time in both and those are the greats of the sport