MOORESVILLE, N.C. — After a full season of watching racing, here are just a few of the things I think I know:

– This year’s battle for the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series championship between 10-time champion Donny Schatz and Brad Sweet has been one of the best. It will likely go down to the final race of the season Nov. 9 at The Dirt Track at Charlotte.

– Gimmicks will bring fans to the track once; great racing will bring them back time after time.

– Watching the NTT IndyCar Series finale from California’s WeatherTech Raceway at Laguna Seca left me wanting more. Watching Josef Newgarden claim the championship while riding around mid-pack seemed somewhat unsatisfying.

– Gio Scelzi and Buddy Kofoid are likely to be the next open-wheel drivers to follow the Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell path toward a future in stock car racing.

– John Force never gets old. He may have turned 70, but he’s just as much fun to watch as he was 30 years ago.

– With the emergence of young stars — Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen — with aggressive racing styles, Formula One races are worth watching.

– Jason Sides will win a lot of races as a World of Outlaws team owner.

– Midget racing is more popular than it’s been in a very long time.

– I’d sure like to see Gio Scelzi, Tyler Courtney or Logan Seavey get a shot to drive a top-notch Indy car.

– Asphalt racers spend entirely too much time practicing and qualifying.

– The National Sprint Car Rankings produced by Gary Spaid and published weekly on SPEED­SPORT.com have been very interesting to follow.

– With NTT IndyCar Series (Josef Newgarden) and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (Dane Cameron and Juan Pablo Montoya) titles already in the bag, Team Penske could make it a single-season hat trick if Ryan Blaney or Joey Logano can bring home the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series crown.

– Aaron Reutzel needs to be on the World of Outlaws tour full time.

– All races at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway should be sanctioned by the National Demolition Derby Ass’n.

– World Racing Group’s addition of the Xtreme DIRTcar Series in the Southeast and special events at New Mexico’s Vado Speedway Park and Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park in January is all about creating live events for DIRTVision.com and the potential revenue those events could generate.

– It will be interesting to see if Christopher Bell, who won the Oct. 13 World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series race at Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway in his own No. 21 sprint car, will put another driver in the car for select events next season.

– We would advise against playing drinking games with the word “aeroscreen” during NBC broadcasts of NTT IndyCar Series events.

– Ralph Sheheen is doing some damn interesting interviews on his podcast, “The Ralph Sheheen Show,” available on SPEEDSPORT.com and from iHeartRadio, Spotify, iTunes and other outlets.

– Longtime Mazda North America Motorsports director John Doonan is an ideal choice to replace the retiring Scott Atherton as president of IMSA. Doonan’s knowledge of how automakers operate should pay huge dividends for the sports car community.

– With the Daytona 200 struggling in recent years, it seems officials made an interesting decision to pair it with the American Flat Track season-opening Daytona TT on March 14, giving bike fans two events in a single day at Daytona Int’l Speedway.

It might be a last-gasp situation for the once prestigious superbike race.