Originally Posted by mr nobody:
Yep and they also had at least one Consi race and 40+ cars entered. There were 15 total cars yesterday, 13 took time and 5 or 6 running at the finish. Not exactly a very fair comparison to the "glory days" is it?
Back when Foyt, Unser, Rutherford, et. al. were running they did will to get eighteen cars many years. They never had 40+ entries and they never ran a consi. They qualified and ran the 100 miler. That was it.