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Back in the day of Russ Clendenen a USAC driver had to run a certain amount of races an do well before Russ would sign his ticket that would let him go to INDY.
USAC drivers couldn't run any where else, many did and use other names.
That was in the 60's
USAC then used TP's to let other drivers run. USAC controlled sprint cars with their rules. Between the 305 rule, 350 rule, 410 rule and weight adjustment to allow v-6's.
Back in those days you only had one car for dirt and pavement. After a while some folkes began trying offset uprights with the motors lowered. Paul Leffler probally built the best, fastest and good looking of those cars. From the stands you had to look hard to tell it was different.
After a while some folkes played with rear engined sprint cars, the old owners didn't like it and most were POS's and dangerous too. USAC dumped them.
Glen Neibel and the Hoffmans took advantage of the v-6 weight rules and had some very nice pavement only cars. USAC took a lot of the advantage away from the v-6's and most returned to v-8's.
The change to special built pavement cars took over and that was the main ***** about the rear engfine cars. Why own 2 cars, couldn't afford one.
So that's part of the story.
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