Originally Posted by Kevin Miller:
USAC disappointed our fans tonight with the indefinite postponement of a scheduled Indiana Midget Week race at Union County Speedway. The decision was made after numerous safety concerns were raised by our Officials and competitors.
We will not apologize for acting in the best interest of safety for our competitors. The track, which has not held a USAC event in many years, was deemed to have features which could pose harm to our competitors. We regret the decision had to be made on race day. While there will be many excuses and blame to spread around, USAC will take the responsibility.
Changes have already been made which are intended to prevent this situations from occurring.
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Kevin -
You as the CEO and president of USAC, as well as Jason Smith senior vice-president of USAC racing operations, are the responsible individuals for the USAC Midget week night #2 debacle at Union County Speedway. Any and all related culpability pertaining to the debacle lies squarely on your shoulders as you, Jason Smith, or Jason McCord should have check the safety conditions of a,
“track, which has not held a USAC event in many years“, weeks prior to the event. And or at the very least, a ‘safety status’ phone call should have been placed to the current weekly insurer of Union County Speedway. Than at that time, any and all tangible safety related concerns and conditions should have been address, and or repaired, before the first tow rig pulled though the gate. If the track would have been checked prior to the event, like it should have, any and all of this would have been resolved much earlier, not on race day.
As it’s been said time and time again,
“USAC is not in the race promotion business, it is in the race sanctioning body business“. Thus to try and vaguely PR spin the situation, holding a race promoter accountable or negligible, for USAC’s own misguided or indolent sanctioning error, is less than what I’d call acceptable. While a promoter
is responsible for said speedway and it safeness to the competitors as well as the paying fan, the sanctioning body
is responsible for final inspection, scrutiny, and approval. Well before race day.
The above and current type of PR spin
<younger generation target marketing> coming out of USAC might have worked with the general public at Mopar, and with the drifting community - but this isn’t Mopar, and it isn’t the drifting community. The sprint car community psyche works much differently, and I’ll tell you right now, they aren’t buying what your selling, nor will they.
Culpability, and nothing more!