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KO: You’re working for a Silver Crown team right now. Of course three years ago they went to the new style cars for the pavement but now that the older cars are back the car owners aren’t coming out to support it like in the past. What’s causing that? What’s wrong with the Silver Crown series? Not that there is anything particularly wrong, but why aren’t the owners coming out to support it? Maybe you don’t have the answer?
GS: I don’t have a true answer, but I have a feeling. I may be wrong, but this is my opinion and I’m allowed to have this opinion. I feel that for years and years, Silver Crown teams and cars, families, people, they had these cars and they went to the races. It became a way of life. Well the other change came in with the new cars and those cars, the older cars, were yanked away by the new car. Now these people have found a way to fill that void on a weekend of Springfield, on a weekend of DuQuoin, on a weekend of the Hoosier Hundred. They have now got a cottage on the lake. They’ve got a trailer on the lake some place, ball games to go to or they’ve got another way to fill that void. And I think that void is being filled by other items now in the entertainment area. They may go to King’s Island. They may go to the Gulf Shores. They may go to the gambling boat or the casino. Who knows! But I’ve got a theory that the people who have gone away have gotten their feelings hurt by the elimination of their racecars they had a passion for and they found other ways to fill that void for the weekends.
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Couldn't have come up with a better scenario myself. I believe Greg is onto something with that idea. USAC has hurt and screwed over alot of people and seem to not care one bit or take one ounce of concern in right the wrong they have done to people.
Ofcourse I shoud just shut my mouth cause I don't know the whole situation (right Spridge) or maybe the main reason is I m not a member of USAC and have no right to complain unless I am a member. Oh wait, I am a USAC member.
Hmm, guess I do have a reason to complain about things.