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Originally Posted by Brickyard
BTW, the nail in the coffin for the dirt slayer was set before CART or Penske were ever involved. As soon as the first rear engine car unloaded that nail was being driven and the lack of drivers preparing themselves for that eventuality drove the nail even further. Rear engines, wings, reintroduction of road courses, and of the course the reintroduction of foreign talent after Europe started to dig itself out of two wars and a depression......as I still say, if a Lawerenceburg, Bloomington, or Terre Haute slayer wants to get in on the action then they need to get themselves off the dirt and into either the European ladder or Mazda Road to Indy.
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Don't forget the swift kick in the teeth a certain controlling sanction administered to anybody who went to the expense, trouble and elbow grease to build a rear engine version of a sprintcar or midget that still fit in the existing parameters of the cars....
BANNED!!!!!!!!!!
Can't have somebody look good on the high banks of Salem while actually learning the way to drive the rear engine stuff at the same time.