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Originally Posted by nonwing
I really don't think we will ever see sprint cars again on a mile. USAC stopped running sprints on mile long tracks after Leon Thickston's son, Jeff was killed coming out of turn four at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
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Maybe sprint cars won't run on dirt miles anymore, but USAC Sprints were still running on the paved miles at Milwaukee, Pikes Peak, and Nazareth up until about 2005. The sprints also ran on the Phoenix mile up until the late 1990s.
I particularly remember the USAC tripleheader at Milwaukee in 2004 with the IndyCar weekend. I believe Bobby East won the sprint portion of the program in the Klatt #5.