[david mitchell]

I have a question for Dustbowl. He raises many good points. I want to ask Dustbowl if he was at the helm of Usac what would his plan be to bring pavement Silver Crown back to where it was in the mid 1990s. Or is Dustbowl saying that basically pavement racing is history.Is there a plan that could be implemented to save it.

[ThrowbackRacingTeam]

Rules can be made to require dirt cars on pavement. You simply don't allow the sort of changes a pavement only car runs. For some reason USAC would rather have it die out than do that. This is probably the last year for any pavement in USAC.

[david mitchell]

throwback racing hits it on the head.Dirt-Pavement-same car. No different parts are needed . USAC has the power to dictate same cars, spec tire, no testing, etc, but it seems they do not want to do anything.Why don't they.

[usac99]

Kevin Miller killed pavement sprint cars and midgets,so why not pavement silver crown?

[dustbowl]

Believing that making a same car dirt- pavement rule would magically repair pavement racing is living in fantasy land. It's not that simple first of all. Today's dirt cars are specialized for dirt. It's not 1990 anymore. They would be so ill handling that you would probably see a bunch of tore up cars and then there wouldn't be any dirt cars for the next dirt race even if people did take them out. There's plenty of pavement only cars out there right now, people choose to let them sit. They can be bought for pennies on the dollar because nobody wants them. They would be much better off focusing on their dirt series, making it bigger. For all intents and purposes, pavement open wheel racing is gone, and there isn't any rule or fix that's going to correct it that's feasible.

[david mitchell]

usac 99 has it right. Instead of saying no special cars on pavement and implementing a tire rule USAC did nothing. That has been their way though. They would rather throw up their hands and say we can't do anything than deal with the situation.

[Jonr]

Originally Posted by david mitchell throwback racing hits it on the head.Dirt-Pavement-same car. No different parts are needed . USAC has the power to dictate same cars, spec tire, no testing, etc, but it seems they do not want to do anything.Why don't they.

.....and then the car count would go to 8 cars a night. You can not force teams to compete. Perhaps the reason that the car count has gone down is because the product is not good?

[david mitchell]

The product was good in 1995 at IRP when they had nearly 50 cars and big crowds. What is the difference.

[racer-x]

What's 2 sets of tires cost? I bet a 4th place finish wouldn't pay the tire bill alone.

[david mitchell]

Restructure the purse so 13th thru 30th get 1000 dollars instead of 700.They could start there.