Originally Posted by ossuks:
.... The "new generation SC" car was designed to allow speeds at places like Holmstead, Gateway, Fontana, ect.. Those that raced them were extremely compimentary about how they raced. The purses were elevated, the racing was close, given a few years to massage the appearance, and car counts to increase, there was an opportunity that never was allowed to mature..... Did they have a chance to provide the bridge to Indy Car that all openwheel fans were looking for?
While wildly hated on this forum, I always thought that the "new generation" SC cars were a step in the right direction for all of the reasons mentioned above. I find it humorous that people will get on this forum and go on and on about how USAC has no forward thinking and is living in the past. However, when they truly tried something to completely change the future of the sport, they are ridiculed for it. If these cars were successful, USAC would look very different today.
Paul White and Brad Nooffsinger did the testing at Nashville. The cars were very unstable at speed and they did experience wheelspin at the end of the straights(at about 185mph) where the backend wanted to slide down the banking at the corner entry. These cars could not have wall contact at these speeds and survive.
