Indiana Open Wheel - Letter from Kevin Miller

Originally Posted by miledirt:
When you've got 11 cars that show up IN Indianapolis, 13 at DuQuoin last September... I think you are calling anybody and everybody

... And say what? We like the paint job on your car, we wish you'd come race?
Silver Crown is a complteley different animal, so I'll leave that to the "experts".

After calling and saying, "aww shucks, we'd really like your support at out next race", what the hell else is there to talk about? That alone is not going to get anyone car out of the garage. It isn't the purse, because USAC pays the best (don't even try briniging up raising the purse, not going to happen). They can't say that the 2 (if that?) "Super Teams" aren't going to be there.... Since time began ther have always been some sort of "Super Team" (Can you say Sherman Armstrong).

Bottom line, if they could afford to race, they would be there. In this economy, a lot of people can't justify spending the $ it takes to go racing for the weekend, like they used too.... This is a problem for USAC, NHRA, NASCAR, Indy Car, and local tracks all over the country.
OR, if they were that upset with USAC over other things (not phone calls), and they had the $, they would either race with STARS, IRS, or start their own pavement organization.

Now before you say if they would just call these competitors, and listen to their individulal (and I mean Individual and their personal agendas, and a whole other subject) problems, changes could be made for the future. Maybe. But the point of my response was about someone needing a phone call just to come race.

To take this a step further, I've witnessed first hand these actual phone calls. Owner either wants $, or to tell you their life story. Then, they say yea, "we'll be there", and they don't show up. This is fact, not conjecture..... And that was Silver Crown.