USAC has a new President / CEO...
 

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No judgement. Don't know him.
But he's got his work cut out to get the three dirt premier divisions going.
Id say almost half of the sprint races last year had no consi's.

Kody Swanson. Couldn't be a better ambassador out there for the crown. Your always going to get honest straight and factual from him.

Kevin Later dude. You may have saved the financial side of the club. But Staab being cut rubbed me wrong. A good deal of the success at and on track came from him. The guys today have grown some things. I'll give them that.

Guess it's a wait and see?

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Charles,

Opinion here, not meant for argument or said as a USAC apologist.

You know the USAC that ‘we’ support is not the bread and butter that makes their world go around or makes them any real funds. It's just a sanctioning moniker per say, and nothing more than that other than insurance and licensing. Heck, USAC probably makes more funds from the Pikes Peak hill climb than they do from all of ‘our’ USAC races combined. Many confuse what USAC really is. ACCUS-FIA is the focal point.

Bob

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I know that and thats why I say he saved it financially. Grew the membership by probably thousands.

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Charles,

What do you or others expect from the new USAC figurehead, Kasey Coler, in respect to the three National oval series? Name me something he can do, that is reasonable to please everyone or advance the three series?

Specifically noting, USAC is not and will never will be ……… WoO sprints, High Limits, WoO DLM or LODLM.

Bob

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Lets see,
Find a way that more non USAC teams would participate
Find a way to fairly compensate tracks for streaming USAC shows.

There may not be a way. IDK.

All I know is I see a end without changes.

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I’d like to know, based on reading this interaction by the two of you, how is it common knowledge that “our” style of racing is not a focus? How you two know that it can never be what HL and WoO are? By reading your conversation, from afar it would lead you to believe Usac circle track is an after thought and anyone who thought it was more doesn’t understand. I agree with you Chuck on your remarks about Staab. In retrospect, after reading the dialogue in this thread, I should have realized after Miller’s hiring that Usac circle track was intended to be second rate at best. I wish I was smart enough to realize this back in ‘07. I’ve been told recently, Miller made it clear that circle track was never to be the priority. How dumb was I to think it could be better, when I should have known it is in decline.
The streaming debate will always be an issue. Depends on how people perceive its benefits. If asking, the first thing above all else for the new guy to do is and always will be, pay more money.

Because the outgoing guy has said in interviews racing is not their focus?

Unpopular opinion, either thr Triple Crown has to go or the three divisions need to be one Championship. Like you have to run well in all three to end up with any substantial point fund monies.

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Asked and answered by kendirt.

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OK, Get rid of the midgets and champs. Go back to sprints only and stop the four or five nights for three or four tracks.

Concentrate on Big venues. 10k min Let the Boss and MSTS fill in those gaps and grow without the big $ teams cherry picking. They should be at tracks like Mansfield, Millstream, Port Knox, Husets, Perris, Stoga for big weekend shows. Sprint week and one other show for IN tracks unless they can put up at least one 20k plus.

Streaming. I was told by a reliable source and the info is one year old that Usac is paid 3k per event. Clearly FLo's paying lot more on these FLO nights and some other HL races.
Flo itself put out that the had over 750k Views for Tulsa Shootout. 14 million social media video views There's real money there. I mean they bought the whole LUCAS LM deal Probably own half of HL. A real partnership with USAC could have a 12k win 1k start reg shows

I don't know nothin. So it's all BS from me. I just want to see Traditional open wheel survive.
What I think I know is that there is Real Money out there with the streaming and the tracks and teams, (The first two things youvneed to have a race in the first place) are getting very little of it.