I dont think USAC was paying the promotors to run the New Gen cars! I do know NASCAR was paying out part of the purse though. And the tracks that NASCAR was paying out on you could not run the old sc cars on anyway. Also USAC is not spending one dime of their money on the GoldCrown series. The Gold Crown series as it stands now is being funded privately all the R&D for the new bodies road course testing and other changes are not on USAC"s dime. As long as USAC continues to drop races in the sc div that div will die off. I just hope things change to where they can book more races for this div so it can grow again.