Originally Posted by sc96:
The GoldCrown series was started because the SilverCrown series was and is in trouble(They have lost Richmond,Phoenix,Milwaukie,Gateway,Memphis,Colorad o) The GC cars were built so we could go to larger race tracks which would have added more places we could run(Darlington,Homestead,Chicagoland,Kentucky Speedway,Kansas,) And in time could have added the 2 mile tracks. As of today the Pavement cars are running IRP, Iowa and I think Oswego. I truly hope they get other tracks signed for pavement because 3 races on pavement is not worth owning a car.
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One thing you need to remember is all those guys had at least 1 mile pavement experience and as of now USAC has 0 1 mile pavement tracks.
Correction: The Gold Crown series (version 2) was started within the last year to give the owners of these now bastardized cars a place to run them so the $85,000 loss the ensued will be easier to deal with. They were initially called the New Generation Silver Crown cars and forced out the original pavement cars into the now defunct PRA Big Car series.
Now if we go back into the history books we see the Gold Crown seires was tried before and guee what: It was a failure then and it will be a failure once again. This is definately not the right economic conditions to be starting something like this.