Originally Posted by mac miller:
Actually, some of these guys(I don't recall the busch bros. ever running sc) got to nascar, not from sc, but because they were on real TV every Thurs. night running midgets and sprint cars...... Had usac spent their money getting their drivers back on real TV instead of the new cartoon safety crown jalopies, they would have been 1000% better off. How usac pissed away the Thurs. Night Thunder, I don't know.
If they really wanted to run bumper & fender cars to get their guys to nascar, they should have just resurrected the old USAC stock car series. It was a purty good series and a whole lot better than than the mess they have now.
You're exactly right. That was back when all racers watched every kind of racing they could on TV, dirt, pavement, sprints, midgets, late models. ESPN built their network on USAC races and TNN built theirs on stock cars. Someone was asleep at the wheel not getting them replaced when they moved on.