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Jerry and Sam, low car count is one of the rumors flying around Oswego for the cancelletion of the race. I have feared the plug would be pulled on this race all year, as Jerry said the schedule for the week just seemed extremely tight to me travel wise. I knew for a fact Oswego did not have a signed contract as late as the beginning of July, then it seemed like everything fell in place and finally July 16th they started announcing the race at the Big O, the next week Oswego was closed for the Sandusky Hy-Miler, this week is the Mr. Supermodified $10,000 to win race which usually draws a good crowd.
So my question to Mr. Miller would be how do you expect a race to be successful if you only give the track two or three weeks to advertise that race?
My second thought USAC seems to feel they need the Nascar faithful to make a race at Oswego successful, maybe the Nascar stars weren't falling into line as they thought they had secured.
Thirdly and I am sure many of you may not want to hear this, the WoO is racing on Tuesday August 3rd at Fulton, N. Y. less than 15 miles from Oswego; maybe there was a fear the local fans wouldn't support both races. I know one thing for sure having been in Oswego since spring, the WoO race was getting all the hype, advertising and the USAC Silver Crown Race was the best kept secret in town. I have expressed my thoughts on USAC's lack of advertising in the past so I won't go there. I got really excited yesterday when I saw the commercial on IOW that was going to play in the local N. Y. area of Oswego then within about an hour it was gone and so was the race.
As I said earlier I can't wait to see the press release for this cancellation, see what the wording has to say.
Just a suggestion, maybe USAC needs to find a seperate sponsor for the Silver Crown series, run ORP monthly as someone posted in another thread and try to get back to tracks like Richmond, PIR and Oswego with the pavement Silver Crown cars.
Patti
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