I believe that too. It obviously would cost multi-millions to prepare any of the fairgrounds mile dirt tracks for a race of the magnitude of even a truck race with garage areas and pit road, etc. It's truly amazing that the mile dirts were a part of the championship trail all the way up until 1970 given the facilities, or lack thereof.

I'm sure most of you know Earl Baltes built a dirt mile Southeast of the half mile back in the early 1970's that never was raced upon. It's has been rumored that some guys took a few hot laps on it, and Earl was quoted in Open Wheel that he could have it up and running in a matter of a couple of months. If ever there was a chance to have a really big time race held on a big dirt track it would have been there. He would have had the facilities necessary to accommodate. Wish he would have finished and used it.