I’d always pick a dirt race over a pavement race, but I’d sure hate to see pavement go away. There are some good pavement tracks that I enjoy going to. I can understand why though with the car counts.

Here’s what I don’t understand… What have they done to try and help the car count? Obviously cost is what keeps the cars away. It just doesn’t seem to me that they have tried any new rules to help costs. If you tried something different and it didn’t work, then pull the plug. I don’t know the rule book in and out, but it doesn’t seem to me that anything new or bold has been tried. Cutting costs doesn’t mean 50 cars are going to all the sudden appear, but there is some good equipment out there that sits idle. About 3 or 4 years ago the counts were around 20-25, which is good for the pavement since there aren’t any local weekly tracks to pick up local cars. Dirt and pavement is always what has made USAC different, hate to see that go. Hope it doesn’t happen.

BTW – What happened to the Gold Crown talk? Haven’t heard a peep on that for a long time…