Originally Posted by dadams17:
I agree with many points everyone has said here. Expenses are the biggest reason it is hard for many of us to travel around and hit up these races. I love racing just as much as anyone on here and probably more but why would I want to try and race my car 7 times a year and lose an average of 2k atleast each night. It is impossible to forward your career with that amount of races so it makes no sense in blowing money like that on a hobby. I'll go buy a go-kart if I want to spend money on racing and race it every weekend and have a blast. Racing is racing, it does not matter what kind of car you are in in my opinion.
With that said, if the expenses are not going to come down, why not raise the purse? USAC has been paying 5k to win since my father was racing in the mid 90's. If you want to see the best sprint car race in the world go watch the Little 500. Not only is it the best race by far, it also pays 25k to win. How about 10 or 12 of those a year? Anderson, ORP, Mansfield, Toledo, Irwindale, Richmond, Iowa, Bristol?, and a few other nice tracks around the country. I think you'd have one hell of a series. The Little 5 had around 45 cars this year, sanction it by USAC and bring the other few from there and 50 cars at each of these tracks with 33 cars starting will be the biggest pavement racing going. Then combine it with all 3 series and have a separate dirt series for each. Pavement champion plus dirt champion equals your national crown champion. Perfect stepping stone into Indycars which is where every openwheel driver should have a goal of being.
This is just a dream of mine and if no one jumps on it, when I get enough knowledge and experience at a business standpoint I'll do it. USAC needs to get back to it's roots and bring openwheel racing back to life. We want to win the Indy 500, not a TORC series race. Don't give up on it, work on it and bring it back to where it should be, used to be, and better than ever.
Donnie Adams 
i got your back donnie. I agree.
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