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Kirk Spridgeon · 12/26/07, 5:06 PM

Thanks for ruining the thread, Ryan...

The USAC series are probably rewarding more deserving drivers than anytime in the past decade. The low point likely came in the early 2000s, when Lynn Reid "revived" Dave Darland's career in sprint cars and midgets in 2004 after Dave's dry spell.

These sour grapes posts on here are offensive to me, and I'm sure to those drivers who have worked and raced their asses off to get a shot in top-flight rides (Tracy, Levi, Darland, Bacon, Sweet, Coons, Gardner, Schuerenberg, Swanson, Cottle, etc.). And I think things are getting better...as long as USAC continues to improve and guys can actually earn money racing in USAC, I think this trend will continue. A few kids are out there trying to make a go of it (not unlike any of those names mentioned above), and a few guys are becoming the cornerstones of USAC racing, raising the level of competition even higher each year!

12/26/07, 5:06 PM	#45 Re: Who would you like to see in the last open Wilke-PAK car for the CB?
Kirk Spridgeon Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 802	Thanks for ruining the thread, Ryan... The USAC series are probably rewarding more deserving drivers than anytime in the past decade. The low point likely came in the early 2000s, when Lynn Reid "revived" Dave Darland's career in sprint cars and midgets in 2004 after Dave's dry spell. These sour grapes posts on here are offensive to me, and I'm sure to those drivers who have worked and raced their asses off to get a shot in top-flight rides (Tracy, Levi, Darland, Bacon, Sweet, Coons, Gardner, Schuerenberg, Swanson, Cottle, etc.). And I think things are getting better...as long as USAC continues to improve and guys can actually earn money racing in USAC, I think this trend will continue. A few kids are out there trying to make a go of it (not unlike any of those names mentioned above), and a few guys are becoming the cornerstones of USAC racing, raising the level of competition even higher each year!