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To TNR22, not trying to challenge your experiences or anything like that, but I know that Jerry's wife was extremely ill all last winter and I believe she passed away a day or two after the first indoor race in Duquoin and that the next weekend was the swap meet in Indy. I did not witness your meeting with him I'm just stating that he had some personal things going on and that could have played a role in your conversation. Every time I've spoken with Jerry he has been helpful and considerate to me and his behavior as you described seems very out-of-character.
Also the late release of the 2007 schedule I believe was mainly because of Mrs. Tague's illness, as well as the promotion of Lawrenceburg (half the schedule- which is why we get 30-35 cars because of location) changing hands etc...
As far as competition of the series goes... my rookie year 2006 i believe there were 2 or 3 different winners with the top 3 mostly remaining unchanged all season whereas this past year 2007 there were 7 or 8 with the only a weight rule implimented. That's going in the right direction. If we get 25-30 cars a night and 10 of them can win thats a fair fight. Cost wise I've got a ERC 1000cc for sale that ran in the top 5 consistently all year for $8000 with everything I ran going with it, I'm not exactly sure what running a 600 is but I imagine it's around the same. Because the wings, torsion bars, shocks, and chassis don't know the difference between a 600 or 1000.
The AMSA promoted competitive, fair shows all year in an affordable class. The main concern I have with the development of the MMSA is that the car counts will be split. In my opinion if people have a legitimate beef with the AMSA about the purse, rules, whatever it would be better to try to address them within the AMSA and get rules/regulations changed instead of running off and developing a competing series and splitting up the limited number of cars. If the effort of developing the new series went into making the AMSA even better we'd have a damn good mini-sprint series to race in; instead now two good series will struggle to get cars.
The reason im selling my stuff is not because of ******** or anything like that. We are moving to 410s and cant afford both. Believe me, if i could run both I would because i've enjoyed my time with the AMSA. These are just my opinions i hope i didnt piss anybody off, I'm just trying to shed to light on the subject. Thanks for listening.
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