Originally Posted by Dick Monahan:
Are all of you too young to remember that through the 70s, a USAC owner could not combine points from two cars, so the serious contenders had to run the same car on both surfaces? Then they yielded to the wishes of a few rich owners and allowed two cars to carry the same number and combine the points. It's been downhill since then.
Mr. Monahan has it right. I was just old enought to witness the last of the combo car era as a fan. Anybody who says that a combo car CAN'T work is either too young or too close minded to remember that it already HAS worked. And as I said, we also made it work (for a while) again in the early 2000's with the FFMS.
There is NO QUESTION that a combo car can work. The question is; do we implement this idea as a way to revitalize the pavement? Or, is there a better way? Or, do we just bury it.
One final thought about returning to short tracks. 600 people in the stands at IRP (or whatever the hell you all call it this week) is a recipe for failure. There are many short tracks that, while not thrilled with 600 people, could probably at least try to build on that.
OK I'm done.
