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DonMoore10 (Offline)
  #31 8/7/12 11:49 AM
I think for this to work locally it first needs to be approved at a higher level. If you look at who has been showing up for USAC, POWRi and Badger races, you will notice that the events with high car counts are many times a result of interclub exchange. Most of the high car counts in POWRi have been when Badger is added to the event. Same with USAC midget week. Those shows were padded with ARDC teams. The USAC shows at Sun Prairie have bigger car counts since you really have two organizations supplying the cars. This is not the way it used to be. Badger on a good night would have 30-40 cars on the ground. The USAC midget division used to be somewhat independent and would run races against USAC sprint and Silver Crown events and still have an impressive group of cars. For example, Years ago, USAC would run a 100 lap midget race on Labor Day at the Ohio State Fair against a USAC Champ Car race at DuQuoin, IL and both races had full fields of cars. But now we have pseudo type car counts that look impressive but they are really the result of 2 or more organization supporting the event. POWRi seems to be the only organization that can consistently have 20 or more cars but only if the race is within about 80-100 miles of St. Louis. Then you will see a handful of regular POWRi cars plus cars from the region such as Kansas, OK and western Missouri. I have some additional comments about the Montpelier shows but those are for another thread. The conclusion I would draw is that almost every organization currently needs the other to get qa decent car count which is not a very healthy situation.
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