[mr nobody]

Originally Posted by racephoto1 There is now a dilemma in Champ Dirt Cars. Do you risk running DuQuoin with a car count of approximately 18 cars after the DNF's of yesterday, or do you pull the plug ? My heart says run, but from a financial point of a promoter, this is a tough call.You're given what is at the present time a truly horrible product, and have to TRY to work with it. Unfortunately you don't have much to work with. An organization that seems not to care a bit about the series, low car counts, and mechanical instability in the cars, which also falls back to the organization. This is a tough call. If the contract is already signed, and USAC doesn't like the idea to pull the plug, then maybe they should pay the purse, that way they have equal responsibility in improving the product. As for Bob Sargeant, remember, he is the ONLY person willing to stake his time and money to keep the dirt miles going. I know many people have asked him in the last few months to run the deal on his own, heck he has 4 of the 5 dirt tracks they run on, and is a business partner with the guy who has the fifth one. For his financial interest alone, it seems it wouldn't be a bad idea.Now that he has a successful organization that appears it wants to run them , this just may be the time to do it. As for those of you who swear USAC is the only way, and I know your out there, remember this.PRA is what saved these cars he first time, when USAC went the NASCRAP route, and the Jasons, McCord and Smith saved them with the PRA. It's starting to appear as if someone named Siner just may now have to do the same thing.

There-in lies our potential problem. Siner and Brownare only part time organization runners. They have 40 hours a week jobs. Saving the Silver Crown series would require a massive influx of time and resources (not talking about money) to get it stopped on it's down slope and moving in a positive and healthy direction. It's going to take a strong and devouted leadership and equally strong and devouted fan base to get this series back to what it was even 10 years ago.