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Originally Posted by Kirk Spridgeon
Honestly, USAC racing SHOULD be exclusive. The thing I like about Supercross or Indy Cars or NASCAR or whatever is that you can't just show up. NASCAR has a great approval process. Chuck Nungester could buy himself a sprint car, show up for his first race, and start on the pole of a heat race with Jon Stanbrough, Dave Darland, and Levi Jones. There needs to be a difference between local shows, KISS shows, MSCS shows, and USAC shows. You're continuing to kill USAC's product if you take away what makes them unique.
The thing I dislike about draw racing is that it depends so much on who you're racing. Some heat races are weaker than regular shows with 20 cars and some heat races are stacked to no end. And I disagree on track conditions. I missed one USAC dirt race last year, and I honestly don't believe that qualifying hurts the track. Tracks are either going to be good or bad, and honestly, qualifying helps to widen out the track a little for heat races.
Honestly, the fields are very stout, and that's the way I like it. Some local guys just aren't up for the competition of a USAC show, and that's fine. But I really don't want to see a format change so the local guys will show up. If guys don't think they can qualify into the heats and race with the top USAC guys, then they probably shouldn't be there....that's why it's great that there are so many races during an Indiana summer.
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I could
not agree
more with these points from Spridge's post. USAC is the
Big Leagues of traditional sprint car racing. To water it down so that it's possible, even likely, that a local field filler can sneak into the feature would be a
big mistake IMO. Seems to me that the locals who run really strong in the weekly shows have been fairly successful in racing their way into the USAC mains. Matt Westfall, Shane Cottle, Kyle Robbins, Jimmy Light, John Memmer, A.J. Anderson come to mind and there are others. Time trials are another exciting sprint car event for me. I am disappointed when they are replaced by a pill draw. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old traditionalist.......and Spridge is a just grumpy young traditionalist......and Bill is just a grumpy middle aged traditionalist. :wink:rolling:wink