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4/20/13, 1:13 PM   #13
Re: Eldora cancelled for tonight
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Originally Posted by Duke Cook Jr. View Post
Look Up In the Grandstand and it very easy to understand why. No people, Earl didn't have to hit a home run on every race. And USAC doesn't draw enough people to waste a date, and have all this professional key board operators, talk smack on how they could do it better. Eldora is a business that has to pay a lot of people Earl didn't.
Actually, I do not disagree with some of your analysis. However, this is a bit like the old chicken or egg metaphor. Perhaps, some motivational promotion, as in the Baltes era); i.e. some major events, etc. USAC certainly is not blameless, but the scheduling philosophy of the track seems pretty clear. Apparently the O'Connors, Rudisells and other ISW promoters seem to recognize this, but in today's world stops at Western Ohio border.
 
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