An good topic this is.

It would be interesting to see the $$$ breakdown as for what a track has to pay out for a USAC show, how much sponsor $$$ USAC brings with them, how much sponsor $$$ the track has to come up with, etc. On one hand the tracks would not have to pay USAC anything to appear. On the other hand, putting it all together would be a bear of a job.

Looking at Ohio Sprint Speed Week, the All Stars run the show there. Races are mid-week. USAC Sprint Week takes the Monday & Tuesday off (at least this year). Seems to me the track with the mid-week spots are at a disadvantage, but then again, it would be interesting to see what they have to pay out for that race vice a Friday or Saturday Night race. Maybe they get a break?

Other tracks have gone without USAC for events and have been successful. Kokomo, for example, packed them in and had a great three day show last year for the Smackdown, and are doing it again. So, yes.... you can draw big w/o USAC, but this example is one track and one place over three days. It isn't scattered across multiple tracks over a week, or so. East Bay's 360 winter races are another example of one track with multiple races over three days with no sanctioning body calling the shots.

To run w/o USAC, someone will have to step up and put it all together - the $$$, the logistics, the sponsors, etc. Perhaps one track owner calling the shots? Then they will have to get the buy-ins from other tracks. Sooner or later one track is going to claim they are getting hosed somehow and then everything seems like it could go sideways from there, IMO. Unless you want to split the pot evenly...? Somehow....?

Pennsylvania Sprint Week runs their sprint week every year w/o a sanctioning body, if I am correct. It would be interesting to see how their system of $$$ works. It seems like a successful platform for them.