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rockstar5 (Offline)
  #64 5/28/14 9:35 AM
I'm not sure what the rumble has to do with this but as far as the 40 year old cars running outdoors and not being competitive or safe I'll start with this: the cars you speak of are indoor specialized cars. It's not like they are 40 year old cars that they threw some new rubber on and go out and win races. Some of them guys have as much money in them as a new car and as far as safe, I don't think I would want to hit the wall at Winchester in one of them but I've seen some of them knock down the wall and change a front axle and be right back out on the track. That's neither here nor there, I'm not trying to turn this in to a pi**ing match. I want to see open wheel racing survive. I have a young son and as we all hope with our young ones I've got the next Larson. I'm kind of baffled that the 1 or 2 races a year that USAC brings to these tracks are the only reason they are open. These tracks are pretty well full for the weekly shows and there's not much promotion for these races including sprint week/midget week, not at least as far as I see. The fans at these races know what it is and look forward to them. I don't see USAC out promoting these shows. I live in Anderson, Indiana and when Must See is coming to town you know it. Everywhere you look there are flyers. As far as supporting USAC, in 2010 the night before the 500 had 41 cars, 2011 had 34, 2012 had 32, 2013 had 23, and 2014 only had 11. So USAC has had there chance. They don't care about their drivers, they only care about there pockets. I hope open wheel racing survives but I could care less about USAC. Honestly, I'm not sure how you separate the two but it's gonna happen. Whether it's USAC runs it the rest of the way in the ground or one of the other sanctioning bodies picks up the pieces and somehow puts them back together.
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