The intent was to have a destination series where a USAC driver could make a living racing. If I remember right the purses were around $100K. There were no changes for the dirt. Remember also there were no more paved mile tracks in business and the old pavement cars could not run on the mile and a half's. You're way off if you think a series or any series revolved around sending one or two drivers south every 5 years. As far as a pipeline to the 500, forget it, those days are over. Even if a deserving guy like BC gets a ride, it's only one off and a third tier team. Money is everything at the 500, skill, not so much.