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Originally Posted by DRC II
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.
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I agree that money buys a lot of the rides at Indy and many of the drivers there have no business being there. On the other hand if you think there isn't any skill at Indy then you and I were watching different versions of this years Indy 500. I thought it was a great race from start to finish and I think a great job has been done to bring fans back to IMS.