Indiana Open Wheel - View Single Post - Hamilton no longer with USAC?

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#27 6/15/15 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by mac miller:
Since Hamilton showed up, I got a sense that he was trying to ram "wings" down usac's throat.
Years ago, some west coast usac guy named gary sokola came to Indiana to run the sprint car division. He, immediately, started talking about changing everything to "wings". One night at Eldora, sokola was in the mic booth telling the crowd that the usac sprints would be going to "wings" and got booed out of the place. Earl had to get on the mic to calm the crowd and said that he would be the guy who decided if usac ran "wings" not gary sokola. The crowd cheered Earl and sokola wasn't around long. I think he died of a heart attack a few weeks later. ...usac never went to wings.
Certainly, usac has gone purty far down the drain since kevin miller has been there but, possibly, Hamilton's attempt to push his own little league "wing" sprint car club into usac may not have been going over very well.

Wait Wait Wait!!!! NO NO NO !!!! Please ...if you have to make others think you know something, at least make sh1t up about the living so they can defend themselves....

I was at USAC for Gary's entire career.... Gary did try a few "regional " winged shows at Granite City and a few other places... Gary was the reason for Thursday Night Thunder,... Gary brought pavement sprints back... Gary was part of USAC when it was ran by racers... NOBODY ...NOBODY... had more arguments with Gary than me... NOBODY respected Gary more than me.... He was a RACER!!! He did more for USAC than any other single person... Was he an a$$hole ? Hell yes... Did I love him? Hell Yes!!

Gary made the Hoosier deal and gave all the money back to the racers...Kevin made the Toyota deal and gives nothing to the racers and makes $500,000 per year!!

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