Rain dates aren't something USAC can simply decree - promoters have to agree to them and rain dates are notorious losers for race tracks, particularly in a day and age where people have very regimented schedules in their lives - as a person who has been involved with the Long Beach Grand Prix said many years ago - "There's no such thing as a "walk up" crowd anymore - today both parents work, kids have more organized activities and people don't just wake up and make a spontaneous decision to spend a couple hundred dollars. " This is an even worse problem now when gas is 4 bucks a gallon. And there is the matter of getting enough help to run an event. Next time look around ask yourself, how many people it truly takes to work at a short track, every gate has a person, someone takes tickets, somebody cooks and sells food, there are scorers, pit stewards, announcers, people who clean up, sell fuel, tires, and now, you have to get them back - and depending when the plug was pulled - pay them twice now. This is not as simple as it seems.