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That doesn't count on the west coast, they hate themselves, maybe that's why it's gone from CRA to SCRA to CRA/USAC to Faas next year?
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Interesting thought but uninformed. The original CRA folded because it was no longer the club it used to be. And I make the point to mention club here because the president at the time made autocratic choices with no input from the club membership. He thought he was doing the right thing for the club but in actuality he was killing it. You see, we have the crazy notion that a club means that members actually have the right to vote on who leads the club, rules and other irrational ideas like that. At the end, only two tracks would allow CRA to run with them. Then like now, many people blamed the economy for the low car counts. Guess what? SCRA was formed and the club immediately started running at like 7 different tracks with 2x the car count. After 10 years of that the tracks that made up 75% of the races didn't like dealing with the SCRA president so they met with the former USAC president and a deal was cut to switch the sanctioning allegiance to USAC. The rest of the tracks quickly followed (or were bullied into following). During this period USAC did make a number of what ultimately turned into empty promises which is one of the root causes of the current unrest. Plus, stiffing a popular champion doesn't help either. If USAC hadn't had sold the Koolaid they were selling to the racers, the fight to keep SCRA probably would have lastest longer.
So if 100% of the tracks where the national series ran at locked out USAC in favor of ASCS and the racers continued racing at the same tracks, I guess you could apply some extended logic to say that the teams willingly made the switch from USAC to ASCS.