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#21 6/26/19 11:19 PM

Originally Posted by ThrowbackRacingTeam:
It is a bit disappointing to see that CRA booked against this. Back in the day the best California guys came out to run the Nationals and I'm guessing CRA/ Ascot didn't book against it. Maybe the owners told USAC they weren't coming out either way so why not have a race at home. It's also disappointing to see that they are running their weekly winged 410's with this too. They should offer them points to run in the non-wing program. That would add a few more cars. It seems like Knoxville was almost all in on this but not quite. I'm not sure that's good enough but it is a step in the right direction. Hopefully they have sense enough to prep the track with non-wing racing in mind. What I saw there last Saturday isn't going to cut it. Hard slick in hot laps will not showcase what non-wing cars can do and only make them look slow compared to wing cars. But, I'm sure there are forces there that will want just that so the local program doesn't get upstaged. We'll see. Definitely excited for this rare opportunity to see the non-wing cars at the Mecca of sprint car racing! Putnamville will have them the next week and the week after that and the week after that.......

Ummm I hate to break it to you but CRA is a USAC series so in essence they are running against themselves. Thats not to say that any of them would have come anyway with the exception of Roa who will be coming west for sprintweek. To get them to come would require them to be running for points like they were when they used to have a midwest tour but that was maybe 10-12 cars anyway.

John Hoover

“To whom little is not enough, nothing is enough.” Epicurus

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