I was kinda with you up until this take. Racing for a living doesn't give you the right to run over a local, but that's usually the attitude (that locals are just cannon fodder).

Now if you want to tell me that Timms shouldn't be out there with USAC National guys, I wouldn't argue that at all. He's young. He's talented. He's got just as good a racing pedigree as any driver, but he is probably a bit over his head running USAC National. But that's USAC's fault for letting every local micro and POWRi guy enter. Sure, it sounded great to have 44 cars sign in the back gate, but the quality of racing wasn't that much better for it. We all seem to want to wax poetically about "the good ol' days", but back in those good old days, USAC didn't let just everyone enter.

Stick to the argument that 24 cars shouldn't have been on an 1/8th mile. I'm with you on that.