Originally Posted by Pitdad:
......I really hadn't looked at this prior to this thread, but Mr. Ray is right, several of the teams are running both series, and because USAC and POWRi are helping each other out with the scheduling, those teams are competitive in points in both. A quick study of the schedules reveals that of the 40 or so races each has on their respective schedules, only 6 overlap. That's pretty amazing! When I first looked at the Eldora field, I really expected the quick and easy answer to be "well, POWRi scheduled against the 4-Crown, so they siphoned off car count", but that wasn't the case at all.
So maybe that's a lesson that motorsports has learned. Play nice together. Share similar rules where you can be competitive in both series without having to run a complete second car/team. And then, maybe both sanctions can benefit from each other instead of beating each other up. AND, if teams want to run an aggressive schedule, they can run both series and be competitive for season points.
We will agree to disagree on this one. POWRi and USAC are still battling with each other. The fact that there were only 6 conflicts was more due to dumb luck than them working together. In the years past, it has been worst. The race at Angell Park that Ray mentioned with the 18 USAC cars was one of the conflicts with POWRI racing at Lake of the Ozarks.
Also, in the last two years, Sweet Springs tried to run a co-sanctioned event but the POWRi and USAC rules are not exactly the same and a work around was not reached. They ultimately dropped the POWRi sanction.
Finally, as long as POWRi and USAC continue with their current car counts, I do not want to see them change their rules. There is nothing wrong with the national series to have different rules than a regional series. There is nothing wrong with the national series being the cream of the crop. Not everyone can run a World of Outlaw sprint car. Not everyone can run a national midget.