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Originally Posted by Scott Daloisio Was sitting in the press box and counted 10 series regulars who were not there Saturday night for various reasons, 1.-3. Matt Mitchell, Charles Davis Jr, and Eddie Tafoya Jr. (two regulars and one semi regular) are in Indiana running the sprint car portion of Midget Week. 4. One went to the river. 5. I talked to Jeff Dyer on Thursday night. He had an engine getting repaired but the engine builder was having trouble getting valve springs. The shop told him they would be in on Friday morning. Jeff said if they did not come in he and his son would race lightning sprints with POWRi at Barona. Guess the springs did not come on or did not come in on time as they raced Barona. 6. Austin Grabowski is still waiting for his doctor's clearance after his crash in April. He should be back soon. 7. "Shugah" Shane Sexton's car is not back together after his April crash (he is shooting for July). 8. Not sure why Andrew Sweeney was not there but he is a police officer and may not have been able to get off. 9 & 10. Not sure why Tony Everhart and Gary Marshall were not there. If we had all of them, we would have had 27 cars. But, I know, that is “shoulda,’ couldya,’ wouldya.’ R.J. Johnson comes over when his racing schedule allows, but he had a race yesterday at Casa Grande. Kind of hard to get cars from Arizona on a horsepower track like Perris these days as 410 racing is virtually nonexistent on the local Arizona scene. On top of that with fuel costs nearly doubling the past couple of years, it is a drain on the wallet. People do not travel like they used to (I am talking like back in the 70s 80s and 90s and prior). Having said that with Arizona going dark for the summer in July and August, hopefully some will come over. There is one local guy off the top of my head who has not been here this year who I think plans on coming out. We also had a new guy who was supposed to debut at the May 27th race, but he destroyed a car practicing two nights before the race. He is putting another car together now and hopes to debut it on the 24th at Bakersfield. Paying a bonus to 360s, 305s and iron blocks as Charles suggested has not worked. We have done the 360 bonus deal in the past, but it has not worked. While some show up at the smaller tracks, they seldom show up at The PAS knowing they are probably not going to be competitive. On the steel blocks and 305s, you would probably run into the same thing if any were around. You could probably count how many of them there are around here in your hands.

Thanks for the info Scott. Wasn't too many years ago I saw a good USAC show out in San Tan, I think Windom won. Times changing too fast.