Don, you are wrong. Those USAC cars (at least KKR, TSR, Kunz, etc.) were not guaranteed to be there until the USAC sanction was added.

And, if you want the truth, the only thing USAC asked ALL YEAR for co-sanctions was to have a USAC purse and to have their race director right alongside POWRi's. That is what you saw this weekend.

Also, the opportunity to have a USAC race against this race was there, but USAC kept knocking on the door to be included at Granite City, even after being turned away multiple times. Luckily, everybody decided to do what was best for the event, and for midget racing as a whole. The USAC tag on this race got it on Speed Report. The USAC tag on this race picked up a few cars, including quite a few of the contenders.

I am usually hard on tracks and sanctioning bodies when they don't get things right. I am the biggest critic of USAC you can find - but I also live in reality and only get on their case when something is their fault. The thing is, I'm not afraid to talk to the players one-on-one. I made sure to know what was going on with this event from the beginning, and I was extremely happy to see it work out so well. I got another opportunity to see the POWRi folks, and the competitors and officials with that group are a lot of fun. The Gundakers have a great track now, and the little things they do are what make them so successful.

I look forward to this getting bigger and better, and I know it will. I also look forward to certain people coming back to reality and looking at things with an objective eye, but I'm not so sure that will ever happen...