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Forgive my ignorance, but I am assuming that instead of the Alley Nationals being an JSCA event it is now becoming a USAC event.

In turn; only USAC members will be able to compete? That doesn't seem like a very sensible situation since there are many areas not under USAC's sanction and in no other USAC division do they not have some sort of allowence(Save for Silver Crown, I am told) for outside competitors to compete.

I can't see them strong-arming people to the point that they will not be able to compete. Now; I am sure you will have to get some sort of Temp. Permit or what have you, but not letting someone compete; I find that hard to believe.

Besides, that would be a good chance for USAC to build good will amongst the .25 community(Really; do they have to be called that? Makes me think of the caliber of a gun or something) and prove skeptics such as myself completely wrong.

Like I told Jason and James, I want to be wrong. Prove me wrong. Show me why my thinking is completely wrong. Show me that you are wanting to provide a place for kids to race and learn how to race properly instead of it being a cash grab for USAC and Hoosier. The term "Career Ladder" and the age groups 5-15 just don't gel together well for me.

USAC should want to be apart of the quarter midgets and it is a good fit, but it is only a good fit if it is done for the right reasons. Selling memberships and tires I would hope would be only a small part of the reasons for doing so.

I encourage anyone who wants to join USAC to do so, because even for me it is something that I look at as something that I am proud of that I was able to be listed as a USAC car owner, but just don't do it blind.