I believe that, with the new regime, we will see that concern. We should know something towards that end come Monday evening.

I wish the folks at USAC, the participants and owners the best during their meeting. No one can wave a magic wand and fix everything but with a lot of hard work and folks from all three areas working together, we can see this happen.

Blake

Got agree with you here Jimmy. I admit I have NO money is open wheel racing outside of that I pay for pit passes to get in and help as I cna the drivers I am friends with. But I love this sport more than life itself and want to see it succeed and grow. I know this isn't a cheap sport and that car owners took a huge gamble buying the new generation cars. Because we aren't sure what will happen to them in years to come starting next year. I just hope that the changes in staff at USAC bring about good changes to the series and club as a whole

My question or "vision" would be for the new generation car to continue to move forward and perhaps the dirt cars and old style pavement cars join together again. I think that keeping the older syle cars on tracks one mile or less would be the way. Keeping the new generation cars on the bigger tracks on NASCAR weekends.
Just curious of the thoughts of Jim P and other owner / drivers on this board.:idea:

Well I guess I got that ball rolling. From my personal standpoint it is frustrating to read what everyone has to say without any financial stake in the outcome knowing how much I personally have invested. Try putting yourself in that place. Maybe I'm so frustrated I finally had to speak out. It's not all about the money with me either, I obviously have great affection for the series or I would't own cars ,take the time to post here and travel great distances to participate. (I live in New York)
As far as fans of the series goes if it wasn't for you there would be no racing anywhere. I commend you for spending your hard earned funds to go to the races when we all know they could be put to better use somewhere else.
Unfortunatly all flights leaving Syracuse to get to Indy are now cancelled and the ones available are overbooked. Big blizzard coming in today. I will try to do conference call with the meeting tomorrow.
I do have an opinion about the format of the series but I will reserve that until after the meeting
I will not apologize to anyone for stating my opinions.
Jim Paternoster

Jim, I can relate to your frustration and I can appriciate all that you throw at it. I guess we all have our thoughts on the way things are run and we are all guilty of being monday morning quarterbacks.
I think the real key of the general state of racing is fan intrest. Sure most of us in this forums are vetren fans owners and drivers we love it and wouldn't go without it. It seems to me wether the world has changed that much or the fact that there are many options for the entertainment dollar results in less new fan intrest on a grass roots leval. If the fans are not there the money won't be there.........Two very important ingidiants for a successful promotion. -Tom Bliss