Will owey be the only change at USAC?I heard Jason Smith and Jason McCord are both coming back to USAC next year.Is ther any truth to this.WE all hope Kevin can turn USAC around.Goodluck to all!

Will any of this lead to them not scheduling races against themselves? :idea:

I went to all three nights of the Pa swing. The crowds were large at all three stops. I spoke with 2 of the 3 promoters, and they said USAC was easier to work than anyone had been. I think a lot of that had to do with Greg Staub. I felt they draw better in PA than they do in OH.

Just listening to Kevin on the D.O. show....EXCELLENT ideas....Maketing USAC as a brand is what has not been done....innovative...progressive leadership....awesome....

i like what im hearing from him on DO's show...lets see where this goes...

i really like his idea about how sprint cars need to be marketed, they are a crude sport...these cars run on the edge...if more people really knew how close these cars ran to flipping and how exciting this racing is, they would come out...

more races broad casted on the internet is a great idea

USAC needs this revival

great :dologob: tonight

It would be nice if USAC works out a deal with race/network.tv . I sure like what I saw with the Western World !!

The 1996 DelMar race was one of the most memorable in S.C. History - I was there and it was quite a weekend. There was concours de elegance that featured an incredible array of restored cars - R Ward and Troy Ruttman were the grand marshalls, there was an art and photo auction - T.Q's in a rodeo ground like area (wasn't good - but different. Scott Delosio announced and was a riot - as was Bruce Flanders for the big show)) and then the race itself featured the blown tire on the white flag by Kenny Irwin when he had the title in his hand - crashed into young Ryan Newman, and Jimmy Sills, to the shock of all, won his third title. (Jay Drake won the midget race which made him a winner on the mile in two straight races - he also won at Sacramento) The venue was stunning - but the race was awful. Robbie Flock finished on the podium and the whole front of his car was like it had been sand blasted - and then to start they used this concrete area for a launching pad and I think it cost a ton of money to clean. It was incredible, however, running the S.C. cars at the place that had not seen big open wheel cars since Rex Mays took his last lap.

I paid a visit to the DelMar Fairgrounds in the winter of 1997. What an incredible place. The huge grandstand is absolutely gorgeous, almost like a palace and the surrounding grounds are stunning. The temporary concrete walls were still in place around the track. I walked into the grandstand, sat down and just spent a few minutes taking in the sites. No one was there except the maintenance men but I tried to invision the SC cars racing around on the beautiful mile track. A fantastic facility just off the Pacific Ocean just north of San Diego. I think the late Bing Crosby had something to do with the grounds when it was originally built. Too bad SC racing hasn't continued there.

I visited another historic race track site, the Arizona State Farigrounds in the winter of 1991. I had seen pics of the track and grandstand in some race mags and wanted to see what actually was still there. There it was!! The grandstand! Still there but it didn't look nearly as big as the pics showed it. Maybe it would hold 5,000 people. The mile track is gone but there is still part of it in front of the grandstand where they hold rodeos , demo derbies and motocross. It looked to me like the original guardrail was still in place in front of the grandstand where Elmer George crashed into a bunch of spectators. The former infield is now a parking lot and sitting where the backstctch used to be is an outdated coliseum. Unlike the DelMar grounds, this place needs some updating badly.

The third historic site that I visited was the Michigan State Farigrounds sitting in the middle of a Detroit ghetto. wow... you need an armed bodyguard in that neighborhood. The lady at the entrance wouldn't let me in so I drove around to the back off of 8 Mile Road and found an open gate. I drove in and there was a hint of the mile track. The old condemned grandstand was still there (since demolished), not very big, maybe would hold 3,000 people. A big portion of the infield has been taken over by a commercial Baseball field business... but... apparently when the track was shut down they left the original banking in place because you could see exactly where the track used to be. In fact, if you removed the grass and weeds you could probably race there again. At one point a few years ago, there was a movement to build a paved mile track there but a high dollar neighborhood a mile or so away said the noise would be too much and the mayor and city officals put the clamps on the project.

Don Moore

Don, those stories are depressing me...all i get are the stories about the mile dirt track glory days

Truer words have never been spoken. All you have to do is look at the World of Outlaws. They have an inferior product, as far as the racing is concerned. Yet, are able to charge twice as much to get in to see one of their shows. And people come in droves. What's the major difference between WoO and USAC? IMO, it's that the WoO has an specific image that they market and they always stay on message. And it doesn't stop once the customer comes through the gate. Because once in their seat, customers are guided through their Outlaw experience by a guy that I would put up against any barker that P.T. Barnum ever employed. Mr. Johnnie Gibson. The guy's a genius. The action is much better in the USAC/non-wing type of the sport, but the Outlaws have a much better grasp on showmanship, when it come to the non-racing moments of the show. And I expect bringing in someone who would be considered a non-traditional President of USAC, will go a long way towards getting USAC out of the image rut that they've been in and enable the organization to move in new directions.

Jerry