Personaly as for Salem I think USAC needs to get with ARCA and tell the track that neither of them are comming back until they put a new surface down. There is only so many cracks that can be covered over

Great schedule. Jason good luck in your new job.

It would be interesting to see a new vs old Silver Crown pavement race.

Here are some fast qualifying times:

Phoenix
OLD – 25.317 (2004)
25.872 (2005)

NEW – 27.518 (2006)
26.094 (2007)

Richmond
OLD – 20.678 (2004)
19.719 (2005)

NEW – 20.887 (2006)
21.108 (2007)

Milwaukee
OLD – 27.997 (2004)
27.808 (2005)

NEW – 28.795 (2006)

IRP
OLD – 21.148 (2004)
21.115 (2005)

NEW – 21.653 (2006)
21.784 (2007)

I'm not sure how close they would be with the same tires, but they definitely look slower!! haha

:thumb::thumb:I'm sure Jason McCord will do a great job.:applaud::applaud:

It's nice to have two guys that don't want to see the old cars go away involved. Question now is, will they be allowed to fit them back in the puzzle down the line? They wouldn't have tried to get PRA up and going if they didn't want to save the old cars.

Will USAC allow the guys to fit them back in.... That to me is the question now.

SprintFan you are right on. I too would love to see LIVE coverage of the event from Manzy! The coverage by racenetwork.tv at the Western World made you feel like you were at the race.

Gang - I hate to tell you this but I don't think the old cars are coming back

Pat,

Very sad indeed.:crying: Also, probably very true!:prafan:

Did the "old car-car owners" spell their on doom?

PRA provided them an option, they did not support the PRA. Everone talks of the 40+ car counts but PRA was only able to draw 16-18 cars per event.Smith and McCord spent 2 yrs. and a boat load of money, yet in the end could only get 16 cars at ORP. YES, there were some loyal owners that tried (Bowman, East,Beach,Banks, Biddle), and those I feel for, but the other 30 or so may have sealed there own fate(I'm sure I missed a few loyal supporters of PRA)!

I just seen some bad news on the Arizona Message board :

I know the Manzanita Speedway was trying to get it LIVE on Internet streamed Tv, but now it looks like USAC has came in and will be putting it on tape-delayed on the VS channel.

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01/22/08 at 12:38 PM #1
I just found out that the second day of the Copper on Dirt will be nationally televised on a tape delay basis. Details to follow.


Steve Dunn
General Manager
Manzanita Speedway