thats a great question... the way super dirt week has steadily faded that is a really good question...

I heard last year at State Fair time that Syracuse's days were numbered as a race track. New York State's budget woes may be a temporary saving grace for the fairgrounds track. The money isn't there to implement the changes they want to make that would do away with the fairgrounds race track. We will see what rumors are floating around in another month when the fair runs.

Patti

Hey everyone-
Just wanted to clear up some obvious misconceptions about this race, and the Silver Crown Series as a whole.

The folks at Oswego Speedway do not believe this event will be a success for anyone involved without the involvement of a star, such as we had last year with Kasey Kahne. Kahne was a partner in last year's race, and it was a huge success, but other commitments made it impossible for Kasey to be involved this year.

With this in mind, other solutions were sought out, but it finally had to be decided between Oswego and USAC that this race would be a no-go.

There will be a press release forthcoming from us at USAC. While we were not involved in the promotion of the "Steel Palace Classic," we really hate to see it fall off our schedule. It's been a tough year for the Silver Crown Series in the wake of losing a few key dates, but we have some great things in the works. In addition, we will be announcing the make-up of the postponed "Sumar Classic" at Terre Haute and another event, which is meant to fill out the schedule after the two unfortunate cancellations.

While many of the traditional dates for the Silver Crown Series have been threatened due to many reasons, we have a lot to look forward to as soon as next year for the series. We are working to bring back prestigious events and forge some new ones to give this series the races it deserves. It will never have a robust schedule like our Midget or Sprint Car Series, but a slate of 10-14 races, evenly split between the two surfaces, is our goal. We want those to be legitimate events, however, so simply scheduling races which we do not believe will be successful for all parties involved will not happen....

If you have any questions, feel free to post them here. We will respond to any that hit on key points. Thanks!

USAC Racing

Maybe I have my information wrong, but I believe USAC was promoting the Oswego race.

Patti

Sedalia was mentioned as a possible addition to the schedule, I thought the mile there was history and the half is headed that way.

That was my understanding also. Welcome to the smoke and mirrors show ! LOL
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The Sedalia mile was eliminated a few years ago. If you go to Microsoft virtual earth you can see the race track area from the air. The outline of the mile is still there but that's it. There's a new building where the fourth turn used to be, so I don't think the mile is coming back anytime soon.

Also the Minnisota State Fair paved half mile is mostly still there last time I looked, again checking it on Microsoft VE. Looks like it would take some work to bring that track back to what it was.

The Sacramento Mile promoter died several years ago and that was the end of that race deal. That track is still there. There is also the Fresno CA Fair mile which is a nice track but the grandstand comes very close to the track near the first turn. there are also one or two more mile tracks in CA but I can't put on finger on their names at the moment.

There is also a mile dirt track facility north of Phoenix where the AMA bikes have recently raced. That looks like a very nice track also.

The Ohio State Fair half mile track was bulldozed many years ago and replaced with an indoor multi-purpose building thanks to Gov. Celeste. There were some great 100 lap USAC midget races there on Labor Day during the 60's.

The beautiful Del Mar Fairgrounds mile near San Deigo now has a special race surface designed for horse racing, so that track won't be holding anymore races in the near future.

The San Jose mile and huge grandstand were bulldozed also. Now it's just vacant land and a lot of pissed people that everything was demolished with no future purpose in mind.

I'm also hearing that there's virtually nothing left of the paved auto/horse track mile Chicago Speedway just north of Midway Airport.

Thanks for posting. I appreciate it when rumors start and a "source of information" comes on here and helps us understand. However, with that being said, I noticed something rather obvious. No signature line. Difficult for me to understand why not?