Originally Posted by Pine:
This thread has been bugging me all day, you diehards need to help me out, because I'm missing something here....I get the part about Levi, Clauson, Hines, Darland wanting to get to the IRL $$$$$$$$$. But how is this good for USAC??? How is fast tracking your CHAMPION right out of the Series, good for USAC??? For a Series thats "somewhat" hurting for stars and cars, how is losing your Champ every year, good for USAC???
USAC tried to jump on NASCAR's coat tails and lost. Now they want to give their series Champion to the IRL, I don't get it. It seems to me, USAC would want their Series to be a destination, not a stepping stone (higher purses, better point fund ect.). I'm sure glad that Williams Grove's Champion don't go on the Outlaw tour every year...
Not complaining and not being negative, I just don't understand it....:38:
Agree 100% with what you are saying. I guess my thing is that it's nice that they actually have the opportunity again because they are just as good a driver as many in the series (and much better than the ride buyers). They deserve a chance on the big stage too. That's how I look at it. It would have been cool to see Foyt, Andretti, all of the Unsers, JR, Johncock..etc run dirt their whole career, but their talents belonged on the biggest stage of openwheel racing. I realize it was a different time because sprint cars and IndyCars were similar cars then. Today the cars share nothing in common other than they have 4 wheels. I'd just like to see these guys get a shot at it because they are talented enough to do it.
For their sake, I'd like to see them make the best living they can make. For my sake, I'd like to see them run Indy (maybe a few other ovals) in an IndyCar and run USAC the rest of the time. We'll see where it all leads.
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[QUOTE=bigmojo5;200334]Just a couple of quick thoughts:
There was another sprint driver who ran down at Lawrenceburg who's name I don't recall. QUOTE]
Travis Gregg is who you are thinking of. Won several races in the Sam Schmidt #7 car. I don't think he had the backing to come back the next year so winning races wasn't good enough. That is what is broken with the system right now and needs to be fixed.