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August 20, 2012 at
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August 20, 2012 at
05:51:20 PM by dirtface
USAC might wanna take a good look at the USAC /CRA series and realize how much better the car counts and racing has been vs some of there other series including the national series . Maybe a little more help for the series or the promoters to keep this series growing even stronger.
We need more sprint car racing at our home track.
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August 20, 2012 at
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August 20, 2012 at
09:44:31 PM by KOP
I dont understand with all their resources, why USAC lets their PR department slide off into the abyss like they do. Have you seen some of the recaps of races the last couple of seasons? Some have even slacked off to 3/4 lines of a single paragraph!
The teams that support them by spending endless $$$ and hours upon hours of sweat equity deserve far better.
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August 21, 2012 at
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Seems sometimes USAC can't get out of their own way. For the last 5 years they have not scheduled a National points race against Calistoga's Louie Vermeil Classic on Labor Day weekend. This afforded Damien Gardner and Robert Ballou to come back to California to race. Both were great additions to the program and each have had wins. This year they race in Indiana Saturday night. Nice job National.
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August 21, 2012 at
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LOP - I would argue that the job Lance Jennings does more than suffices in getting the word out nationally on USAC/CRA happenings. You guys are truly blessed to have him promoting your series day-in and day-out
www.stevenblakesley.com
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August 21, 2012 at
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Posted By: stevenblakesley on August 21 2012 at 11:57:13 AM
LOP - I would argue that the job Lance Jennings does more than suffices in getting the word out nationally on USAC/CRA happenings. You guys are truly blessed to have him promoting your series day-in and day-out
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Lance Jennings is a blessing to the sport.
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August 21, 2012 at
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August 21, 2012 at
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Posted By: stevenblakesley on August 21 2012 at 11:57:13 AM
LOP - I would argue that the job Lance Jennings does more than suffices in getting the word out nationally on USAC/CRA happenings. You guys are truly blessed to have him promoting your series day-in and day-out
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So you're saying that all the "national exposure" that USAC was so proudly hawking as a selling point when they came to stay in S California was Lance?
Ya know I love ya Lance, but really?
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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August 21, 2012 at
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MY point was it is too bad the scheduling did not allow for available national folks to run the LVC this year as they have in the past.
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August 21, 2012 at
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USUC. USUC now charges to watch USAC videos on their site. It will be a cold day in hell before I pay. I refuse to pay the NY times for their stuff, and that I would like to read. BTW Naylor dumped USAC because a lot of money went back to Indiana, and he had to pay for too many officials.
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August 22, 2012 at
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Posted By: davemahar on August 21 2012 at 09:05:06 PM
USUC. USUC now charges to watch USAC videos on their site. It will be a cold day in hell before I pay. I refuse to pay the NY times for their stuff, and that I would like to read. BTW Naylor dumped USAC because a lot of money went back to Indiana, and he had to pay for too many officials.
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You can thank Ventura Raceway for the increase of car's in both the USAC WC 360's and USAC/CRA. Thank's to the Agajanian Family for bringing USAC Nat./West. states midget TNGP back to dirt and The PAS ! !
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August 22, 2012 at
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Car counts looked good this past weekend,but how many will travel up the state?
I see a few big guys aren't planning on making the toe.
Car count at Calistoga will be:
20 sprints
14 midgets
...then what?
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August 22, 2012 at
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Posted By: fumanchu on August 22 2012 at 09:47:10 AM
Car counts looked good this past weekend,but how many will travel up the state?
I see a few big guys aren't planning on making the toe.
Car count at Calistoga will be:
20 sprints
14 midgets
...then what?
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The home track of USAC/CRA at Perris has only had 1-2 night's of CRA car's at under 30. The WC 360's are ave. more car's than last year too. If Chris Kearns is "leaving" SMS I vote USAC just runs at The PAS and Rt.66 Motorplex next season only and we the fan's and the team's can reap the rewards of staying "closer to home" for the majority of the USAC/CRA team's and race every other weekend !
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August 22, 2012 at
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Posted By: ImissAscot on August 22 2012 at 08:39:14 PM
The home track of USAC/CRA at Perris has only had 1-2 night's of CRA car's at under 30. The WC 360's are ave. more car's than last year too. If Chris Kearns is "leaving" SMS I vote USAC just runs at The PAS and Rt.66 Motorplex next season only and we the fan's and the team's can reap the rewards of staying "closer to home" for the majority of the USAC/CRA team's and race every other weekend !
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You forgot that point leader Mike Spencer's car is prepared up that way and so Santa Maria is a home track. The Kittle car hails from Santa Maria. The guy that won on Sunday night comes from up that way also.
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August 22, 2012 at
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Posted By: ImissAscot on August 22 2012 at 08:39:14 PM
The home track of USAC/CRA at Perris has only had 1-2 night's of CRA car's at under 30. The WC 360's are ave. more car's than last year too. If Chris Kearns is "leaving" SMS I vote USAC just runs at The PAS and Rt.66 Motorplex next season only and we the fan's and the team's can reap the rewards of staying "closer to home" for the majority of the USAC/CRA team's and race every other weekend !
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How is Perris / Victorville closer to home for most of the WC 360's?
Take a look at the driver roster and their home cities.
SMS, Tulare, Hanford and Bako are much closer to home for the majority of those teams.
Why exclude great racing facilities who have supported that series for decades. (Even though its a new sanction and stuff we know where the cars running in it mostly came from.)
The series is averaging good car counts at the facilities I mentioned, not at the two you mentioned...
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August 22, 2012 at
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Racing at the same track week after week gets old.Just look at Ventura.
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August 22, 2012 at
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Posted By: stevenblakesley on August 21 2012 at 11:57:13 AM
LOP - I would argue that the job Lance Jennings does more than suffices in getting the word out nationally on USAC/CRA happenings. You guys are truly blessed to have him promoting your series day-in and day-out
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Allow me to clarify..........
I was referring to USAC's national site. Lance does an EXCELLENT job! He is as loyal and as dedicated as it gets. Have you seen the paltry shoddy recaps on the national web site? It is down right skimpy. That's what I was alluding to. There are many race fans in the nation that just go to the national site to see recaps and results and what little coverage is there is all they see.
Assuming Lance is the source of USAC obtaining west coast recaps for the national site (and I think they do use his submissions. If not....They Should), you should compare what Lance posts here vs. what little goes on the national board. That is what I meant by the teams (both national and regional) deserve better coverage than what they are getting on the "national" site.
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August 23, 2012 at
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Posted By: harryfan on August 22 2012 at 09:55:29 PM
You forgot that point leader Mike Spencer's car is prepared up that way and so Santa Maria is a home track. The Kittle car hails from Santa Maria. The guy that won on Sunday night comes from up that way also.
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The Kittle car is housed in Torrance. Like I said "most" not all the teams.
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August 23, 2012 at
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Posted By: Buzzard- on August 22 2012 at 10:04:17 PM
How is Perris / Victorville closer to home for most of the WC 360's?
Take a look at the driver roster and their home cities.
SMS, Tulare, Hanford and Bako are much closer to home for the majority of those teams.
Why exclude great racing facilities who have supported that series for decades. (Even though its a new sanction and stuff we know where the cars running in it mostly came from.)
The series is averaging good car counts at the facilities I mentioned, not at the two you mentioned...
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I was thinking USAC/CRA not the WC 360's sorry to not clarify that
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August 23, 2012 at
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Posted By: Beerman on August 22 2012 at 10:11:43 PM
Racing at the same track week after week gets old.Just look at Ventura.
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I'm talking 2 totally different size track's and one even give's 360's a advantage.
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August 23, 2012 at
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The whole point of my original post was that there are more fan's that travel to central Cali track's than So. Cal team's. How many track's this year have had more than 25 410 non wing sprint car's in the pit's ?
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August 23, 2012 at
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Ocean speedway is a great track with huge fan support,but still only 20 to 24 cars total make it.
There's probably only around 10 to 15 reg usac guys, and the rest are locals trying to run without the top on.
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