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August 04, 2012 at
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Posted By: BCI on August 04 2012 at 02:25:51 PM
Clauson and Hines for sure
Darland would of been a question mark and Jones doubtful as the team he is driving for is down on engines.
The funny thing is that the majority of participants are USAC racers and yet USAC gets the blame for "ruining" The Nationals".
Where are the teams from POWRI ? Badger ? RMMA ? ARDC? BCRA? I would say thank God for the USAC participants who made there way to Belleville to try to keep this traditional event afloat while the other series participants well just stayed home.
Part of the challenge that USAC has it has to keep it's Sprint car series competitors happy as the majority of them do not own midget and could really care less about protecting a midget race no matter how important we (midget owners) think it is.
We (sprint car owners) begged USAC to add as many races as they could when they had us on the road to help offset the cost of travel and to their credit they have done just that, what was once a 1 day or 2 races in three day trip to Iowa has now been expanded to 7 races in 9 days including races in NE, MO, IA, and MI.
IF you want to place blame on the demise of Belleville place it on the 100's of midgets that are sitting in the garage this weekend, not on a sanctioning body who's main participants are the ones who are there giving mouth to mouth to the grand ol lady who is on her deathbed.
Sounds like 30 ish cars tonight at Grain Valley and I will bet it will be the saturday night race that everyone will be talking about tomorrow morning if last years event is any indication.
Tim Clauson
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Tim, thanks for bringing some common sense to this discussion. There are scheduling conflicts just about every weekend somewhere, and if we were to cancel this race or that race because it ran up against another race, there wouldn't be many races.
Oh and look what USAC has done to the economy and Gas prices, lol
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August 04, 2012 at
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I wonder why Belleville doesn't hook up with the SMRS midets in Oklahoma.
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August 04, 2012 at
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Posted By: BCI on August 04 2012 at 02:25:51 PM
Clauson and Hines for sure
Darland would of been a question mark and Jones doubtful as the team he is driving for is down on engines.
The funny thing is that the majority of participants are USAC racers and yet USAC gets the blame for "ruining" The Nationals".
Where are the teams from POWRI ? Badger ? RMMA ? ARDC? BCRA? I would say thank God for the USAC participants who made there way to Belleville to try to keep this traditional event afloat while the other series participants well just stayed home.
Part of the challenge that USAC has it has to keep it's Sprint car series competitors happy as the majority of them do not own midget and could really care less about protecting a midget race no matter how important we (midget owners) think it is.
We (sprint car owners) begged USAC to add as many races as they could when they had us on the road to help offset the cost of travel and to their credit they have done just that, what was once a 1 day or 2 races in three day trip to Iowa has now been expanded to 7 races in 9 days including races in NE, MO, IA, and MI.
IF you want to place blame on the demise of Belleville place it on the 100's of midgets that are sitting in the garage this weekend, not on a sanctioning body who's main participants are the ones who are there giving mouth to mouth to the grand ol lady who is on her deathbed.
Sounds like 30 ish cars tonight at Grain Valley and I will bet it will be the saturday night race that everyone will be talking about tomorrow morning if last years event is any indication.
Tim Clauson
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I to agree 100% with your analysis of the situation. If it was USAC's fault I'd have no qualms about saying so, but in this case it's not. Kenny
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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August 05, 2012 at
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Posted By: Rogue-9 on August 04 2012 at 06:17:11 PM
I wonder why Belleville doesn't hook up with the SMRS midets in Oklahoma.
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SMRS no longer exists
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