Finally someone posted this race, and it's not the Black and white version that I have seen in race trading circles. Great video quality and nice find!
It's interesting that, more than a decade before NASCAR closed the pits when a caution came out to allow the field to bunch up prior to opening the pits, which they began doing during the 1989 season, USAC ended up doing so, albeit briefly.
Who thought a 150-mile race at Michigan was a good idea when the cars got fast enough so they could do that in well under an hour? Who would pay to go see that?
A good point, but theres a good chance that they werent the only show that day. If i remember correctly, i saw nascar and indy car race there on the same day when i was a kid. Might have been the Firecracker 400, not sure.
@@bduddy55555 During that time, most races outside of the 500’s were double features with USAC stock cars and Indy cars. After USAC ended its stock car series, the ASA series ran the stock car portion of the shorter Michigan event for several years. It wasn’t until the later 80’s that the Indycars became the only “main event” on a given race weekend.
