The series organizers decided to stop doing it which, as a promoter I get. You get tired of it. You get tired of this. Exact. Conversation happening year after year.
I mean to me, IDGAF if we are USAC or not. What is $75? We need to stop pretending the license cost is an issue. Most of the people here have bikes that cost more than their cars, and trainers that cost more than their fridges. Like someone said on that FB thread, the license is the cost of a tire. We are talking a set of people who will drop $400 for a weekend to go race 200 miles away. Cost, in the NY/NJ area, is not a valid argument based on pretty much every shred of available evidence.
Does USAC offer anything? Who knows. Dave, as
@Kirt mentioned, pretty much offered to save the series a few years ago and he asked us to try it out. So we'll try it out. If it doesn't work for us, then we'll un-try it. Whatever.
I offered to personally vouch for HB to get them an H2H race at Nassau 2 years ago. So y'all didn't even need to have a race to prove you can do it. That offer was not picked up, even after I reached out to the Nassau park rep, several people at Nassau, the owner of HB, and several other HB members. You guys have the team, you have a venue, you have the potential to make it happen. I even had someone from our team agree to design the course. But nothing came of that.
If you want to help make the scene better, get involved.