Quote Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
No-because for CART's first ten years it merely inherited the ascending state of open wheel racing, and most rules, that USAC had nurtured in the seventies, including road racing that USAC had already resumed.
Bob
I don't think there were any road races from '71 to '76. One in '77. On pressure from road racers in the group, there were three on the schedule in '78. Kind of hard to establish a trend there. Then CART did a maximum of three a year until '83.

USAC's influence graced CART for ten whole years?

Considering it was in the '90's that CART really took off, maybe that wasn't such a good thing.