Mike Ashley remembers a day when a promoter told him he couldn’t race.
The promoter, Ashley recalled, was Duane Nichols and his United States
Super Circuit presented one of the earliest exhibitions of the Pro
Modified division.
“I called and asked if I could run with them, and he asked, 'Who are
you?'” Ashley recalled. “He told me he had enough cars and didn’t need
me. I told him that even though he wouldn’t let me run I was coming
anyway and I’d just enter the sportsman classes and make his cars look
foolish.”
Ashley's motive for his desire to race with the USSC was simple, he
wanted to race at Old Bridge Raceway Park when the tour came to town.
The opening weekend for the USSC featured an event at Budds Creek, Md.,
on Saturday and Englishtown, N.J., on Sunday.