Originally Posted by
spectastic
apparently you can get your cat 1 upgrade without the full 35 points now, and instead, petition to USAC, and they'll do it?? it's definitely not something i'd do, but I know of 3 guys who have done it?? one of these guys had like 6 points from crits, and couldn't even hang in a 60 mile road race as a cat 3 last year??? wtf**********
I know of some questionable upgrades, but they were at least close-ish.
That's just sad.
Maybe we can all petition USAC to stop allowing just anyone to be cat 1!