This is a test now of SCCA integrity. Don't hold your breath
There is a slight difference in this poor guy crashing and dying and our community's recent tragedy and the shameful and stupid debacle which followed and is ongoing with no news from the PAID staff at whereever the PRDood is hiding.
This guy killed himself, his pain is over. 68 years old, long life. RIP.
It would be better COMPARISON, not better event for those poor readers, to review what SCCA did when there was a spectator fatality.
It is obvious that the SCCA is a corrupt and rotten organization essential run by "buddies" who's main qualification is either connections, or knowing nothing (re: hiring der Spitzner way back when he had zero, zip nada niente noll idea what a rally was, and recently seeing a note about the new PR or whatever they call him "being taken to his first ever rally". Can't find somebody WITH specific experience in the sport to work as a PR guy? Or better to get a clean slate who knows nothing of upper managements blunders and lies?
To the rally community:
It is obvious that we are not welcome at SCCA, and aside from some few people with lifetime of imagined prestige from playing at SCCA car racing, nobody I knows gives a rats ass what names is above the number stickers (which curiously in the rest of the whole f***ing world is always sold to the event sponsor, er you know, er promotion, Spitzners original job description, selling the space as "TOP BILLING"*)
Let's leave and form a nationwide Rally only organization modeled on the Canadian example and liase closely with our neighbors both north and south.
What's the point in trying to keep together this broken marriage with SCCA?
It's corrupt, we've been repeatedly screwed with and lied to or told only fragments of the truth in carefully couched terms, and the paid staff is incompetent.
*I bring up this anomoly because it is one of the most obvious ways which the utter and complete incompetence of the PAID staff, and by paid we expect competence, not reports of them flying around schmoozing at WRC rounds, or driving to endanger at events to get to a high rollers flipped car to supervise the placing of tarps to cover up the damage (that in itself illustrates the PRDood priorities, driving like Zimmer who PRD excluded a few months earlier. Should have been fire and charged for the airline tickets and car rental).
In the rest of the world the space at the TOP is always sold as a valuable space to the event sponsor, not the central sanctioning body.
That is hardly of interest to anybody. A little sticker and note in program suffices.
For years, the paid promo dude has fail utterly and miserably to find series sponsors. The TV programs are paid as part of Subarus world wide marketing campaign which they have been persuing for years all over the world, PRdood can hardly take credit for something they were doing elsewhere anyway.
So what's the facit?
Time to start anew.
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
Vive le Prole-le-ralliat
Black Rocket Rally Tires
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