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So are you feeling like this is the fate of us who are rallyists?
[http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/img/gericault_medusa.jpg]
Maybe, maybe not>
I'm not attacking Doug Havir or his Rally America, but what have I missed in the seeming rush to make Rally America the New Messiah, or Doug the new Bernardo O'Higgins of American rally.
The expertise in organising, and running rallies , of building and running cars, in dealing with the permitting processes with various guberm'nt agencies, rounding up and corralling unruly volunteers, teching cars at events and the lately too often needed ajudication of disputes lies in the hands and minds of all you guys out there who are already doing this, and many of you guys out there have been doing this for more than 20 years.
So while I can see and welcome Rally America stepping in to assist with routine administative functions, like mailing licences and rule books, I think this is an excellent time to broaden and democratize they way the sport is GUIDED and RUN.
Hasn't the preceeding years of inexperienced one man rule been reason enough to be wary of simplistic "Hero' mentality?
Is this what we really need?
[http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/634bg.jpg]
Want some suggestions?
Maybe this is what we need:
[http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/img/delacroix_liberty.jpg]
And for you pervs with minds in the sewer I wasn't suggesting we need more women in the woods with loose tops, although now that you did suggest it I think it is a GOOD idea!
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
Vive le Prole-le-ralliat!
Vive Le Groupe F!
[http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/img/gericault_medusa.jpg]
Maybe, maybe not>
I'm not attacking Doug Havir or his Rally America, but what have I missed in the seeming rush to make Rally America the New Messiah, or Doug the new Bernardo O'Higgins of American rally.
The expertise in organising, and running rallies , of building and running cars, in dealing with the permitting processes with various guberm'nt agencies, rounding up and corralling unruly volunteers, teching cars at events and the lately too often needed ajudication of disputes lies in the hands and minds of all you guys out there who are already doing this, and many of you guys out there have been doing this for more than 20 years.
So while I can see and welcome Rally America stepping in to assist with routine administative functions, like mailing licences and rule books, I think this is an excellent time to broaden and democratize they way the sport is GUIDED and RUN.
Hasn't the preceeding years of inexperienced one man rule been reason enough to be wary of simplistic "Hero' mentality?
Is this what we really need?
[http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/634bg.jpg]
Want some suggestions?
Maybe this is what we need:
[http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/img/delacroix_liberty.jpg]
And for you pervs with minds in the sewer I wasn't suggesting we need more women in the woods with loose tops, although now that you did suggest it I think it is a GOOD idea!
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
Vive le Prole-le-ralliat!
Vive Le Groupe F!