RE:Right Idea just five years too soon.
Actually Tom the idea is just wrong period.
The idea is in it's essence this:
Anything can be made into a marketable commodity and then sold, that the thing itself (in our case rally in the woods) is of secondary (or less) importance to the packaging and promotion, how it's pitched or hypped, in short : Presentation.
That word is taught those mediocre talents who have never built anything, raced anything, organised anything with their own effort or money, and these pitch men's stories of the riches and fame waiting to be made on "the next big thing" if only we trust them with things which they have no idea of the nuts and bolts of, the effort involved in just getting even a small rally working, or a club car to the first stage, or what motivates volonteers to at their own expense drive 300 miles to stand in the woods.
They don't care, they have had drilled into their empty skulls that what the series lacks is "an emphasis on presentation".
So they or should we say our beloved promo hype man sends some Resume it SCCA and with it's emphasis on presentation, gets hired, and with some unknown brief, sets about to steal for unknown persons the efforts of quite literally thousands of people, by the now familiar series of debacles and catastrophes.
There has been a lot of people saying that "you can't build something from the top down" and then geniuses who argue that you in fact must, but the real problem is that we have people in an incestuous relationship believing that THEY can build the Series at the editing room control panel.
There is a very interesting article
"TV racing Mantra: SHOW ME the MONEY" about the cost of Pay for airtime TV in a May 2002 I found in an Xratty when cleaning it out for the new happy owner NW rally man Scott Koch, it is worth reading.
I think long sections should be added to this forum.
The route of what Kurt "Einstein" Spitzner has in mind, the key to the grand plan _being to buy TV time_ is a world of lies and BS and manipulation of the same sort of that has seen the rise of Inter-net stocks from venture capitalists (often with no plan, no product, no revenue, no profits), and the now well known phony accounting practices, and the thereby phony stock valuations. They all have the common thread of enormous hype.
The other common thread is we all pay the cost of the bullsheeet which is hypped up in silly bidding wars.
In short however this article shows that we are not in the same league, and for sure the talents and skills of "our berümte und beliebte Leiter" and the cash we have available is pitiful.
Anybody seen the article?
The magazine
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168