RE: Confused....
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>>Hey Steve Johnson, you really don't need to go to Monte
>>Carlo to tell Dave Richards you're not interested, send him
>>a letter and use your travel budget to visit potential
>>series sponsors in the USA.
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>>Jim Culp
>>prorallypix.com
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>I couln't agree more. I'm one of the few idiots who
>actually likes the new direction ProRally is going (the
>whole Spitzner/conspiracy new world order stuff), but that's
>becuz I feel it will help promote American drivers.
Dennis, this sort of bullsheeeeut is exactly what is "der Neu Welts Ordnung" von der Spitzner is all about.
It is a business view, not a sporting view. The business is PROMOTION.
YOU pay (for your car, for prep or equiv work on the car yourself, for gas and doubling of entry fees etc) and who gets the advantage?
Mitsubishi if you do good and free rides here and there for PRDood and Johnson.
Well YOU'RE not getting a free ticket and hotel and food to fly to the UK to schmooze.
The un-discussed part of the imagined "Professionalization" is the larger and larger entourage of Functionaries which somehow need to be flown to be present (and of course housed and fed and gotten around) and their "need" to fly various places to consult or "see how they do it in.....") since the locals, who are entrusted with all the organisation, working with the local authorities, in fact running rallies _essentially_ identical except milage, need the presence of so many extra guys to read the rule book or make decisions which all too often seem inscrutable, if not simply stupid.
That is the new world order you say you support, so send PRDood and Steve Johnson more dues and fees, they probably need to travel to Tahiti to check on the Asian Pacific round there.
I could
>care less if it's attractive to foreign competitors, or run
>up to their standards. This is the sports car club of
>AMERICA, so we should do what's best for us. We've
(WE*VE???) (No, THEY've!)
got TV
>coverage, manufacturer involvement, a spec series on the
>horizon, a growing club/feeder series, all of which will
>help promote American drivers and American rallying. This
>is what the SCCA should be worrying about. Heck, this is
>what we PAY them to worry about. Why do we need to go and
>make it easier the international guys to come buy out our
>series?
Because it is all about the business of promotion, MFGs want to promote their product, you must understand that they supply the bulk of the money for the TV coverage, so it is only natural that they should have a series which is tailor made to their every whim, and those guys from UK and now Finland have proven records and what do they really car what person gets them their big headlines (which in fact nobody uses in any way significant).
Look at CART. All foreign drivers, no interest
>amongst mainstream Americans.
Could it be that it's because it's boring road racing in cars which don't look like cars but more like water bugs?
I've stated before that some
>international drivers in the series are good (lends
>credibility), but they should wanna come here, and they
>should play by our rules.
I say if they are going to score points, then they should RESIDE here.
When I lived in Sweden, I took a Swedish licence, when I lived in France a French Licence, when I did Internationals, an International licence. Agreed.
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>Bottom line, America is the biggest market in the world.
>The FIA needs us way more than we need them. Why
>inconvenience our selves and spend mega dollars, make them
>come to us.
Hey Dennis, ..Re: biggest market in the world
I think the 350 million plus in the European market might make that a market very attractive to MFG especially since most of them buy CARS and not the bloated expensive SUVs that consitute the only profitable market sector in North America.
Also just got back from 3 weeks in Commie Red China where there is a small emerging middle class of around 3-4% of the population, not much in per cent but that in NUMBERS is still 45.5 million.
And in many new markets people are jazzed up about owning cars, and seeing cars and motorsports are new and eciting, ( those Godless Commie Chinese have a round of the Asia Pacific series in Shenquan, Guandong Province, about 2 hours north of Hong Kong ferchristsakes!! How do they have an Asia Pacific Round and we don't with our Highly Professional PRDood at the helm for all these years??) rather than here which they are expected appliances and fashion statements primarily. This might be one reason why there is little interest in supporting rally from US mfgs.
And I think it is insane that SCCA people should be allowed waste funds rather than write a letter or a phone call, it's free vacation!
Shame!
Oh, we already know that doesn't work.
Never mind.
In conclusion re WRC in USA: We're not worthy, we're not ready, we're not really any better positioned than when the SCCA announced they were going to have a WRC event in Colorado, then Cherokee.
Too much promotion and hype, not enough reality.
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>Dennis Martin
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