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Subject: Re: CART Racing in North America....(was "open wheel rant"...by
From: "" <greenman62@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 21:50:13 +0000
>Friends of Triumph,
>
>Yeah, this CART at Road America might have been a problem but......in the
>future.
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>The regular folk of North America need to identify with the drivers...and 
>the
>products they represent.
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>The beer drinking, brawling world of NASCAR have donned tuxedos and are
>putting on the big show. And their drivers & sponsors are.....?
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>Branding: The great unwashed wash with Tide, wear CAT hats, put Interstate
>Batteries in their cars, and ingest Viagara when the occasion needs to 
>arise.
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>I looked at the advertising on the CART cars ....financial institutions,
>large and little known corporations, and "China Air". Huh?
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>We need some more American Heroes, some identifiable sponsorships, and more
>tracks and fans, as found at Road America.
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>Mario Andretti seems to understand.........take your kids to the new  
>Briggs
>and Stratton Carting Facility at Road America.
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>OUR heroes are Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, Carroll Shelby, Mario Andretti, et.
>al.,  but our 'fresh horses' need to be younger. We  need to feed them some
>"Grassroots".
>
>Joe (A)
>

    I think we need to develop an appreciation of motorsports at an early 
age maybe a scolastic carting
    program could be the answer. Over the past month Dave Despain on Speed 
Channel has been talking
   up a "Little League"-like carting program.

    I only hope something like this can catch on. John Surtees and Brian 
Redman alluded to a similar thing
    in the press conferences at the BRIC last month. Only instead of a 
little league like program they
    suggested a scholastic program that would get kids involved in mechanics 
and driving earlier. Their
    contention was that even if the kids didn't "become drivers" they may 
become enthused about
    engineering or design. If nothing else the practical experience of 
racing carts would make better
    drivers by allowing children to make bonehead mistakes in carts without 
deadly results that happen
    when they start to drive cars on the streets.

    Surtees and Redman recommended that to make this program even more of a 
success there should
    be some way to keep the parents' egos out of the picture.

    Greg Petrolati

Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois       1962 TR4 (CT4852L)

That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...






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> > It really couldn't be any more screwed up. You'd think the SCCA would
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brad Eells [mailto:bradlnss@lightspeed.net]
> > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:45 PM
> > To: Friends Of Triumph
> > Subject: Open wheel rant...
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> > Sorry, I know it's the wrong place but...I was absolutely amazed at the
> > debacle that was the CART Road America event. The organization could 
>only
> > come up with something called HD Net for TV coverage and you had to go 
>to
> > a designated sports bar to see the event. 4 sports bars were signed up 
>for
> > the broadcast in California, the nearest was 160 miles from me.
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> > I dutifully listened to the live internet audio broadcast after a 3 hour
> > rain delay (at a road course??). I felt like this was the 1930's. Radio
> > was my only option.
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> > Today I was greeted by an Email from CART.com informing me I could watch
> > the HD Net broadcast on their website. What a joke...looked like a 
>dial-up
> > resolution file. The image was so pixilated you couldn't ID the cars.
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> > I was so mad at being cheated from getting my CART fix again that I 
>wrote
> > an Email to them and...you guessed it, the mailbox is so full, its no
> > longer accepting Email...Hmmm, what could all those people be writing
> > about??
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> > Pretty soon, thanks to Mr. Pook and Mr. George, the only pro open wheel
> > racing left will be shifter carts...
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> > I guess I should just finish my TR4 and then I will have something to do
> > on Sunday besides watching TV.
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> > Well, thanks for listening, I needed to vent, I'm OK now...putting the
> > flame suit on...
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> > Brad

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