Hmm, I hope you don't think I was being harsh with you Don, I'm just
thinking out loud. I love being on the track, but there's a world of
difference between a test and tune day and a race. Even if it's twelve
people in the bleachers by the chicane, it's still somebody cheering you on.
I've raced in events where there's 40 thousand people rooting me on. I don't
think of myself as an egomaniac, but I liked it. It counted more.
Festival events get carried away, and some don't add enough value for what
they've taken. There's a better way, I'm sure. It's probably not compromise,
it's probably focus. Most of us would kill to run at Goodwood.
Races last twenty minutes, and the last five laps sometimes you're wishing
it would get over. Hanging out in the paddock is a big part of it as are the
parties after (though all to often the food sucks). I'd like to figure out
ways to make the whole thing even better. More track time, more dancing,
drinking, and doing things worthy of regret. More history, more great cars
to look at, the occasionally scantily clad person of the opposite gender
wandering by (or perhaps for a few of you, the same gender...). I'm just
looking for a few perfect days before I kick.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net] On Behalf
Of Bill Babcock
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:25 PM
To: 'Don Marshall'; 'Tony Drews'; fot@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: Future FOT events
Spectators equal money. Spectators equal sponsors. If you want to pay for it
all, that's fine. I'd just as soon add a few bells and whistles to an event
and have it be fun for my wife and friends to come to, and have it not cost
so much, or at least have it donate some serious money to a worthy charity.
If all you want to do is optimize track time you can't do better than
getting together with a dozen friends and renting a track on a Thursday,
then you can really just quietly jack off--and spend all day doing it. I bet
you won't do more than two times a year.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net] On Behalf
Of Don Marshall
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:52 PM
To: 'Tony Drews'; fot@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: Future FOT events
Tony wrote:
<< Not a big spectator event, but I had a great time. Definitely a
possibility for a
more low key event. I'd certainly support that >>
I must be missing something... what's the attraction of a spectator event?
If you're not a vendor or promoter, what's the point of having
spectators? Now, if we could get a couple of them to run naked across
the track in front of Henry to get him to slow down, that might be useful,
but otherwise what good are they? Don
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