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Re: [Fot] FIA blinks first

To: "Robert Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [Fot] FIA blinks first
From: "RACER BUD" <budscars@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:35:03 -0700
Robert Lang..It appears that you are ADDING to my text, rather than 
commenting on/responding to it...i'm sure that is inadvertent, but it sends 
a misrepresentation of my message...
thanks
Racer Bud
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
To: "RACER BUD" <budscars@comcast.net>
Cc: <toodamnfunky@comcast.net>; "Tim Murphy" <timmurph@fastbytes.com>; "fot" 
<fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] FIA blinks first


> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, RACER BUD wrote:
>
>> FI...i have no interest in it anymore..........NASCAR knows how to treat 
>> their fans.....I spent fri-sun at Infineon selling beer to raise money 
>> for charity....Everything about NASCAR is about the fans...
>
> Ummm, not to be too contrary - I think NASCAR is all about the money.
>
> They will not stop until V8's are banned and they've pushed all the 
> "clubs" out of the tracks. In a way, a lot like the Walmart phenomenon.
>
> Case in point - NHMS is now owned by Brunton (or one of those guys) and 
> they've closed the road course (which sucked anyway, but that's not the 
> point). 70% of the track activity is club racing and track days. But 90% 
> of the money comes from NASCAR. Sounds simple on the surface, but the 
> concessions that NASCAR gets to run there is absolute murder on the local 
> clubs - for example NASCAR gets unmuffled for any dates they have, all the 
> other clubs get 100 dba noise. They're talking about making a road course, 
> but as of right now, it's all talk. No action at all (other than closing 
> parts of the track for now and permanently in the future. Note that what 
> they are closing is/was home to one of the oldest racing facilities in the 
> country (formerly Briar Motorsports Park). G-O-N-E.
>
> Try to build a track in east overshoe, nowhere. Unless there's a serous 
> employment deficit, the locals ask first "will NASCAR be using the track"?
>
> That question completely halted negotiations on more than one occasion 
> with my local SCCA region who was/is) trying to purchase land and build a 
> club track.
>
> Money is the only thing that NASCAR is about. And they will act like a 
> good neighbor 'till they can kick you out. And they have really good 
> lawyers. The down-home thing is a sham.
>
>> Racer Bud..
>
> Have a nice day!
> rml
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