Well I said 'I think they were' and was wrong.. Thanks for
correcting me so we know who is who.. Glad to hear they did
a nice job of the film work too ..
Dave Dahlgren
Wester S Potter wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> The production company on the salt at World of Speed was Adrenaline TV. The
> show is on ABC nationally. Doubt you have seen their program but it depends
> more on their "babes" doing extreme sports in bikinis than anything. I
> seriously doubt that they would endanger any of those girls or promote
> anything that might involve the type of thing under discussion. If you want
> to critique their program I have a tape they sent me. They actually did a
> better job of accurately presenting Bonneville racers than most of the TV
> news crews or even Speedvision. She actually listened to what the racers
> said and used their comments for the show. I could tape some of their
> programs for you but they come on at the same time locally as the 10:00
> Sunday evening news which I prefer to watch.
>
> As you personally have asked in the past on other subjects, please get the
> facts/details before making decisions.
>
> Wes Potter
>
> on 2/26/01 12:29 PM, Dave Dahlgren at ddahlgren@snet.net wrote:
>
> > Does not make me happy either, pro or not no one is up for
> > smashing into things.. Best bet is to list what these guys
> > make and let the racers boycott them.. better yet race fans.
> > there must be enough of them otherwise all the companies
> > would not sponsor them for such a huge amount of money..
> > Maybe contact other racer newsgroups and let them know and
> > suggest they boycott also. The worst thing is i think that
> > they were at Bonneville last year i think those are the
> > folks that interviewed Turk and many others..
> > Dave Dahlgren
> >
> > Scott Cowle wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't know if this is appropriate or not for this site but an ad
> >> appeared in Performance racing news ,here in Canada ,for extreme sports
> >> sponsored by Export cigarettes, a division ,I think ,of the Rothmans
>empire.
> >> Anyways the ad said" if you can't smash it into a tree what's the point?"
> >> This to me seems to be really irresponsible advertising and portraits
>racing
> >> and racers as yahoos who don't take safety seriously. I'm sorry if I'm
> >> offending anyone on the list but in light of the tragedy last week it
>really
> >> pissed me off, and I have called the magazine and extreme sports and the
> >> cigarette company and expressed my anger. As racers, professional and
> >> weekend warriors, we need to make sponsors portray our sport as
>competition,
> >> not a death wish.
> >> Scott
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