Hi All,
Figured I'd weigh in, since I wrote the article in question. The people
that have been to nats can see the results of nats in several different
formats: They can sit on the bleachers and watch...hear about it from
friends...read about it in Sports Car...read about it in NAP...and read about
it in our magazine. So...you already know, for the most part who won and
who almost won..and who got stopped for a bit in the impound shed. With
about 6 pages to work with, we decided to put some cool pics in, and give
some descriptions of some of the neat class battles. Next year we'll
probably do another selection of classes.
So, why 6 pages? Because that's what we can fit and still have a
marketable magazine for the newsstand, which, not coincidentally, is
something that SportsCar or NAP do not have to deal with. SportsCar and NAP
are not our competition in the grand scheme of things.
It's somewhat like the threads on team.net that start out with a well-meaning
soul who asks why autocross isn't on Speedvision. This is shortly followed
by a post from Rich Fletcher, Matt Murray or Bob Tunnell about the realities
of marketing such a program. Same concept, different media.
Another reality is that GRM has evolved to the point that we are servicing
many different facets of the amateur racing market. We will continue to have
autocross feature cars, come to nats, build autocross cars..etc...but we
will also do tire tests on road racing cars, WKA Karts, feature IT build ups
and maybe even a BMW CCA car or two.
Now for the gratuitous spam. Want a free sample of most well-rounded
motorsports mag in the industry? email me your address and I'll send you out
a free sample.
Per
GRM
http://www.grassrootsmotorsports.com
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