Got to go with the big events. I like the spectators, the other cars,
heroes of yesteryear bad food and especially drunk old perverted broads
that'll embarass the shorts right off ya that hang out at Sebring. I'll
lock the truck.............Henry Morrison, Albuquerque
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>; "'Don Marshall'" <marshall@nefcom.net>;
"'Tony Drews'" <tony@tonydrews.com>; <fot@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:40 PM
Subject: RE: Future FOT events
> 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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