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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