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Rat_Fink_67
1,283 posts
75 months
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They made the Rockstar deal look a lot bigger than it actually was to try and tempt more funding out of them in the future.
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37chevy
530 posts
25 months
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To be fair a lot of do that lol!
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Flying Toilet
2,879 posts
80 months
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clausy26 said: Wow change your tampon mate and calm down never said they didnt work hard for it which they obviously did for such a big company to sponsor them was just saying after no real intrest in our sport before theyve come on the scene which is brilliant that sort of sponsor works well in drag racing First of all have some of these; ..... ,,,,, Those are to help with punctuation. Second of all, I have not needed a tampon since a terrible incident with a game of swingball and my nose took the hit. But thank you. Finally, I think you took it a bit personally to be honest, I was more stating that they would of made the first move with regards to Rockstar. I agree that Energy drinks companies and similar do belong with Drag Racing due to it's extreme nature. Problem is when the market is already so saturated will sponsoring a team that may appear on TV for about 10 minutes a year benefit them or the team more?
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Turn7
9,319 posts
90 months
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Cant find the original thread, but it looks like SPR have compromised on the racer tix deal.
Seems fair enough to me, what do you, the Racer think ?
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Rat_Fink_67
1,283 posts
75 months
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I think it's a long shot to expect that other costs won't have to rise in the future to sustain the Pod's berth as one of Europe's better facilities. Entry fees are staying the same, and now they've compromised on the racer tickets too, yet none of the operating costs will have got cheaper. I think it's unrealistic and unfair not to expect the powers that be to have to increase costs sooner rather than later. It's a business after all.
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MotorPsycho
1,077 posts
80 months
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Agree with Lee on that one, compared to everywhere else the Pod is cheap both for entry and spectators (look at the price of Tierp!) and a weekend at Shakey is comparable in cost to the Pod, with no offense to Shakey the facilties and level of racing on offer are a distance apart from what the Pod has.
A very good gesture by SPR in my opinion, but we should also realise how much they already try and keep things reasonable for everyone and the improvements put in constantly.
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Upatdawn
1,058 posts
17 months
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hey, at least we lead the way with road fuel prices.....
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clausy26
147 posts
56 months
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Flying Toilet said: First of all have some of these; ..... ,,,,, Those are to help with punctuation.
Second of all, I have not needed a tampon since a terrible incident with a game of swingball and my nose took the hit. But thank you.
Finally, I think you took it a bit personally to be honest, I was more stating that they would of made the first move with regards to Rockstar.
I agree that Energy drinks companies and similar do belong with Drag Racing due to it's extreme nature. Problem is when the market is already so saturated will sponsoring a team that may appear on TV for about 10 minutes a year benefit them or the team more? agreed i apologize i thought u were coming down on my party and punctuation isn't my strong point so don't be so nasty
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Flying Toilet
2,879 posts
80 months
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Wasn't being nasty, I was just being silly, the whole of my post bar the last paragraph was tongue in cheek.
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dorrisdormouse
60 posts
20 months
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Unfortunately there are a lot of sportsman racers though who are struggling to afford to pay the amount of difference that would have been the case. Over a year your talking of hundreds of pounds - i mean you guys know how much it costs to build and run these cars at each event. For some of us teams with tighter budgets the difference was too much. Im not saying that we should expect that the price doesnt go up, but the size of the rise was the problem - maybe it could have been better split between racers and spectators? Anyway, santa pod looked at the situation and made a very good gesture meeting the race teams half way on this - for which I know I am very gratefull and im sure others are too.
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clausy26
147 posts
56 months
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Flying Toilet said: Wasn't being nasty, I was just being silly, the whole of my post bar the last paragraph was tongue in cheek. I no was messing
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Inlaw
2 posts
17 months
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NIRO LEWY said: As racing season is growing ever closer all the time (thank goodness), who are we going to see at the Pod for the 1st round? IMHO: Team Erbacher Risto Poutiainen Team Andersson Anita Makela Jari Halinen Janne Ahonen Patrick Pers Stig Neergaard Timo Lehtimaki Mikael Kagered -- and maybe Duncan Micallef if he gets his licence done
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NitroChrisUK
218 posts
51 months
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Inlaw said: IMHO:
Team Erbacher
Risto Poutiainen
Team Andersson
Anita Makela
Jari Halinen
Janne Ahonen
Patrick Pers
Stig Neergaard
Timo Lehtimaki
Mikael Kagered
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and maybe Duncan Micallef if he gets his licence done
would agree on that list other Than Timo,I Believe he is running a partial Season This Year. will be interesting to see how Many Cars Stig Brings to the Main Event.
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Jon C
3,103 posts
116 months
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NitroChrisUK said: would agree on that list other Than Timo,I Believe he is running a partial Season This Year.
will be interesting to see how Many Cars Stig Brings to the Main Event. Chris Andrews
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robc3303
231 posts
38 months
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Jon C said: NitroChrisUK said: would agree on that list other Than Timo,I Believe he is running a partial Season This Year.
will be interesting to see how Many Cars Stig Brings to the Main Event. Chris Andrews Yes, does anybody have any information regarding the Chris Andrews operation ? Its always good to have a British contender to cheer on but not heard any news and the season is almost upon us.
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NitroChrisUK
218 posts
51 months
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robc3303 said: Yes, does anybody have any information regarding the Chris Andrews operation ? Its always good to have a British contender to cheer on but not heard any news and the season is almost upon us. https://www.facebook.com/pages/FA-Racing/237824136251429 there is the Facebook page Chris Andrews F&A Team. fairly Regular Updates and pics uploaded now and again. Janne Ahonen's Car will be unveiled for the 1st time at an American Car show in Helsinki this weekend According to their own Facebook page.
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NIRO LEWY
Original Poster
238 posts
48 months
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Says on the Pod site that Chris Andrews will mak his debut at the Main Event, can anybody confirm this?
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Burndown
641 posts
35 months
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NIRO LEWY said: Says on the Pod site that Chris Andrews will mak his debut at the Main Event, can anybody confirm this? Yes you are right, it definately says that on the website.
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MotorPsycho
1,077 posts
80 months
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Pretty sure the Pod website doesn't just make things up, so sounds like pretty good confirmation to me.
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Bowler
818 posts
80 months
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NIRO LEWY said: Says on the Pod site that Chris Andrews will mak his debut at the Main Event, can anybody confirm this? Yes, I can confirm this! He will be there. I know this as a fact...
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