Re: CARTisan CHUMPS strangely silent: Why?

On 04 Dec 2003 01:35:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maelman13) wrote:

>Did you read the whole statement? It looks like OWRS will let it go bankrupt
>and then buy what they need and continue racing. It will cost them less, and
>they could use the extra money they were going to spend on keeping teams. 


Once a CHUMPS lemming, always a CHUMPS lemming, I always say - right
up until the very end.

You just keep right on believing that, Maelman, if it helps you get
through these dark days for CART ahead.

But while you are mulling it over, consider these little tidbits:

What sponsor would want to gamble on a series that went belly-up and
bankrupt, regardless of who bought it?

What track is going to pony up a sanctioning fee to a series that may
not have any teams running in it?

What supplier is going to bet on producing a bunch of stuff for a
series that has such an unsure and rocky outlook?

Who is going to put up the purses?

And most of all, you are forgetting that OWRS stated quite flatly that
they were not going to be able to provide ANY financial assistance to
any teams, and has repeated that statement numerous times.

So, where is the money going to come from for a team?

The lack of sponsorship out there already buried American Spirit and
put them in debt up near a MILLION bucks, and they won a race!

You really think Fittipaldi-Dingman, Coyne, etc. are going to have any
better luck?

But you go ahead and act like the idiot who keeps re-arranging the
deck chairs on the Titanic - right up until the cold, dark water
swirls right around your pointy little head.

And think about this:

Can't you just here Paul Tracy next year:

Tracy: "But I won something! I really did! I won a friggin'
championship!"

Bystander: "What championship?"

Tracy: "The CART championship. Of course CART is bankrupt now and out
of business, but I really did win it - I swear! I beat guys like
Haberfeld, Bourdais, Lavin - oh, never mind."

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAAAAAAAAA!