REGIONAL RADIO KUDO
Burkster, I heard your interview on (St. Louis radio station) KFNS 590am Saturday (Feb. 2) and thought it was great, entertaining, and informative. Keep up the good work. I couldn't help but notice after your analysis of the fuel classes the interviewer (Gateway employee) tried to segue into something else until you grilled him "what about Pro Stock" which you proceeded to inform him that St. Louis is a hotbed with many chassis builders in the area, and followed up with some great insight.
Can you imagine if you would have tried talking about sportsman racing or better yet bracket racing? It is this attitude that has taken a once top notch weekly bracket race program and turned it into just a run of the mill gamblers race.
How about covering some more local bracket races?
Thanks for letting me get my two cents in.
Tim Foley
Old Monroe, Missouri
KNOCKING KNOLL
Evan Knoll was very wrong for the way he handled his business with his drivers. That certainly was a huge blow to not only NHRA but the drivers more so. I don't feel that these guys deserved that kind of treatment. Shame on you, Evan! Now some of the racers are without a job. You had pulled the plug on these guys without notice. These racers didn't have time to get anything going. They just got slam dunked.
Sincerely,
Kathy Rizzo
Miller Beach, Indiana
EVAN KNOLL TOO
That’s a great idea cheap gas for one year! Now that would jump start the economy more than the $600 check per person.
lol, that dude with the rant had the wrong website! lololol, drinking and typing don’t mix, first timer! I love it. What, Evan isn’t sponsoring cars, teams, tracks, websites anymore? Fill me in JB?
Rick Rzepka
Detroit, Michigan
GETTING CAUGHT UP
I've sort of taken a couple months off, while following the news in the drag racing world. But I have a couple of disparate comments, if I may speak.
First, the effects of the loss of Evan Knoll sponsorships is obviously going to mean parking some teams, perhaps permanently. Sponsors are very difficult to come by, particularly when the U.S. seems headed into an economic downturn or a recession. Look at Erica Enders - she's been looking for a sponsor for nearly a year and is, apparently, still looking. She's intelligent, a good driver, a good spokesperson, exceedingly popular, especially with young teens, and is also quite pretty. So why hasn't she been able to come up with a sponsor? I somehow feel that simply filling a 16-car field may be a problem at some races this year.
My second bit is... dare I hope? That ESPN2 will have replace Paul Page by someone who knows what they're talking about?
My thoughts and prayers are with Doug & Sonnie Herbert now. Burying your children is not something that parents should have to do. Doug was obviously very close to his children as his blogs were full of accounts of the time he spent with them. I know it would kill me to lose my stepdaughter, and I can't imagine losing a child of your own flesh.
Doug, you hang in there. You know that thousands of 'Zilla fans are thinking of you every day.
Steve Graham
Raleigh, North Carolina