1/8/04

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BIKERS SAY THANKS

I personally would like to say thank you for the coverage that you guys gave to us motorcycle drag racers at Rockingham in November...We would like to see more coverage like this in the future. Thank you!!!

Dwayne McKinney

DEDICATED BIKERS

Thank you so much for doing a dragbike article! We seem to be a dedicated little bunch of guy doing a lot of really good work, but it seems to be really, really hard to get any meaningful coverage. A great story like the one you did, in the "online New York Times" of dragracing (DRO!) does more for us than I think you realize. I think M/C dragracing is in about the same state of development that NHRA was in in the early seventies...we got a long way to go, but a little support from guys like you goes a long, long way...It shows the other bike racers that somebody in the dragracing mainstream IS paying notice as to what is going on. 99% of us would really like to get away from the "biker" stereotype, and be noticed for being a pretty intense R and D department. (We got one guy making 650 hp. from a 1300cc Suzuki motor.)

Thanks again for the interest, keep it up!

Tim Rinkerman

SPORTING

Jeff, thanks for being responsive with the article on the Sports Nationals. I think one of the equations you and NPR left out was the increase in spectators when you are able to advertise the impressive et's and speeds fans can expect to see at the race. NPR has two large market areas near the track and at the div. race even though there was two days of

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rain there were many fans there who waited to watch the racing on Sunday by the alky classes. They are paying some exhibition runs that could be used to support the alky payout. This is a real slap in the face to the top sportsman class. All of us feel like an orphan now.

I am a business man myself and have done quit a lot of promoting in the motocross racing. It is never without risk. That is why it is called promoting. It seems that what it has involved to is holding races with no risk. We will never know how much money the promoter (track) would have made if the alky classes were included. The problem NHRA, they should have demanded that all classes be included as a condition for holding this race.

Do you really believe that when the race makes lots of money for NHRA and NPR the alky classes will be included next year? They might look at it as though they don't want to risk a successful formula! Seems to me its like bacon and eggs for breakfast. The chicken is participating, the pig is committed. The purses in the alky classes at national events are meager when compared to the cost of running what is the third quickest and fastest class in NHRA. Enough said.

I like your site.

Bob Holley