here we go again...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/2008 08:11PM by Eddie Fiorelli.

Lisa Klassen on the same list as Carroll Shelby and Jack Rousch. AARRRGGGHHHH, MY HEAD IS GONNA EXPLODE!!!

Eddie Fiorelli Wrote:
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> here we go again...
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> Edited 1 times. Last edit at Feb 16, 2008 by Eddie
> Fiorelli.

and again (at SS 2/20)

{ ha,ha SS is named SS! - go JVL! }

Roffles. I just got that issue, too. Was wondering if it made it to this thread yet.

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Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero
alterius non sit qui suus esse potest

Haha. I just noticed Rebecca's picture. I wonder what happened to that sheep?

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Grant Hughes

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

from RA propaganda just now:

"
Another team with experience that could be beneficial is Car 40, Mirra / Ockwell. The team has run four winter rallies recently. Mirra was looking forward to his first gravel rally of the Championship; given the conditions, he is glad to have run a few snow rallies recently. As for the weather, Mirra smiled "it's the Canadians, once they sign up, the weather changes."

50 entries and it's all about this new jerkoff again.

Hasn't done shit and never will.
There, I typed it!
Poor Alan, having to endure these boring rides over and over,
he doesn't deserve it.

Dude, it's all about gettin' the XXX Games crowd stoked!

Or something.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

fiasco Wrote:
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> Dude, it's all about gettin' the XXX Games crowd
> stoked!
>
> Or something.
>
> Andrew Steere, 1973
> Lyndeborough, NH
> KB1PJY

Unfortunately I think we are going to see alot more of this BS in the coming years. So much marketing is being pushed on the x games demographic that rally wins will be shuffled aside for the "rally car high jump" "rally car long jump" "rally car dirt drifting" All scored based on style points.

Contests like that which I fully expect to see in the next x games will bring new meaning to the spend to win comments.



Randy I want to see you paint the RS flat black with a big Rally Anarchy on the hood and win some RA events.

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Matt Smith

Racing in glorious black and red

My daily life is a Saab story (sold!)

I'm glad you think I could but I'm just an .86%
Besides, I have no interest in RA(merica).
And I just painted everything White!

randyzimmer Wrote:
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> AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
> GGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
>
> from RA propaganda just now:
>
> "
> Another team with experience that could be
> beneficial is Car 40, Mirra / Ockwell. The team
> has run four winter rallies recently. Mirra was
> looking forward to his first gravel rally of the
> Championship; given the conditions, he is glad to
> have run a few snow rallies recently. As for the
> weather, Mirra smiled "it's the Canadians, once
> they sign up, the weather changes."
>
> 50 entries and it's all about this new jerkoff
> again.
>
> Hasn't done shit and never will.
> There, I typed it!
> Poor Alan, having to endure these boring rides
> over and over,
> he doesn't deserve it.



Just throwing this out there but has anyone stopped to look at who all WMG manages/works for/is involved in the contracting of?

http://www.wmgllc.com/ then management, then click on the different "sports"...
I can't imagine that anyone will be surprised....



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/23/2008 12:07AM by JVLslittlebuddy.

Doivi Clarkinen Wrote:

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> No need to even consider that. Jamie Thomas (PGT
> WRX wagon) won Treeline in 2005 overall, beating
> Blake Yoon (Open WRX) by nearly a minute. Lisa
> Klassen was in that event, finishing 16th O/A, 3rd
> Gp5 and 6th CRS Open2WD. So apparently she
> doesn't have a very good memory. In any case she
> should do better research before making a claim
> like that because Jamie wasn't even the first
> woman to win a rally overall in the USA. Janice
> Damitio won the Divisional Runoffs in Paris Texas
> in 1995 (with Leslie Suddard finishing second
> overall.) I'm not even sure that was the first
> time a woman won a rally overall in the U.S., but
> I think it might be.
>
> Oh by the way, as I just coincidentally mentioned
> in another post on another forum, don't forget the
> greatest quote ever uttered by any rally driver.
> Michele Mouton at the top of the hill after
> winning Pikes Peak. Mind you 'Pikes Peak is Unser
> Mountain' as they say and the good old boys were
> not at all happy about being beat by a woman. So
> Michele Mouton says,(close if not exact quote) "If
> you guys had any real balls you'd race back down
> this mountain!"
>


My mother won a rally overall on her first try back in 83, it was only a little local/regional/whatever event

I thought Lisa's claim was that she was the first to win a "national" since that's what RIM was considered, but I suppose since I haven't finished reading all of the replies that I'm just reposting something that's already been brought up anyway



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2008 11:55PM by 12xalt.

> Just throwing this out there but has anyone
> stopped to look at who all WMG manages/works
> for/is involved in the contracting of?
>
> then management, then click on the different
> "sports"...
> I can't imagine that anyone will be surprised....

Christina Jones rules!

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Grant Hughes

JVLslittlebuddy Wrote:
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> r
>
>
> Just throwing this out there but has anyone
> stopped to look at who all WMG manages/works
> for/is involved in the contracting of?
>
> then management, then click on the different
> "sports"...
> I can't imagine that anyone will be surprised....
>
>
>
> Edited 1 times. Last edit at Feb 23, 2008 by
> JVLslittlebuddy.

POS site with crap flash junk and no skip intro, what shit.
Did you mean this:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 9, 2006 Contact: Rally America Media
Phone: 763-553-2742
E-mail: media@rally-america.com
Website: www.rally-america.com

Rally America Signs Consulting Agreement with WMG

LOS ANGELES, CA and GOLDEN VALLEY, MN -- Rally America, one of the nation’s upcoming auto sport sanctioning bodies, has retained Wasserman Media Group for consulting, management and marketing services. Through the consulting arrangement, Wasserman Media Group’s (WMG) Marketing division will be supporting and building the Rally America brand through strategic planning, media distribution, and unique cross-marketing opportunities across a wide spectrum of action sport platforms. The partnership has already produced several marketing initiatives.

“After only a few weeks into our partnership, WMG is already identifying and activating opportunities,” said J.B. Niday, Managing Director of Rally America. “It has been rewarding to couple our operations expertise with the marketing and strategic planning acumen of a proven firm like Wasserman.” Rally America will run nine national events in 2006, and will feature ESPN X Games winner Travis Pastrana in a factory Subaru of America sponsored entry, along with other nationally and world recognized rally athletes.

“An exciting and emerging property such as Rally America is a perfect fit for our organization,” said Roger Lipker, Senior Vice President, WMG Marketing. “The sport, its athletes, and a growing fan base are all important components we can develop. We are also identifying strategic programs with other WMG clients, and it’s a plan where we will mutually benefit from new opportunities.”

Through its consulting group WMG Marketing specializes in developing customized marketing programs that leverage campaigns and fuse brands with the power, emotion and affinity of sports and entertainment. The consulting group has proven experience in all major sports and new emerging sports, as well as in music and film. The account teams are skilled in evaluation and management of new and existing portfolios including strategic planning and creative and promotional program development and execution.

About Rally America: Rally America assumed management of SCCA ProRally and ClubRally properties in October 2004, and launched an all-new National Championship series in 2005. Rally America racing features modified production cars, racing against the clock, on controlled sections of roads that are usually unpaved and unforgiving. Events can last several days and cover hundreds of miles through rain, snow, day or night. This extreme test of skill, speed and endurance is what makes rally racing one of the world’s most exciting forms of motorsport, and one that is quickly growing in North America.

CONTACT:
Tom Mueller
WMG Marketing
tmueller@wmgllc.com
614.222.2210

Marisa Robbins
WMG Public Relations
mrobbins@wmgllc.com
310.407.0362

Then post what the fuck you're on about instead of some lame link.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

JVL, as we all know/knew, RA signed a contract with WMG in 2006. But since following simple directions wasn't effective I'll spell it out real simple.

It should be no surprise that Mira and Pastrana also happen to be two of their managed "athletes". This information is very publicly available on their website. I intended to post very specific links but since the pages are all flash that wasn't an option, but with regards to those two the "proof" is there on the site.

Additionally, I cannot confirm it in any way at this point in time but I believe they also have contracts for some work with Monster and/or RedBull (remember hearing discussions with some various rally and non rally people but have no articles, links, or other wise with which to verify this point).

It should be no surprise whom we see getting the praise and time in the Press Releases that are put out via WMG/RA. The best way to make sure you get the coverage in RA is to sign with WMG and get sponsors that WMG works for, then it is a win-win-win-win. Some of it is all a little to convienent sometimes...

JVLslittlebuddy Wrote:
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> JVL, as we all know/knew, RA signed a contract
> with WMG in 2006. But since following simple
> directions wasn't effective I'll spell it out real
> simple.

Well some of us with jobs don't spend 100% of our time glued to Webs and don't follow or give a shit about such periperal BS as what managerssome people whore themselves to.
Further, littlebuddy, I said it was some Flash bullshit and I ain't going to spend time fucking with Flash shit to see something you could have simply said Kevin, you vying for the Pete One line-No comment Morris-in-training award?
>
> It should be no surprise that Mira and Pastrana
> also happen to be two of their managed "athletes".
> This information is very publicly available on
> their website. I intended to post very specific
> links but since the pages are all flash that
> wasn't an option, but with regards to those two
> the "proof" is there on the site.
>
> Additionally, I cannot confirm it in any way at
> this point in time but I believe they also have
> contracts for some work with Monster and/or
> RedBull (remember hearing discussions with some
> various rally and non rally people but have no
> articles, links, or other wise with which to
> verify this point).

At's all about "leveraging the synergy of sports and entertainment" blah blah.

>
> It should be no surprise whom we see getting the
> praise and time in the Press Releases that are put
> out via WMG/RA. The best way to make sure you get
> the coverage in RA is to sign with WMG and get
> sponsors that WMG works for, then it is a
> win-win-win-win. Some of it is all a little to
> convienent sometimes...

Kevin, you are talking about the thing that marks American "sports and entertainment" mindset.
It is the heart of what is behind any of the contemptuousness you might get a little glimpse of occasionally in my writing---and what bugs me about your style of writing a bit as well:
The hype is primary, and the hypesters think they are the important piece in the whole puzzle.

When anybody who has ever been round that sort knows they are repellent parasites, hollow and shallow husks of humans, not just air heads, but totally hollow inside.
To call these "Management" types whores would be an insult to the women in that trade.

It is a large part of why Americans are looked at as superficial, and simplistic bumpkins, because as a country, these types of ultra-hype shits dominate EVERYTHING.

And everybody wants to get on the band wagon.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.