Jesse James learning to race!!!

[thunderstangfan]

Re: Jesse James learning to race!!!

the point is we would like to have EVERYONE on our side...weather you like it or not guys like jesse james and tom cruise have the potential of bringing lots of fan interest.

[r_willy]

Re: Jesse James learning to race!!!

Another brief article: http://tinyurl.com/afcg3k

This gives a taste of the potential audience and mentality if you don't know what Spike TV is all about: http://www.spike.com/

Guess it's a generational thing . . .

[paintboy]

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You people are simply just are NOT getting it! You put too much value on the face and what it brings to the table. It's the "exposure" that the sport needs, and if this little dity brings ONE new fan to the races, RARA will have accomplished it's goal. How about all of you, who claim to love this sport, get behind what RARA is attempting to do, especially in these trying economic times.

Dave

[Hans Oberev]

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I guess if Street Vibrations lets the Hells Angles set up a tent then we should welcome Jesse. Does this mean RARA will have to build another grandstand. Look out Section 3! He does have some redeeming qualities. He had nothing but respect for the masters on one episode when his team of the best of the best in the hotrod world chopped a car. He was totally in awe when he interviewed the master of "The Wheel". And who can forget that piece when he and Ross from the Tonight Show got together!! That was hysterical!! Read his bio on Wikipedia. Just know who you are jumping in bed with.

[r_willy]

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What comes next -- "Pimpin' My P-51"?

[Leo]

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I don't see Jesse as a spokesman, changing this into a brawling, tattoo ridden, silicone babe event. All he is doing is something different on his show (he has stated that he intends to experience every extreme motorsport he can) and if that brings more curiousity to the fans and brings them to Reno then great!
The truth is that Street Vibrations brings far more money into the local economy than the Air Races. The races are way back behind several events including the Rib Cook-off. If the races have more fans, and make more money, they will be more valuble to Reno. Tho for the fans it is all about the planes and the racing, to the businessmen involved in bringing this about it is all about money. RARA may be non-profit but the casinos and hotels are not. If they make a lot of money off of us they will do their damndest to support and protect the event.
I don't care if Bozo the clown supported it (wait, Ray Cote has already done that) as long as it brought new fans and SPONSORS in.
Matbe his involvement, no matter how small, will bring other celebrities into it. The purists may not like it but a couple of big names involved would bring in their fans also. How many of Tom Cruise's fans would come just to see the plane he supports race?

[Hans Oberev]

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Propellerhead, that was funny!
Leo, good points!!
Just a thought to bring the excitement and energy from Stead back to Reno. Why not have the awards ceremony at some venue in Reno?? Kind of like they do in the Olympics. We need coordination with the local restaurants and bars in Reno to tap into this energy. We don't have any official drinking holes! It could be a giant party (celebration). Parading racers through downtown Reno is a little off the hook but we need some effort here in self promotion. The casinos should be rocking this event!! It's the only race of its kind in the world. Reno needs to reinvent itself cuz the gaming industry is hurting right now along with everything else.

[Inverted]

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Ya you guys are right, I agree with you now. What this sport needs is MORE overaged PBR drinking rednecks

[flyingjibus]

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I guess if Street Vibrations lets the Hells Angles set up a tent then we should welcome Jesse. Does this mean RARA will have to build another grandstand. Look out Section 3! He does have some redeeming qualities. He had nothing but respect for the masters on one episode when his team of the best of the best in the hotrod world chopped a car. He was totally in awe when he interviewed the master of "The Wheel". And who can forget that piece when he and Ross from the Tonight Show got together!! That was hysterical!! Read his bio on Wikipedia. Just know who you are jumping in bed with.

Jesse was up in section three last year. I dont think we will need a new grandstand.

[Leo]

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What this sport needs is MORE overaged PBR drinking rednecks

As long as they buy it at the Air Races or downtown! I would just like to see it grow a little and then maybe we will see more enthusiasm downtown other than the occasional "Welcome Air Race Fans" banner.

[Skyracer]

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Propellerhead, that was funny!
Leo, good points!!
Just a thought to bring the excitement and energy from Stead back to Reno. Why not have the awards ceremony at some venue in Reno?? Kind of like they do in the Olympics. We need coordination with the local restaurants and bars in Reno to tap into this energy. We don't have any official drinking holes! It could be a giant party (celebration). Parading racers through downtown Reno is a little off the hook but we need some effort here in self promotion. The casinos should be rocking this event!! It's the only race of its kind in the world. Reno needs to reinvent itself cuz the gaming industry is hurting right now along with everything else.

You mean, make it like it used to be!

[AAFO_WSagar]

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A couple of "us" are very tempted to kill this thread... I don't get some of you guys.

There are threads here and elsewhere that complain that we never get any national publicity out of the media.. then someone makes a movie and all you can talk about is how badly it sucks... even though, the honest efforts of some really good RACE folks went into making a film that would appeal to an entirely new audience..

Someone else decides to take a very popular TV personality and use the RENO races as a backdrop for a show or maybe two..

All you can do is bitch about it.

I'm only citing two of the most recent examples..

If and it's a huge IF, we can ever gain the national and international exposure that would help carry this sport in this "new" century, it's going to take the "Jesse Jame's", the "Pimp my P-51's", dare I say, Paris Hilton's of the world to make it happen!

Wide World of Sports carried the races for years, so did ESPN.. neither proved to widen the audience.

NASCAR is known today world wide, it's an American Icon sport.. yet, it took a movie that all NASCAR fans hated to bring it into the mainstream living room in America.

Sorry folks, this is just how it works in the exposure business. RARA could spend millions they don't have on ads in Time, Life, NBC, ABC, etc etc etc and it would not widen the audience for this sport.. it's going to take people seeing their hero, not necessarily, YOUR hero in a raceplane or working with/on one (can you see Paris working on the Bear for a race week? ) to bring it to any but the die-hard fans who already put butts in seats for RARA's bottom line..

As with the basic rules of this forum, I'm going to ask you to quit trashing the individual you are currently trashing. This message board is open to the world to read and over 3,000 people a day read here.. most, as guest viewers. You do not have to register to view posts.. Maybe even Jesse reads here.. how would YOU feel if you read yourself being trashed for doing what you do?

Maybe he'd even decide to kill the whole episode... how good would that make us feel?

OK.. off my soapbox, but behalf of many, I'm asking that you can the trashing, and please try to look at the bigger picture....

[ebutner]

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Hey Wayne,
How about a reality show "Pimp my Plane." Where they follow the total resoration and or race mods of a P51 to get it race ready and then the race. On national TV... I think that would sell and get people. my .02

Eric

[Hans Oberev]

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Good idea but be careful with your word choice or the plug will get pulled by the czars!

We could have a guy like Jack Roush go through the process of looking inside a Merlin and figuring out what makes it work and at the same time going back and trying to dig up the notes of Dwight Thorn or Mike Barrows but would that be as exciting as watching a tv celebrity appealing to the mainstream? It says something about our culture...sad!! Glam and Glitz rules I guess.

[Skyracer]

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Glam and Glitz rules I guess.

Always has, always will!