Randy
Nitro Member
Jack and I are friends, but it sounds like Bruce is getting thrown under the bus for having an opinion. He didn't post a "rumor."
The incident he is refering to happened in the Crawford and Head TA/FC at a Phoenix test and tune before Jack went for his TF license. It was the car Dennis Taylor used to drive before starting his own team. Jack came along with some financial support and approached Ken Head about driving his car.
According to Ora Vasquez who was tuning the car, Jack tried peddaling it through tire shake and drove it into the wall on the first pass. The car was heavily damaged and Ken Head called it quits shortly thereafter.
I'm sure Jack will tell you TA/FC is the hardest car of all to drive. The school cars probably didn't prepare him for a 5 second car in the midst of tire shake.
Jack has an opportunity and he should take it. But Whit's plight cannot be blamed on Jack. Both are big boys and can stand on their own two feet.
I think the face of drivers is in for a change. The driver is going to need to beat the bushes with professional marketing people to sponsor their desires, rather than waiting on a team owner like Shoe to invite them in as a salaried participant to the party. There's a lot for a team owner to think about when you consider the option of paying from $100K+ for a driver compared to another driver showing up with a suitcase containing $500,000-$1M for the priveledge to do the same. What would you do?
Driver endorsements and sponsorships will rule the day as more and more money is needed to run these cars. Michael Shumacher in Formula One gets millions from companies just to have their name on his driving suit. Guys like Whit and everyone else need to learn the marketing ropes if they want to survive to play another day. Once they find the $$, they can look for a successful organization like DSR to manage their program, just like Evan Knoll does with Ashley, Troxel, etc.
Jack wants this real bad...bad enough to get agressive about it. He is blessed with a personality that can turn a room full of strangers into long lost buddies in 10 seonds flat. He's the kind of guy who'll work hard to find $$ every year of his career just to make a guy like Shoe happy.
Getting lazy and thinking your a fixture in the drivers seat somewhere isn't going to cut it in the long run unless you're married to John Force's daughter. Thousands of people in the grand stands want your job, and you better have something to offer the team owner come contract time that will make him or her think twice about looking elsewhere.
Randall G.
The incident he is refering to happened in the Crawford and Head TA/FC at a Phoenix test and tune before Jack went for his TF license. It was the car Dennis Taylor used to drive before starting his own team. Jack came along with some financial support and approached Ken Head about driving his car.
According to Ora Vasquez who was tuning the car, Jack tried peddaling it through tire shake and drove it into the wall on the first pass. The car was heavily damaged and Ken Head called it quits shortly thereafter.
I'm sure Jack will tell you TA/FC is the hardest car of all to drive. The school cars probably didn't prepare him for a 5 second car in the midst of tire shake.
Jack has an opportunity and he should take it. But Whit's plight cannot be blamed on Jack. Both are big boys and can stand on their own two feet.
I think the face of drivers is in for a change. The driver is going to need to beat the bushes with professional marketing people to sponsor their desires, rather than waiting on a team owner like Shoe to invite them in as a salaried participant to the party. There's a lot for a team owner to think about when you consider the option of paying from $100K+ for a driver compared to another driver showing up with a suitcase containing $500,000-$1M for the priveledge to do the same. What would you do?
Driver endorsements and sponsorships will rule the day as more and more money is needed to run these cars. Michael Shumacher in Formula One gets millions from companies just to have their name on his driving suit. Guys like Whit and everyone else need to learn the marketing ropes if they want to survive to play another day. Once they find the $$, they can look for a successful organization like DSR to manage their program, just like Evan Knoll does with Ashley, Troxel, etc.
Jack wants this real bad...bad enough to get agressive about it. He is blessed with a personality that can turn a room full of strangers into long lost buddies in 10 seonds flat. He's the kind of guy who'll work hard to find $$ every year of his career just to make a guy like Shoe happy.
Getting lazy and thinking your a fixture in the drivers seat somewhere isn't going to cut it in the long run unless you're married to John Force's daughter. Thousands of people in the grand stands want your job, and you better have something to offer the team owner come contract time that will make him or her think twice about looking elsewhere.
Randall G.
