Bub Mccool

[cutman]

I can guarantee you one thing, Bloomer won't get much room racing against Bub. No love lost there

[Barbecueboy]

bub no lawsuit scott lawsuit that is a way a pro acts

Lawsuits aren't only for sidewalk surfing faceplanters......sometimes they are even for legit disagreements.

[Centeroff]

Necrosis, I talked to a member of the zero crew tonight and he told me that Durham gives Scott one engine a year and an unnamed sponsor pays for the cost of parts and free labor for the rest. You gotta think that Durham is in the business of selling 50k engines. He has to sponsor the guy that wins because racing is monkey see monkey do. These guys see Scott running up front and they want the same power he has so they go and buy a Durham engine. I'm sure Richards is getting a heluva deal also on the Durham power. If you were getting started in the engine name it would be a good move to give Scott an engine deal because you are gonna sell a ton of engines because of it!

[chupp n bloomer fan]

bub no lawsuit scott lawsuit that is a way a pro acts

What does that make you then?

[Krooser]

Centeroff,

Believe me I know the sponsor thank you drill. I know how important the right words mean in victory lane or during a simple interview.

When I wore a business suit while in track management I negotiated a six figure advertising sponsorship deal for my track with a big Colorado beer company back in '84 only to have one of my track owners screw up the whole deal by inserting wild promises and impossible to meet attendance and sales figures into the final proposal. Three months of my hard work and a $20K commission down the sh*tter because my boss couldn't zip his lip and let me handle the contract signing. I can still smell the exhaust of the corporate jet headed back to Golden with a $100,000 check still in the VP of marketing's briefcase.

A few days later I got a call from the corporate beer guy apologizing for nixing the deal that we had spent so much time negotiating. He said it was a perfect match for his company until those last minute additions were made to the contract. He told me he'd lose his job if he signed his name partnering with someone he couldn't trust to hold up their wild claims and ideas.

Regarding McCool...all I was saying was in this day of wildly high team expenses, $50K motors, $500,000 transporters and precisely worded responses to the media it's refreshing to see a guy like McCool be able to let loose and give his opinion without first clearing it with corporate PR.

The first year Alan Kulwicki had the Hardee's ASA sponsorship his deal required him to make personal appearances at the local Hardee's store to sign autographs and do interviews with the local TV sports shows. Alan asked me to come along and show him the ropes the week before the Capital 300 at Oregon, WI.

Kulwicki was a real introvert... he really wasn't comfortable with crowds and really had to be pushed a bit to warm up to the fans especially the kids. He wasn't stuck up.... just wasn't wired to be the life of the party. We talked a lot about dealing with fans AND sponsors those two days. I told him keep his 'official' words to a minimum but to make small talk with the fans... find a common ground to base a quick friendship on... something like "Gee I had a #43 t shirt just like that when I was a kid" or something similar. He did very well.

After we were done with the Hardee's store visits and the camera's were put away he thanked me for my help. Honestly Alan had all that personality inside of him all the time... but he had an engineer's mind and those mechanical wheels upstairs never quit turning. He just needed a little 'push' to get him headed in the right direction.

The six years i spent doing advertising and PR for the tracks i worked for were what I would call my 'halcyon days'.... having a $100,000 advertising budget, a new Mustang ragtop for a company car and working with some of the finest driver's to ever don a Nomex suit (Earnhardt, Wallace, Martin, Allison, Bonnett, Trickle, Reffner and many others) made going to work everyday pretty easy.

The next several years of running my own joints and dealing with fair boards, p*ssed off neighbors, drought conditions, insurance agents and unreliable employees mellowed some of that enthusiasm. But the thrill of seeing 150 race cars drive into the pits and seeing the parking lot full of cars coming to see a race program that my team and I put together will always be one of the biggest thrills I've had a chance to enjoy in my lifetime.

[GRT62]

The Thrashs own the MSCCS sanction body that sanction the gumbo nationals. They have no affiliation with Greenville Speedway which is actually owned by the county. James Collinger and Wesly Washington the promoters are probably some of the best promoters in the business and both are nice guys but don't take no $hit either.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

The Thrashs own the MSCCS sanction body that sanction the gumbo nationals. They have no affiliation with Greenville Speedway which is actually owned by the county. James Collinger and Wesly Washington the promoters are probably some of the best promoters in the business and both are nice guys but don't take no $hit either.

Thanks 62, I knew the Thrashes are who McCool was pi$$ed at.

[ptown]

I like the guy plus he has the coolest name in all of racing.

[swartzman]

First off the Mccools do not need a sponsor, 2nd Chad is the race promoters son..