Bobby Bennett
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Mac Attack ??
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Not too many companies want 45-50+ drivers representing their products! Sucks but that is reality!
Bullard Anderson
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Always been in the game Joe as far as I remember.
Bullard Anderson
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Research says correct Mike! Good Call.
Since I have some experience in Marketing, it's all about catching the Young to buy your products! Most older people are Brand loyal with just about anything they consume! Which is why advertisers target that 18-24 Demo so hard!
Because you're a Mac fan and won't go if he's not running? or ?
Dubs
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I was thinking about this and thought about the possibility of Cory driving Jim Dunn's FC for a year. It seems that in the past, whoever has brought the most money to the table drives that car. In the comp plus interview, Cory said he was open to driving a FC and had some support from Honeywell if he were to find a ride. The question may be whether or not Cory wants to jump in a ride that's a lot less competitive than he's used to.
Little bit of both Doug. The big show just ain`t floating my boat much anymore and if Cory isn`t driving, that`s just makes it worse. Only made one National last year after decades of hitting at least five.
mick
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no offense, but i am much more concerned about what independents
will put a car on the track for the whole season, for a partial season, than
i am about a given sidelined driver, cory or other.
best of luck to him nonetheless.
replacing 6 nat. events with 6 yankees games?
wow, i wouldn't wish that on my mother-in-law.
will put a car on the track for the whole season, for a partial season, than
i am about a given sidelined driver, cory or other.
best of luck to him nonetheless.
replacing 6 nat. events with 6 yankees games?
wow, i wouldn't wish that on my mother-in-law.
Bullard Anderson
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Kinda along the path as Mike here but I've said before DARN Cory has had a great run. His accomplishments are well above average. He's probably evaded the causuality list a few times before, whereas other drivers were bitten.
I feel for all the Cory diehards who have temporarily (i hope) seen their driver sidelined. In all racing series I'm left with one 1 driver I truly care about his every run down the track. It's tough.
I feel for all the Cory diehards who have temporarily (i hope) seen their driver sidelined. In all racing series I'm left with one 1 driver I truly care about his every run down the track. It's tough.
don't you think the demographic really depends on your "product"???
what if you are a country flush with oil dollars? And your only other industry is tourism? As people age, their lifestyles change and they enter completely new markets that your 18-24 demo would not even consider, Business productivity products, vacation land, retirement planning, long term investment, gambling, leisure vacations, sporting equipment geared to the senior and middle ages, health and aftercare products for their loved ones or themselves for that matter,
Perhaps that's another reason the sponsorship dollars are drying up? they are making the myopic mistake of targeting a thinning youth market? And ignoring the boomers?
I have always hoped one day Cory Mac would capture a championship. Ever since he missed attending that one race in Montreal Quebec. The first time I met him in 1989 iirc, we were parked in the grass in line to get into a points race at Beech Bend in front of him. In a swarm of billions of mosquitoes and no seeums he came up to introduce himself, what a nice guy, and the next day we beat him in TAD after he loaned us a top pulley.
It cant end this way after he came that close and ran so hard over all those years, It just ain't right, But I guess life just aint fair sometimes.
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You must be a Twins fan.replacing 6 nat. events with 6 yankees games?
wow, i wouldn't wish that on my mother-in-law.
mick
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yes, that is true.
al - you're rite........why isn't AARP sponsoring the greek?
rocketman
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Joe has a great point and I'll tell you why. I went to a couple car club meetings to promote our latest car show and get the members to enter their cars. At both meetings which had 40 to 50 people there, the guys that had the rides were 70 percent senior citizens! I felt like I was the youngest in the room and I'm Cory Mac's age.
And while I was at one of the meetings I overheard some of the people there talking about drag racing and a recent trip to Bakersfield. I'm not saying that the other age groups are not important but this one is totally ignored.
That's why we are way off on the demographic-sponsor argument.
And while I was at one of the meetings I overheard some of the people there talking about drag racing and a recent trip to Bakersfield. I'm not saying that the other age groups are not important but this one is totally ignored.
That's why we are way off on the demographic-sponsor argument.
