What Happened to COPART
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vegasnitro
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In my experience, it is usually 10-1 positive to negative. It's just that the negative stories get shouted the loudest, or those stories get told the most. Think about it, the story "I went to the pits and got an autograph and had a pleasant experience" is just not as exciting or salicious as "I went to his pits and he blew me off and ignored my kid". I always had positive experiences with the Bernsteins. Some people haven't, but that doesn't mean they are the jerks they are being portrayed as in this thread. I will simply say again, you don't keep a sponsor for 30 years if you are a d!ck to fans or media.
I guess what I just can't understand is how you can blow someone off who is there to tell you how much they admire you and what you are doing for a living. Say what you will, but if you're racing a nitro car for a living, how much can your life really suck? That guy with his kid on the fan's side of the ropes may have had to save for months to pay for the trip to see his heroes and introduce his kid to drag racing. You only get one shot to make a first impression at anything, and if I were KB with all his money, fame and position in life, you couldn't knock the grin off my face with a shovel. Ignore fans? Hell, you'd think I was running for office I'd be so friendly!
clwill
Nitro Member
I've been around countless athletes/drivers/etc. in my life. Owned a company that did very high end auto customization, the pro athlete was our best customer.
They all have one thing in common -- they are all incredibly competitive people. But they don't all have the ability to turn that stuff on and off. Some of them can be friendly, warm and welcoming one minute and the next minute they're ready to compete at a world-class level. Others, it takes hours build it up and hours to come back down. And still others don't know any other way -- would race you to that soda machine over there.
Not sure where Kenny falls, but my personal experience with him is to steer clear of him at a race track. When he's wired, he's not a nice guy. But that's just my experience.
They all have one thing in common -- they are all incredibly competitive people. But they don't all have the ability to turn that stuff on and off. Some of them can be friendly, warm and welcoming one minute and the next minute they're ready to compete at a world-class level. Others, it takes hours build it up and hours to come back down. And still others don't know any other way -- would race you to that soda machine over there.
Not sure where Kenny falls, but my personal experience with him is to steer clear of him at a race track. When he's wired, he's not a nice guy. But that's just my experience.
I suppose I see it differently. My thinking is that it's easy to be nice when everything's going your way, but the truly nice people are pleasant when it would be easy to be a jerk. I too have seen fans be as dumb as a bag of hammers. One particular time, I was in the CSK funny car VIP area and a crew member had to quickly weld some bracing that broke on the body. So he hurriedly pushed it closer to the welder, strung out the leads and crawled under the body. He was no sooner under the car when some dillweed crawled under there with the guy to see what he was doing! But in my case, KB VOLUNTARILY walked out to the ropes, dressed in street clothes, on Saturday, after all the qualifying was done and was still a buttwipe. IMHO, that's what happens when you race as a BUSINESS and not for the love of the sport, regardless of the sport.
