The American Spectator

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Primetime McCain

8.19.08 @ 12:01AM

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Eventually the money angle prevailed and the amateurs that drove their car to the track and home again were outweighed with the big buck guys and now amateur racing is almost gone. Roger Penske with oodles of money came in with thinly disguised Grand Prix cars called the Xerox Special as I recall and wiped everybody away. It really isn't the technology that rapes the sport, it's the money.
-- Stu Sammis

THERE, THERE
Re: Frost's letter (under "Pat on the Back") in Reader Mail's Petro Pelosi:

Frost is certainly right (sorry, correct) in his assessment of letters from Bev Gunn, Diane Smith, et al. I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but if the Arnold Ahlert who posts here used to write for the NY Post, we can count ourselves lucky. That guy can say more in fewer words than most ink-stained wretches can. Although it is still hard to beat Gertrude Stein's "there is no there there."
-- Dick Lambert
Eagle Rock, Virginia

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