Per,
Just a note: North American Pylon can be found through Tower Books'
newsstands (if they don't have it, ask for it), our largest distributor. Not
many others, but a few, and amazingly, it sells. :)
--Pat Kelly
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>From: GRMPer@aol.com
>To: autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: GRM's coverage of the Solo II Nats.
>Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2001, 8:49 PM
>
>Hi All,
>
>Figured I'd weigh in, since I wrote the article in question. The people
>that have been to nats can see the results of nats in several different
>formats: They can sit on the bleachers and watch...hear about it from
>friends...read about it in Sports Car...read about it in NAP...and read about
>it in our magazine. So...you already know, for the most part who won and
>who almost won..and who got stopped for a bit in the impound shed. With
>about 6 pages to work with, we decided to put some cool pics in, and give
>some descriptions of some of the neat class battles. Next year we'll
>probably do another selection of classes.
>
>So, why 6 pages? Because that's what we can fit and still have a
>marketable magazine for the newsstand, which, not coincidentally, is
>something that SportsCar or NAP do not have to deal with. SportsCar and NAP
>are not our competition in the grand scheme of things.
>
>It's somewhat like the threads on team.net that start out with a well-meaning
>soul who asks why autocross isn't on Speedvision. This is shortly followed
>by a post from Rich Fletcher, Matt Murray or Bob Tunnell about the realities
>of marketing such a program. Same concept, different media.
>
>Another reality is that GRM has evolved to the point that we are servicing
>many different facets of the amateur racing market. We will continue to have
>autocross feature cars, come to nats, build autocross cars..etc...but we
>will also do tire tests on road racing cars, WKA Karts, feature IT build ups
>and maybe even a BMW CCA car or two.
>
>Now for the gratuitous spam. Want a free sample of most well-rounded
>motorsports mag in the industry? email me your address and I'll send you out
>a free sample.
>
>Per
>GRM
>http://www.grassrootsmotorsports.com
>
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