[Fot] SVRA Advertisements

[Jeff Gerken]

Well written Tony.

Sent from my iPhone

On May 1, 2020, at 1:33 PM, Rick Parent via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:


Ken

Tony asked me to post his comments in response to your public post about SVRA on FOT.


Ken, your email below was forwarded to me from a fellow Kastner cup driver.  Honestly, I have been involved in SVRA for 8 years and I must admit your email was the most hurtful I have read to date. You are way off base to send this out without the facts and to not bother sending this directly to me if you had questions.



In the last 24 hours Cook Wealth Management helped process over 100 PPP applications for contract employees of SVRA, several race prep shops and several small business owners who were having trouble getting their loans processed. They also processed several PPP apps for independent corner workers. While the form process is very simple, getting a bank to process small individual  loans is nearly impossible. You assumed SVRA and or Cook Wealth were paid a fee to do this. Frankly that is not true. The Cook Wealth team worked with several banks as far away as South Dakota to help people get their much needed funding.



We use our email platform for offering free featured marque programs, like the Kastner Cup race at Mid-Ohio, schedule updates and raising awareness for several of the 501.C3s that we support. We also provide special membership offers on behalf of our sponsors. I’m sorry you were offended by our e-blast.  You are welcome to race with us but I do not plan to change my policy for our emails. We will remove you from our database to make sure you don’t receive unwanted emails. Just to be clear, we were paid nothing nor was Cook Wealth Management. Finally, I do not hand out or give away our customer’s email addresses. That’s why the email came from me. Also, my name is spelled Parella.



Regards,



Tony



Josh- please remove Ken’s email from our system today.



Tony Parella

CEO/SVRA

Majority Owner of Trans Am Race Company

1312 Regency Court

Southlake, TX  76092

214-475-8088 – Cell

tony at svra.com<mailto:tony at svra.com>

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On Friday, May 1, 2020, 02:43:48 PM EDT, Rick Parent <rick.parent at att.net> wrote:


Fyi, this is the Kastner Cup guy that sent that nasty email bad mouthing us again.

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From: Kenneth Knight via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
To: FOT <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020, 10:38:58 AM EDT
Subject: [Fot] SVRA Advertisements


On Thursday I received an email from SVRA with Tony Perella’s name on it which was an advertisement for an SVRA partner Cook Wealth Management.



First, what they were offering to do (for a fee no doubt) was to help small businesses with submitting the PPP SBA loan application to cover payroll costs during the Covid crisis.  My company submitted this application when it first came out and it was less than an hours work.  Very simple and straight forward, if you can manage your  payroll the application is a snap.  It is a waste of money to have these guys ‘help’ you.



Second, I don’t mind if a racing organization tries to hook us up with a partner that supplies something related to our cars and racing as long as they inform us that they give our emails to these companies.  By informing us, I don’t mean hiding the ‘opt out’ button in the fine print where it is easy to miss.



Given that SVRA is marketing in this fashion I can only assume that money is the issue.  A bit sad I think.



Ken

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