[Fot] SVRA Advertisements

Fri May 1 15:50:06 MDT 2020

Tony,

Please don't take me off any mailing lists for saying this,  For a lot of
folks vintage racing has been a non-profit, club activity for a very long
time. The thought of doing things differently and following a well run
business model that would include something like this can run counter to
some guys vintage club DNA.  Through the wrong filter, something with
honorable intentions like this offer can be seen as wrong-minded. On a bad
day the sun doesn't ever shine.

To get the right filter we have to consciously change the lens.  In our
pre-covid world tracks were already struggling with generating enough
revenue to make business sense. Now the future is even more scary.   Any
track, or any organization that wants to be in the business of promoting
events has a huge challenge in front of them post pandemic. They have to
try new and different things, they have to take care of their people, and
find a way to do that while paying all the bills. The SVRA has been doing
that since you took over. I don't agree with everything the SVRA does
that's okay.

Can I recruit some backers for the Woodstock 6 social distancing festival?

Bob Kramer

On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 3:33 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* <tony at svra.com>
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> 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.
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> *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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