Comments on: A Plea For Help

By: racing fan

racing fan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:32:04 +0000

Pat Caporali is such an amazing media relations/sponsor relations flunkie that she failed to secure adequate sponsorship of one race car… If she were better and the driver were a winner, the team could garner a sponsor. Survival of the fittest.

By: AZZO45

AZZO45 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:20:47 +0000

Writing EM’s or having the USPS deliver mail to Vision’s former sponsor MENARD’S is a waste of time John Menard will most likely sponsor ROBBY GORDON & his entry @ the Indy 500

MENARDS has probably moved onto another driver or team he has had a long relationship with… this is Business 101 folks. Robby might have a better cost structure for MENARDS or JM feels Robby (& a rumored Andretti Autosport) will be more competitive @ the 500 then Ed (& Vision). The other sponsors were pretty small… William Rast was originally linked with Townsend Bell & he has announced he will be with Sam Schmidt @Indy

By: JamesO

JamesO — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:41:11 +0000

Thank you. That’s the most convincing argument I’ve seen.

By: Steve_P83

Steve_P83 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:32:41 +0000

I understand some people do not like Tony George and would not care to see his team fail. However, there are many more people at Vision Racing beyond Tony George. Pat Caporali is an amazing woman whom I have met personally. Vision, with Pat, has done a lot for the fans of both the team and the IZOD Indycar series. Even if you’re not a fan of TG, think about the people who work at Vision Racing. Don’t let your personal feelings for one man get in the way of doing what is right and showing your support for the league. TG did some bad things to the series, but GET OVER IT!!!! Vision asked for your help, that is what makes this different than any other team that has shut down. It is not because of TG that people are helping. It is because that amazing lady doing the PR, Pat Caporali, had a great idea to try to help the team. An e-mail takes five minutes at the most. Show your support for the league and get over your personal issues and prejudices.

By: Andy Bernstein

Andy Bernstein — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:38:55 +0000

I am perplexed that the idea of forming partnerships between owners who cannot fund their own teams has been ignored.

This is the solution to reality faced by Nascar last year. Current team priciple with insufficient individual sponsorship committments should pool their existing resources and get back in business.

If Coyne cannot fully fund the Boy Scout entry, that endorsement should be transferred as well.

Andy Bernstein

By: Drayton Sawyer

Drayton Sawyer — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:51:23 +0000

There is no way in hell I’m going to beg on behalf of a man who’s quarterly interest check could pay the note on my house ten times over. This is ridiculous, TG could fund this season without batting an eye, and look for a sponsor in the mean time, I’m not doing it!

By: bickelmom

bickelmom — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:33:28 +0000

Nope, Speedgeek, no relation. : )

By: The Speedgeek

The Speedgeek — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:02:01 +0000

Yep, what you said, Bicklemom (who I’ve been meaning to ask for months if you’re related in any way to Rich Bickle). When you make an insinuation in a Twitter post that you and your wife are expecting a baby and get a prompt (like, within 2 minutes) congratulatory reply from @VisionRacing, then a team that didn’t really make much of an impression on the racetrack suddenly becomes a little dearer to your heart. At least that’s what happened to me. Try getting something like that from @TCGR or @TeamPenske, if those accounts even exist.

Anyway, I’m still no real Ed Carpenter fan, and I’ve got mixed feelings about helping a race team that should probably be responsible for finding its own money (as they all should be), but sending an e-mail is literally the least I can do to help out the League by attempting to help the car count and attempting to help out a team that feels so deeply for its fans.

By: bickelmom

bickelmom — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:50:24 +0000

I think one of the main reasons this cry is going up for Vision, and didn’t for those other teams, is because Vision has worked so hard to make the fans a part of their organization. They really have gone above and beyond what other teams had done in the past to make the connection and so, when this announcement came that they were shuttering, the fans wanted to do something to help. Personally, I would have written such a letter for Marty Roth’s team if I had been asked or thought of it on my own. But Vision’s request is just another example of how they are getting all of us involved in a way other teams haven’t before.

By: imjustsayingisall

imjustsayingisall — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:19:46 +0000

My e-mail to Pat and Mike @Vision is sent….