Well, well -- some of you have come out of the woodwork and donated to keep this site up and running. Instead of my usual responding via the return address on the Paypal statements I'll list those that have arrived here - both to let them know that their support has arrived, but also to let them publicly bask in the sunshiny aura by being some of them that actively supported the site with $$. Thanks.
Thanks to Bill Huff, Gary Perkinson, Fred Vance, John Hanson, Neil Albaugh, David Hosley, Phillip Landry, George LeCavalier, Jim Dincau, Skip Pipes, and - one whose name doesn't ring a bell - H & H Structural Contracting. H&H's donation arrived via a check today, which, most obviously, is a fine alternate way to support the site. That is -- you don't have to use Paypal if you don't care to. Send checks, money orders, and what have you to landracing.com, 509 Dukes Road, Skandia Michigan 49885.
Further donations will be welcome and important. For instance -- we'll have live audio from Wilmington next weekend, and we're going to experiment with video, too. We have no real idea of how we'll do it - where to put a camera/some cameras, for instance. Putting them by the microphone at the timing tower means all we need to do it hook the camera's cable to the console. If we want a camera at the line -- we'll have to either put the console down there or figure out how to get the video that mile from start to timing. And there's a good-sized cost to stream audio - $100 for one month - can't buy it for only a few days. Add video and now it's $200 for the month. Milwaukee Midget and Gregg Adams have been doing most of the hard stuff including getting the hardware together and setting it up at the race track - so thank them. We're planning on streaming from World of Speed and maybe even the Shootout - and this "practice" will be invaluable for those shows. And that, friends, is just one reason we need donations to keep things going. If you know of a company that has a budget that would allow some spending to advertise on this website -- please steer them to me or send me the name of the company or better yet, the name of the person at that company to whom I'll send a solicitation.
Whew. Thanks to all. Back to Prairie Home Companion for me.
I added Jim Dincau - whose donation just now showed up. Thanks, Jim.