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The next net adventure was to get involved with the group that became DailySportsCar<\/a>, then I got uninvolved.<\/p>\n Kerry Morse and I had the bright idea of setting up our own stall, SportsCarPros<\/a> and due to the kindness of a real gentleman, Harald Mergard, we managed to blunder our way through for six years. An unlikely result given the chaotic manner that Kerry and I conduct ourselves. However we hit the target more often than we missed. Outraged of Weissach and Unhappy of Volusia were evidence that our aim was true.<\/p>\n The SCP mission statement, if it can be graced with that tag, went like this:<\/p>\n
What the World needs now is\u2026\u2026..another website about![\"\"](\"http:\/\/sportscarpros.anamera.com\/images\/0093\/tp-157.gif\") \nsportscars\u2026\u2026\u2026.Nah! \n \n<\/em><\/strong>You can see why good ole Burt Bacharach rejected that line\u2026\u2026showing the good \ntaste and judgement that bought him a string of classics and even showed him \nthe way to San Jose. \n \nIf such a musical titan rejected this plot line then why are Morse, the Cottons and I \nplunging headlong down that particular ravine? \n \nBecause it\u2019s there? Well, yes actually. \nSportscars and their competitive antics attracts the usual cast of obsessive, \ncompulsives who also chase locomotive engines and the life and times of Black \nSabbath\u2026\u2026\u2026.so too their websites are a reflection of this. \n \nWhat are we going to do that\u2019s different? \n \nHmmm, it is probably easier to say what we are not going to do. \n \nNo race reports as events unfold, no forums, no competitions, no minute by \nminute breaking news of events that rarely mean much, no endless photo \ngalleries of the same shot, badly taken\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 \n \nYou get the picture, there is a broad canvas out there and we are going to splatter \nour oils on it when we have something to say and not before then. \n \nThe site is unusual in that the main suspects are all working in the sport already \nnot peering from the outside trying to find a magic key to gain admittance and a \nfree media pass for lunch. We know the resource that we all have the greatest \nshortage of, even more than money, is time\u2026\u2026..so just this once we intend to use \nthis fact to govern our course\u2026\u2026\u2026.we won\u2019t say much but what we do say will be \nworth listening to. \n \nViewed coldly there are only two things in the sportscar area of any worth\u2026\u2026\u2026.Le \nMans and the people who labour away in the business\u2026\u2026\u2026.saints, criminals, \nlunatics, fantasists, good blokes, complete shits and people who make me laugh. \nThis procession of heroes and villains is the world that I now inhabit some 25-30 \ntimes a year. \n \nThere are worse places to be. \n \nOur aims\u2026\u2026. To stimulate mainly, to entertain usually and to annoy \noccasionally\u2026\u2026\u2026climb in for the ride<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Of course the effort of keeping our cyber rooms tidy was too much for Morse and I after a few years, plus there was a bag of gold on offer from another blog. So for the recent past I have been toiling away trying to keep the faithful entertained but that too seems to have run its course, so I am back on the streets again.<\/p>\n |
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