Considering Tucker spent something like $1m developing a turbocharged 670cc, de-stroked GSXR1000 powered D sports racer for the sole purpose of winning the 2012 SCCA runoffs, including buying West Cars in the process...
Hell yeah, he can do whatever shady-ass things he wants. There's a history of this unseamly stuff around racing. It being a hideous addiction, no different than heroin, crack or meth, people will of course do ~anything~ to get the funds to buy racing.
Hell, I even took up working for the government.
Let them spend their money burning up tires, it's a heathy use of ill-gotten funds.
I have nothing to add that hasn't been said already so ill just add this.
OldGray320i wrote:
What morality and propriety are we willing to sacrifice to get what we want? For the cocaine funded racing of IMSA (of which I was wholly unaware of when watching it way back when - even went to the last IMSA race at Riverside!), when you think about the lives that were (and continue to be) fundamentally destroyed by the drug, the brutality of the trade, and everything else, I would hope that I wouldn't have watched IMSA racing. I wouldn't now, especially given the apparent pervasiveness of it at the time.
Are cigarettes and payday loans in the same category? Both of them destructive in a sense, perhaps with less immediacy, but do they rise to the level of brutal cocaine dealers?
The nudie bar sponsors - do you really want your daughter to see that? Or your son, for that matter - the penchants of young men notwithstanding?
I think as society rolls along, we tend to be too accepting of things we shouldn't. I mean, how sad is it there are websites for adultery that advertise on TV. Because that activity always has such positive effects on people.
If one car advertises questionable sponsors, is that enough to stop watching the sport? Probably not, but a whole bunch of teams? For me, yes.
I think that the popularity of morally gray services has increased advertising, like strip clubs and cheat on your spouse websites. I often don't see them being able to sponsor race cars on TV. I watch Indy Car racing.
