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Re: A good day for LEGO until....
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Sun, 29 Jul 2001 04:35:03 GMT
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"Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatico.deletethisspamblock.ca> wrote in
message news:GH7syu.I56@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.general, Mike Walsh writes:
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> Back to on-topic, I didn't see the LEGO logo at all there,
> as it's too small. I could barely make out the major sponsor
> logos as it was. Had I been in the paddock area for that
> race I would have taken plenty of pictures of it. The
> Rahal.com site doesn't show/mention LEGO yet, and the CART.com
> site has pictures of very poor quality (but the LEGO stuff
> is still recognizeable---there is quite a bit of it on the car).
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> KDJ
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> LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Sort of off topic but since LEGO is a racing sponsor, sort of on topic as
well. If I were going to sponsor a race car, I wouldn't sponsor and Indy
style car - there simply isn't that much room to plaster your logo on so it
is readable from any distance. NASCAR provides a much broader canvas to
plaster a logo on and IMHO - it is better racing as well!
Mike
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Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
http://www.nclug.net/ctb - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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| (...) Well, even though I work for Roush, I prefer CART..., so I'm going to avoid taking the bait on the "better racing" part ;] You are right, the Cup cars have much more surface area. But it all goes to the title sponsor, so LEGO would have to put (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) That's the down side of actually being there. It all happened right in front of me but I only got to see it once. But I vividly recall watching them enter Turn 3, when I started yammering frantically, "Too high, too high!..." <THWAP!> After (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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