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Ari Strauss, the president of the Monticello Motor Club (MMC) in upstate New York, has approached Bernie Ecclestone with the idea of bringing Grand Prix racing to the venue, which is the closest motorsports venue to New York City, located just 90 minutes by car from Manhattan. According to a letter addressed to the club members, Strauss and club chairman Bill McMichael met Ecclestone several months ago to talk about hosting a Grand Prix, with an eye toward a long-term, 10-year deal. Hermann Tilke, the architect of F1′s modern venues, has visited MMC and apparently determined that the facility is capable of hosting a Grand Prix, although it will require work. In its current format MMC is 4.1 miles long. It was designed by driver Brian Redman and Bruce Hawkins, a track architect and engineer. Strauss is now working to secure backing for the idea from “local, state, and federal politicians and organizations”.
“Securing F1 is like winning the Olympics,” Strauss wrote. “Competition is fierce, and this is not a done deal. While the prospect of F1 at MMC is exciting, we remain focused on our core business: the club and its members.”
Strauss said that a race “would transform the region into one of the motorsports capitals of the world, bring thousands of jobs to Sullivan County, inject over $100 million each year into the local economy, and place the club in the company of famous racing circuits like Monza and Spa.”
The club opened in the summer of 2008 with the plan being to sign up 125 “founding” members, each paying a membership fee of $125,000 and annual dues of $7,500. The club is aimed at Wall Street executives and members are generall worth more than $20 million. Although the membership list is private, it is believed that NASCAR star Jeff Gordon and comedian Jerry Seinfeld are among them. The track had garaging for its membership’s exotic cars and a helipad to allow easy access from Manhattan. The track is situated on a 175-acre site. The original plan was for the club to have a fleet of exotic for its members to drive, including an F1 car. Monticello members have access to their track a minimum 200 days a year
McMichael was previously a partner in a health care company that was sold in 2006 for $25 million.
So I have not done the research, but my well honed gut tells me that wiener lands in the top search terms in the webosphere. I mean come on, if you do not see the immediate appeal of this tag/search word, then you can give up any hope of becoming VP of Web Analytics at Google, you big untech savvy goof.
So if it is not Wieners, what is it that people are looking for? So I called my good friends ( well not really) at Google Trends and Google Zeitgeist ( I was going to call Dogpile Searchspy, another trending site, but that really just made me a bit paranoid and itchy) just to get some honest to goodness insight for search.
Mind you, people, this is today. This is the USA, our evil friends have this to a level of granularity, that you need an electron microscope to even see the lowest level. What di your grandma in Wichita search for last night at 10:30 PM, just before doing two geritol and Absolut shooters?
Hot TopicsNew! (USA)
1. lohan
2. google tv
3. lance armstrong
4. rand paul
5. civil rights act
6. tour de france
7. new york city
8. kites
9. piramal
10. inter bayern
I just added Lohan to the tag label for this entry. What a strange mix of hot topics. It is like being in the grocery store for some odds and ends, and wondering what the clerk is thinking when she sees drano, spam, stockings, feminine hygiene products, 5 cases of beer, one curly light bulb, a hairpin, a condom and one lone wiener in your cart.
Are they planting ” google tv” there to manipulate you to checking that out, or is that really a top search? # 10, Soccer in the USA? Maybe this year, but next year, who will really give a diving head shot? What the hell is piramal? Ah, pharma, Abbott has bought them, to ensure that one day India is a dependent on drugs as we are. Good show.
You know it is not like back in the day one could keep track of what one looked up in the dictionary, encylopedia ( finalizing the last act of my play, Death of An Encylopedia salesman, which is the follow up to Death of a Typewriter Salesman shortly, see Amazon.com for pre-order information) or read in the newspaper. It all seemed so homey,individualistic, and personal and any community that was behind it was created by your own interest in participating. Book clubs, or schools, church or actually TALKING to people. Today it is one big connected ADD grocery cart that is rammed right up your aisle.
We have to learn to chose more carefully what we consume in every sense.
So the latest, just updated top searches?
1. grey s anatomy season finale
2. bret michaels back in hospital
3. plum island
4. jim thorpe
5. bp oil spill live feed
6. monticello motor club
7. julianna farrait
8. french open
9. jasmine
10. kites movie review
11. kelly bensimon crazy
12. bones season 6
13. tiger tiger burning bright poem
14. jim breuer
15. manheim auto auction
16. synthetic cell
17. shrek forever after
18. corexit
19. ashley greene sobe
20. tesla motors
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Oh hell, I could never work in search analytics. They must have feeds to every TV channel in the universe, every media type, every darned thing some silly President or overhyped boob jobbed actress utters just to attempt a forecast of what may become hot in the next 14.1 milliseconds. That place must be like NASA space control on steroid- 3D – Imax with a bunch of meth addled chimps at the controls. Whew.
” corexit”? Ah, oil dispersant. It will turn the BP oil spill into a beautiful biodegradable tropical paradise within days. BP personally guarantees that within two weeks of some ” really hard work by some starving fisherman” that they will be bottling the water and serving it alongside Pellegrino in fine restaurants. Furthermore they will open some oil rig side **** dining establishments along 12 planned new US off shore drilling platforms in the next 3 years. And to show their commitment to the environment, they are inviting all Democratic senators to come eat free for the first year, and buy one flaming desert, get one free special for the first lobbyists to sign new (oil) watered down legislation.
So ladies and gentlemen, the top 10 search words for 2009?
1. michael jackson
2. facebook
3. tuenti
4. twitter
5. sanalika
6. new moon
7. lady gaga
8. windows 7
9. dantri.com.vn
10. torpedo gratis
Torpedo gratis, my friends has beaten my beloved Wiener, hands down. I am broken but clearly I have some research to do.