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To: ztect who wrote (43707)	12/15/2000 1:04:24 AM
From: Mylan Hart	Respond to of 44908

Officials from the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) looked about Hutchinson Island and saw potential amidst the overgrown thatch and along an empty pit road so different from what it was just over a year ago -- when it teemed with activity and roared to life with the sounds of engines at the inaugural Grand Prix at Savannah Harbor. But despite Tuesday's preliminary site inspection by ARCA, any plans to bring a race back to the still rustic island are hardly out of the woods. "For us to come here, we want to be confident that we will be here for the long haul," said ARCA president Ron Drager. "At this moment, (API Championship Group) still has some issues to clear up that aren't related to us. Our timetable for any agreement is based on what they do." API Championship is a large sports promotion and marketing firm interested in taking over the debt-ridden contract of Colonial Motorsport Group to host races on Hutchinson Island. CMG lost more than $3 million after putting on the 1997 Grand Prix, which featured Indy Lights, the official developmental series of Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). CMG has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11, seeking protection from creditors. The local group also sought out API Championship to take over management of future events in an effort to pay off creditors. API Championship managing director Ardy Arani and director Thomas Swanson spent most of Tuesday meeting with Drager and ARCA competition director Joe Wells, but still are undecided as to whether API Championship will offer a reorganizational plan to Federal Bankruptcy court in the coming weeks. "This is another step. This is another part of our due diligence," said Arani. "If we do decide to offer a plan and take on this event, one step would obviously be to have a sanctioning body in place." ARCA, a 49-year-old stock-car series, is running a 22-race schedule in 1998, including short- and dirt-tracks as well as NASCAR's Super Speedways. A race on Hutchinson Island's 10-turn, 1.965-mile road course would be the first ARCA road race since an outing in Topeka, Kansas two years ago. "We feel like we're the most diverse of series out there," said Wells. "Our drivers are tested on dirt, on short tracks and on the Super Speedways. A road course would really be the final piece of that test." ARCA cars are similar to cars from NASCAR's Winston Cup and Grand National series. Each weighs about 3,400 pounds with limits on engine size and compression. No computer technology is allowed. Without restrictor plates, which are required on Super Speedways such as Talladega, ARCA cars can generate 650-700 horsepower. Whether that power is unleashed on Hutchinson Island should be determined by the end of summer at the latest so that proper time can be given to the promotion and marketing of a 1999 event, Arani said. The wide, sweeping first turn of the road course, which is a county road built to serve the Hutchinson Island Maritime Trade Center, a golf course, hotel and other future development, is reminiscent of an oval racetrack and Wells said he believes only minor adjustments would have to be made to make the course ready for ARCA. "It's wide enough to handle some two-wide racing of bulky stock cars," said Wells. "I think we could put on a good show here for the fans ... It wouldn't take much to be able to go racing." Like Indy Lights, ARCA is a support event for other high-profile racing series much of the time. And like Indy Lights, ARCA would have be a feature race in the Savannah market -- something appealing to Drager. "That's what we like about coming to a market like Savannah -- where we can be the marquee series," Drager said. "Right now, our schedule is about half-and-half -- half day-before races and half main." Off the track, the "issues" API Championship needs to settle are primarily financial. Swanson has been identifying sponsorships from Savannah's private business sector over the past several months and said he is about one-third of the way toward his goal. Swanson said he has recruited "eight to 10" members of a Circle of Champions, which would be a large portion of the financial backbone of the event, and has commitments of about $200,000 toward a $500,000 goal. He said he has also had unsolicited contact from three potential title sponsors for the race -- if it happens. "When those goals are met -- at that point Ardy and myself are willing to take the risk and commit our firm to this," said Swanson. "But we have to get to that point."

To: ztect who wrote (43707)	12/15/2000 8:01:43 AM
From: JWC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44908

>Bet you, one question posed to him by the SEC was how many shares was he paid by MTEI.< How many shares has TSIG/TIGI paid some on this thread to promote the stock?

To: ztect who wrote (43707)	12/15/2000 9:21:33 AM
From: REW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44908

I think it is important to have information posted for the longs and potential investors on database mining. This is a topic the investors need to learn and understand as it is one of, if not the biggest, key ingredient of the new company's plan going forward. Showing how this interrelates with "zero customer acquisition cost" and "revenue sharing" with clients would be topics. How would the entire package that is the company feed into database mining and then also feed back out to those aspects? Which part starts and which part finishes a deal or does it have to? Covering whether selling services over product is better and more productive is another topic as the potential of maintaining near cost zero, other than the call center expenses, seems probable. Would the revenue and profits come more quickly and/or in bigger numbers without the set-up needed for product? Can the mandated margins be maintained from nearly the get-go -- if done right? Bob

To: ztect who wrote (43707)	12/15/2000 11:20:01 AM
From: Suzanne Newsome	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44908

Z, it was very interesting to see that Vegas did—in spades—on the MTEI thread what he has unjustly accused us of doing. How he can show up on this thread and call Marty a liar—knowing that the problem was with Gordon—when the same thing happened to him at MTEI headquarters, is simply unmitigated gall. Some of us have made mistakes. I put myself at the top of the list. But I do believe that some of us have learned from our mistakes. I think that you, Marty, Rich, Bob, and I would all do things differently if we had the chance. What has Vegas learned? What has Topfuel learned? Ian? Kevin? Their reaction to the perspective given them by 2 years of observation is to crank up the rhetoric, denounce the longs, and pretend they are omniscient and we are liars. Has any of that led us any closer to the truth? No. All it has done is force us to waste a lot of time being defensive. Truth does not lie in the extremes. I thought your post that I put up on RB the other day came as near to being a rational evaluation of reality as anything I have ever read on these boards. I can take criticism. All I ask is the opportunity to make those judgments at the same point in history as my detractors. If my critics want to make a big deal about the fact that I was wrong during the summer of ’99, then let’s go see what they were saying at the same time. The stock price is at a level I never expected it to return to. IMO, the contributing factors include tax loss selling, uncertainty about the LT debt, lack of a big money PR, general market sluggishness, Internet sector being out of favor, and simple attrition. You have said that you can wait for TIGI. I can too as far as I know. While I have been critical of people who have not had that staying power, the truth is that few people can predict what life circumstances they will be in in 2 ½ -3 years down the road. TIGI has certainly tested our resolve. IMO, the above negatives affecting the stock price are temporary. This too shall pass. If I am right, the future is still bright. If am wrong, our resolve will be tested again. And all should do something un-American, take personal responsibility for their investment decisions. Thanks for the unique insight and perspective you bring to this board. Regards, Suzanne