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Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger
I dyno a good bit with Gale Powley down in Charlotte. He is good friends with the previous owner/manger of Victory Valves. Victory's shop is nearby. He was telling Gale that the new owners walked over to the area where they made the valves that Gale has been using. What's this? They explained the NHRA guys use them in their cars. The corporate guys says "Well not very many of them, its a very small market."They will have to use the titanium ones from now on like all the other racers do!" LOL . With a snap of the finger, another part we rely on is eliminated.
Most of these big corporations are only interested in mass markets.
Houston....we have a problem..
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Exactly. We don't matter to the people who run the massive private equity companies. Every single time you see a company founded by racers, or car people in general, bought by a private equity company, you're seeing another piece of our sport slip away. They don't know us, they don't understand us, and they don't like us, they don't care about our sport.