Do you guys really think that it's politics in this case? I, for one, believe there's A LOT of politics in FD, but.

As I said in another thread. There are a lot of legalities in airing on TV. Could it have been that the '240TA' was very commonly mentioned as 'Smoky the Bandit' and the relation of Burt Reyanolds was mentioned so many times that FD didn't want to air due to copyright purposes?

For those that were not able to make both Atlanta and Chicago events, I can CLEARLY see a difference in the way the XAT 240 was announced when it was being introduced.

Just an observation, don't know too much, but it sounds logical to me.

 

honestly I believe it may have been 3 fold of a problem:

1. Bill did not have his head shots done for the driver profile
2. Production crew didnt know him, maybe didnt feel the need to include him
3. the producers may not have liked the car, maybe it was deemed not likeable for being aired (I mean honestly its the Gush/Sam/Dai/and Rhys show.)

There are many shady things about FD, many things that none of you will ever see. If any of us make top 16, its because we did a top 8 or higher run. Casey and guys im sorry, that was flat out wrong.

 

turns out bills run wasnt exclusively left out:

http://www.drifting.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19832

 

I saw bill standing in the pre-race meeting... hahaha... I was like, Look honey,there he is!!! ............

 

I thought it was BS. i watched to see bills Tandem and saw NOTHING!!!!!!! I thik we should all Email G4 to see whats up let them know that we wanna see the T/Asx.

In all seriousness it looked like it was a joke not a sport...... they had a Host and a Reporter that knew nothing about Drifting and they mad it look like that show Banzai!!!! it looked like a joke.....Correction it was a joke. they showd Sam/Rhys/Tanner, and Gushi more than anyone ...... and Gushi was a joke for those two events.

 

^ Popularity is what those guys had.

The female driver of the pink 86...i forgot her name, her boyfriend is a falkin 86 driver, well she did absolutly amazing on her last run. Props to her too.
Her weak spot is the left hand turns.

 

many other runs were cut, including one more times, etc.

weak sauce. i dont want to see a bunch of BS about 'drift superstitions' and some assclown running around sneaking behind tires.

 

hahaha... that sounds funny

 

^haha^ srry to hear about bill not getting any spotlight. nissan chick should make brownies and give them to the camera man's. lol