Hello Northern Thunder team. We are a special event agency in Hamburg, Germany and looking for a dragster for a fair in Cologne this August. Can you help with some contacts to German or Dutch racers? Thanks a lot and all the best.

I was just surfing and stumbled upon your web page... you have some excellent information and links on your page. I was very surprised to see you even had some information on our soon to be built Kwinana Motorplex (Perth, Western Australia)... you have been busy :-) Very impressive!

With your permission I would like to include your link on our new website. Our site is located at www.motorplex.com.au. This page includes the official home pages for Ravenswood International Raceway and Claremont Speedway, both of which will be relocated to the new facility in Kwinana in October 2000. Please be aware that this site is in its infancy and is still under construction. Any comments/advice would be much appreciated.

Hey, Fornicator of large canine dingos... We have a graveyard shift available on the 26th... Gonna be around???? signed, Les Sztankovics (The BOSS!)

Saw your website and thought you may include a link to our Race Against Impaired Driving (RAID) web site. You may also wish to join the program. Not much is involved from a driver/team point of view. You simply place the RAID decals on your car and patch on your suit and speak out against impaired driving.

You will be free to use the RAID program in your marketing mix, adding a new dimension to your team. Your team will be listed as a supporter of the RAID program with links to your site. If you're interested, check out the site (still under construction) and e-mail me for more information.

I read an old clipping (1985) of Canadians Bill Phillips and Dan Zimmerman and their Rotary-Valve hemi. Is there a follow-up article? Where can I find more information about rotary valve engines? Many thanks -- great web site.

Here ya go jet drag fans! Your source for Jet Powered Drag Racing Vehicles, the drivers, crews and support teams. Filled with jet links, jet-tech, classifieds, Pro-Jet info and more! Hope you can visit! PLEASE sign our guestbook, your comments are very welcome. Jet Webb.

Here it is Bob. I borrowed my boss's digital camera the other night and took a photo of a photo of my car. It's turned a best of 14.55 at 96 mph in October '97 on BF Goodrich "Mega-Spins" and an unlocked diff, not to mention the valve bounce at 5200 rpm. It should be heading over to the Isa in a few weeks if all goes well. How has the dragster been going?

I was hoping I could trade links with you. My site is: Eliminator Prints. Thanks a lot.

Well, I still have no personal computer to work on. (very long story) It has been wet here quite a bit lately so little has been done. The map for the wiring has been passed onto the sparky. That should have been started already. At our last meeting there were a lot of topics discussed. One of which was the opening date.

It was mentioned that we should run a couple of private meetings first to test the equipment and staff. They will also be invitation only events. Who we invite I'm not sure on. If you are interested in possibly joining us for one of the first test runs please let me know. At this stage all I can say is that it will be late in the year.

A drawcard for the first meeting will be Victor Bray. He will bring both cars, so I'm told. We have had so much response to our new track and people wanting to be at our first meet that we are not sure if we know what we're in for. Estimates at this stage (depending on who pulls out and public advertising response) are around 200 to 300 racers. Of which we estimate only 70% of them will be streeters. Maybe less than that. Our first meeting has drawn so much hype that we need to run the test runs to see where our weak spots are and improve on them before the official opening, we want to impress everyone enough to come back, not upset racers and spectators by not knowing what we're doing.

Still a lot of finishing touches happening around the track. My guess is we will be doing finishing touches for years to come but won't affect operations too much. Well that is all I have time for. Please let me know if you have any questions.

On your web page,  Sponsorship and Marketing, you list a number of sponsorship newsletters. Our newsletter, Exordium Group Comments, is the first and only one-stop source of news, views and how-to's on sponsorship and today's leading edge technology. Would you add this to your web page? We are at: www.exordiumgroup.com/newstrlr/announce.htm.

Hi there, Ivan from Canada, looking for any info on possible dates for live broadcasts on TV. Got a bunch of Aussie TV channels, love to check out some racing. If you could, would you send dates, times and channels. Love your website! I found it through a Lycos search engine. Is it alright that I send it to some friends by link?

Hi, my name is Marc and I am doing an assignment on rails, and I was wondering what the fastest recorded time for a rail is, and also I was wondering if you knew a site with full technical specs of them.

Hi Bob, how is your dragster going? Are you and Darren picking each other's brain to pieces yet? I wouldn't be surprised.

In your excellent "101 Ways" to market a race team you mentioned that research shows that racing fans are considerably more likely than fans of any other sport to support sponsors (point #34). Please could you contact me with information on where you got this statistic and where I can find any more like it.

I was wondering if I could use one of your Top Ten Lists for an article in a local racing club's magazine. Thanks!

How's things been shaping up lately? By the looks of things you've been pretty busy. Well what a holiday I had. It was great getting a drag racing fix again and to finally catch up with you. I'm planning my next trip as we speak (I'm aiming for at least two rounds of the Castrol New Year Series; all depends on work). How is work on the car going? I hope that all things are progressing well for the Winter Finals. I guess I'll have to catch the debut on telly. Best of luck mate.

Bob, I thought you might like to check out the latest SHOPTALK over at Harvey Racing Engines. I think you'll get a kick out of it. Hope to hear from you soon.

Hi again. It seems you have not arrived back in the land of rain, rain and more rain. Have just read your "What's New" page and have figured out that you are staying for the Winter Nationals. Are you using your car or someone else's? And if you're not using your's, why not? I understand that you now have it. Mom and I both thought you might have been coming home a while ago.

Being the "practical" member of the family I hope you have made arrangements with your workplace for an extended leave of absence. It would be REALLY stupid if you have no job to come back to espcially as this seems to have been a rather expensive trip. Oh yes, it might also be a good idea to give mom a quick phone call, I think she is starting to get a little worried. I talked to her on Friday and said I hadn't had any news and that your web page hadn't changed. I don't know when you last updated it because as of last Wednesday, (June 30), nothing new had appeared after June 7th.

The big excitement in our house is that Robin did make the All-Star baseball team, so what with practices, fund raising, exhibition games, etc. we're quite busy. The big tournament is in Creston beginning on July 16. If we win there we go on to the Northwest Championships in White Rock at the end of the month. Our new trailer will certainly come in handy. Your neice is now a teenager. She's pretty proud of herself, especially as she finished grade seven with a "Straight A's" report card.

Good luck wherever you are and with whatever you are doing. TTFN.

Hi Bob, or should I say, Hi Mr. Wilson !!!! You know of Dennis the Menace, don't you? Anyway, just fooling around on your web site. It's great. See you up at Ken's shed soon.

Thanks for keeping the people updated on the new track proposal. As David Cook, from DRAGSTER Australia, has probably told you things are progressing. Despite recent press releases from mindless trouble-making nobodies who reside in the cellar of their department, the proposal is STILL ALIVE and currently before the premier! Once again, thanks for your support.

G'day mate, this is Jamie in Brisbane. I'm actually from Ontario but I moved here a year ago. I was doing a search for car wreckers in Brisbane (fixing up a '73 Celica) and somehow ended up at your webpage. Thanks for the link to Willowbank Raceway though. I haven't been yet but I plan to go soon. Maybe when it warms up a bit more, so the "push-back" girls will be less clothed.... ha ha. Anyway, keep up the great work on your web page!