Granger Whitelaw, winner of the $10 million manned space vehicle competition has started a new sports league. We can consider this a rich man’s NASCAR, well more like NASA-CAR. This guy apparently has too much money than he knows what to do with. He has started the Rocket Racing League. The league consists of 10 rocket propelled jets, 9 of which are still being built. Most of the pilots will be former F-16 fighter pilots and one of them was quoted as saying:
“We started talking about 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, when there are no more airplanes for fighter pilots to fly and everything’s done remotely with unmanned vehicles. What’s going to happen to guys like us that want to fly fighters and pull 9 Gs and do all the things that we get to do now?”
Whitelaw says that each team will have to pony up some cash for one of the 11 rockets. The first two pilots have put down $100,000 for one of the rockets and each one will have to drop $500,000 and $750,000 each to race them. Each race will then, cost $450,000 to enter. Whitelaw says that this is a bargain compared to a NASCAR team which, on average, costs $18 million to own.
The RRL will be based in New Mexico and the city of Las Cruces has donated 10 acres of land and 10 hangars with a 50,000 square foot headquarters building. Even the Governor is billing this as the NASCAR league in the sky.
This is going to be quite interesting, but who is actually going to watch a league like this? I certainly won’t be interested and there won’t be fantasy leagues started with your fave RRL racer. Although, if they turned this into a dogfight, then I would watch. Even though this is a crazy idea, it just goes to show, what people do with their endless amounts of money.
Blair Says:
February 2nd, 2006 at 2:07 pmVisit Blair
Well, it can be said: “Who the hell would pay to watch cars go in circles for 5 hours?” You add three key items and you get a hit: Booze, Betting and the possibilty of explosions….
Think about it. In NASCAR you get maybe one car every few races doing flips and the guy walks out fine.. they make a huge deal out of it and they love it… Imagine how much more these same sick bastards would froth at the mouth for the possibility of a plane erupting in a ball of fire every time they head to the racetrack!
Perry Says:
February 2nd, 2006 at 3:00 pmVisit Perry
yeah of course! well i wouldnt want people to die, but it would be cool to see simulated crashes (i.e.) smoke and stuff.
investgating Says:
March 12th, 2006 at 8:34 amVisit investgating
Mr Whitelaw is quite the business man or shall I say venture capitalist, it appears that funding is being channeled from AMBER Alert to Space Rockets to Fuel Additives to Burmuda to Offshore solutions to New Jersey to The Chrysler Building 26 Floor to the Govenor of Kentucky to Indy Cars to stock promoter Granger Brewster Whitelaw to pleaded guilty to a criminal charges in the United States District Court for the Southern District Court of New York to Addresses that dont exist to AMBER Alert Program Severs Ties With Granger Whitelaw Feb 17, 2006 to the list will go on.
Perry Says:
March 12th, 2006 at 12:33 pmVisit Perry
Interesting….I didnt really know that he was sorta corrupt….Now we all know why he has all the money!
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April 8th, 2006 at 12:21 pmVisit investigating
Granger White law Strikes
THE ugly business of beauty marches on. Former Bobbi Brown protégé Beth Bender, creator of the “Get in Line” eyeliner stencil, has yet to make good on a settlement she signed with venture capitalist Granger Whitelaw, and he’s on the verge of taking the company’s new owner, Total Entertainment Inc., to court for his $3 million. “I was brought into Beth Bender to run the company, and my settlement was with Beth Bender,” Whitelaw said, but he hasn’t been paid by Bender or Total Entertainment. “I don’t care where the money comes from. It’s just a really ugly, terrible mess.” Besides Whitelaw, there’s a list of publicists, Web designers and consultants who have yet to be paid. “Everybody will be paid,” Bender insisted. “[Granger] created all of these problems. He lied to me and all the people I work with.
He bankrupted my company in less than six months.” A source familiar with both sides said Bender is not blameless. “She was right there with him writing the checks.”
Rocket Racing CEO Faces Separate Case in Arizona (Source: AP)
A man who proposes rocket-plane races in New Mexico has been accused of driving an Arizona Internet business into bankruptcy. A Chapter 11 bankruptcy court case involving Scottsdale-based Amber Alert Portal’s parent company, Engaging & Empowering Citizenship, accused Granger Whitelaw of saying he had raised $5 million for Amber Alert Portal, which the business said he did not do. Whitelaw would not comment on the bankruptcy proceedings, but said Amber Alert Portal’s allegations were without merit.
Granger Brewster Whitelaw to pleaded guilty to a criminal charges in the United States District Court for the Southern District Court of New York
August 31, 2000. On July 14, 2000, stock promoter Granger Brewster Whitelaw, the founding CEO of one of Bermuda’s first e-commerce companies, EOCnet.com, pleaded guilty to a criminal misdemeanor in the United States District Court for the Southern District Court of New York. He is due to be sentenced on October 24,
Mr Whitelaw is quite the business man or shall I say venture capitalist, it appears that funding is being channeled from AMBER Alert to Space Rockets to Fuel Additives to Burmuda to Offshore solutions to New Jersey to The Chrysler Building 26 Floor to the Govenor of Kentucky to Indy Cars to stock promoter Granger Brewster Whitelaw to pleaded guilty to a criminal charges in the United States District Court for the Southern District Court of New York to Addresses that dont exist to AMBER Alert Program Severs Ties With Granger Whitelaw Feb 17, 2006 to the list will go on