RE: I'm a real racing driver now Mike! ,
 Hi John!!
 
Nice car photos.   Hey I have been thinking about some sponsors here are some ideas:  Krispy Kreme Donuts (national growing donut chain--everybody loves them), Calpine Energy, Duke Energy, New York Times (they deliver locally through-out the US), Starbucks Coffee (out of Seattle),  Southwest Airlines, Champion Sportswear, Columbia Sportswear, America OnLine, Home Depot,and I could come up with some more.  Do you like any of these for a last name??  John Krispy Kreme???  
 
Sounds like things are going well for you -- give me a call sometime.
Take Care,  Your good friend, Mike.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Batchelor [mailto:john.topgear@ukgateway.net]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 5:09 AM
To: Swerzbin, Mike
Subject: Fw: I'm a real racing driver now Mike!


Hi Mike,
 
How is everything?
 
I know That you tried getting back to me a couple of weeks ago after I sent you the earlier email, and we just keep missing each other!
 
Things move fast over here, the race season is going OK and I've managed not to kill myself yet! We have had an offer of some sponsorship in the states to race in the Speedvision Touring Car championship, so far we've got about 30% of the $600,000 that we need. I am trying to get hold of the names of some companies in th US who sell to end users (Joe Public) and perhaps are not normally associated with racing, big retailers, that sort of thing. I was wondering if you had any idea's, all I need is about six or seven company names, I can research the rest over the internet and send them some proposals via email. If you have two minutes to email them to me that would be great.
 
Cheers
 
John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: John Batchelor <mailto:john.topgear@ukgateway.net> 
To: mike.swerzbin@enron.com <mailto:mike.swerzbin@enron.com> 
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:15 PM
Subject: I'm a real racing driver now Mike!

Hi Mike,
 
Well, I did it, got the deal to do BTCC Touring Cars, it has a similar profile here in the UK to Nascar, but is actually very closely related to The Speedvision Touring Car Championship in the US.
 
Here's me and my team-mate racing;

We are having a very good year, but would like to do it in the US in 2002, can you give me a call on either 01625 520997 or my cell phone which is 07710 769289, I'd like to pick your brains on a couple of things. Can you believe people actually line up to get my autograph!!!! how weird is that?! Hope the family are well and look forward to talking to you soon.
 
John B&Q (it's a long story...but I changed my name AGAIN to match the sponsors name, so that when the commentary team on the TV talk about me....they advertise the sponsors brand!)
john.topgear@ukgateway.net