Nick Hogan Bollea Whatever Does Not Have Polaroid Backing After All
Remember a few days ago when D posted her article about Nick Hogan (or whatever his name is, I don't really care) blogging on MySpace? Here's what he had to say at the time:
omggggg its been forever since i blogged...hell i dont even know what blog means but i guess its where you write stuff for people to readanyways my last one was before i even drove for mopar, if you check my pics youll see that i did end up driving for them for my amateur season and most of my pro rookie season. i recently left the mopar team tho...things didnt work out to well
but!....i picked up a new title sponsor...POLAROID! and started my own team with twin 350z's pretty cool i know
anyways id like everyone to wish my luck for my 08 season and keep john graziano in your prayers
Not so fast, speedy boy. Polaroid has come out and said that absolutely no way are they sponsoring Nick:
Polaroid is not sponsoring Nick Bollea for the 2008 racing season, according to the company's vice president of marketing, Cheryl Mau.Mau sent an e-mail in response to an interview request. Mau declined to comment.
Bollea, son of famed wrestler Hulk Hogan, has Polaroid listed as a sponsor of his race car team, the Polaroid Drift Team, on his Web site, www.hogandrift.com.
According to photos on his website, Polaroid was a sponsor at one time, so they must have pulled sponsorship pretty fast after the accident that put John Graziano in the hospital. My guess is that people were so incensed that Polaroid yanked their money pretty fast.
It also is alleged that at the time of the accident, Nick's Supra was only insured for racing (on tracks), and he was driving on a license that restricted him to daylight driving only for six months.
I mean, I like auto racing too...I am actually a big fan. But racing belongs on racetracks, not on city streets. Nick is extemely fortunate that the accident wasn't any worse than it was. It could have hurt innocent bystanders as well.
Oh, here's one more thing:
Graziano's lawyer, George Tragos, said Tuesday that the young driver should keep a low profile until the matter is resolved.
The boy (and that's what he is, a seventeen-year-old boy) needs to sit down and shut up, and not just about Polaroid.
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