pic: HOT Team Wheels

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I was not in any way offended by the picture. All I'm saying is that there is no such thing as a free lunch so whoever is paying for it gets to decide how many people it serves.

I don't disagree one bit that it is great to have such a big sponsor who gives you such cool stuff, and I don't disagree that the team may have no control over the gifts of their sponsor, but as I said, the value in those vehicles could be put to better use.

You don't get it, do you? HOT needed a new truck to pull their trailer around the country. GM had a slightly used H2 that they can do nothing with except donate to a worthy cause. GM decides to donate it to HOT because GM knows HOT will get a lot of use out of it. GM also gets the added benefit of students and engineers drooling over the beautiful truck. HOT takes the gift and uses it to transport their robot & tools across the country, and because they're such nice people they also haul other teams' equipment across the country. So in reality GM's gift to HOT was also a gift to many other teams in Michigan. Isn't that good use of the truck?