Tim Wilkerson

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:52:11 GMT

Congratulations Tim, the Wilkerson family (you too Roy), to the pit crew, Dick Levi and to everyone associated with Team Wilkerson on the tremendous win in Seattle at the Northwest Nationals. Wishing you continued good luck this weekend in Sonoma - will be listening on the computer and calling Bandy after every pass. Will be in Memphis October 3rd - hope to see you and the team then. Will be bringing two new Wilkerson fans with me - Todd & Taylor Hayes from Hayes Brothers Auto Care here in Murfreesboro. Your number 1 fan in Tennessee - Bob Alexander.

Tim Wilkerson

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:40:47 GMT

Tim,

We really enjoyed the interview on Sunday with you and Daniel. You and your wife have to be so proud of Daniel.

He not only does a great job in the car but in front of the camera.

Best of luck to your entire team.

Tim Wilkerson

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:35:34 GMT

I think you are the best racer ever!! You rock Tim!

Tim Wilkerson

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:21:34 GMT

I'm a big time Tim Wilkerson fan to the fullest. He's a class act who lets his car and driving ability do his talking. Although, he lost to "Fast" Jack at the Southern Nationals, it was certainly not due to his driving skills. I would will always put my money on him. It ain't over until its over. Go get em Tim!!

Tim Wilkerson

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:43:10 GMT

After Fifth Semifinal Finish At Richmond, Tim Wilkerson Still On ... - Auto Racing Daily

Auto Racing Daily

After Fifth Semifinal Finish At Richmond, Tim Wilkerson Still On ...
Auto Racing Daily - Oct 13, 2008
Tim Wilkerson came into Richmond for the Virginia NHRA Nationals in first place in the Funny Car Countdown to 1and after a great outing in his beautiful ...

Tim Wilkerson

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:12:49 GMT

Taxi To the Dark Side

Among the slew of documentaries inspired by the post-9/11 war, arguably none is more important than Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side. The story it has to tell, with compelling thoroughness and no recourse to rhetoric, should be as disturbing to Americans supporting the war as it is to opponents. In December 2002, Dilawar, a young rural Afghan cabdriver, was accused of helping to plan a rocket attack on a U.S. base, clamped into prison at Bagram, and subjected to physical torture so relentless that he died after two days of it. But Dilawar was innocent--and he'd been denounced by the real culprit, who thereby took the heat off himself and won points with U.S. forces by giving them "a bad guy." Dilawar was the first fatal victim of Vice President Dick Cheney's devotion to "working the dark side"--torturing, humiliating, and otherwise abusing prisoners in the "Global War on Terror." His story, developed in horrific detail with testimony from the soldiers who tortured him, and also from two New York Times investigative reporters, becomes a prism for slanting light onto the "dark side" policy and the mindset behind it. The program at Bagram was deemed such a success that it served as the model for Abu Graibh the following year in Iraq, and both prisons became pipelines to the detainee facility at Guantánamo, Cuba.

The film's impact is powerful and complex. We come to see the very soldiers who broke Dilawar's body and spirit as victims, too--and patsies of a policy that, from Cheney and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on down, ignored the Geneva Convention and shrouded itself (and commanding officers) in "a fog of ambiguity" while the grunts took the fall. A lot of these grunts testify here, and the accumulation of their individual perspectives on a shared tragedy is devastating. The latter half of the film features penetrating commentary from critics of torture as a policy (Senator John McCain was still one at the time), all of whom agree that it doesn't work and it only damages us. And for Theatre of the Absurd, there's a PR tour of (a discrete portion of) the Guantánamo facility, which turns out to be kinda like summer camp: "They get ice cream on Sundays." Finally, Taxi to the Dark Side isn't about torture or politics or the justness or unjustness of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Gibney is entirely correct when he says, "It's really about the American character and whether we have become something rather different from what we imagine ourselves to be." He's asking; he doesn't want it to be true. --Richard T. Jameson

Tim Wilkerson

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:10:23 GMT

Virginia NHRA Nationals results - USA Today

Virginia NHRA Nationals results
USA Today - 21 hours ago
Tim Wilkerson, Impala, 4.071, 302.48 def. Ashley Force, Mustang, 4.061, 308.07. Jack Beckman, Charger, 4.048, 304.94 def. Del Worsham, Impala, 4.050, ...

Tim Wilkerson

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:13:45 GMT

Wilky rocks. Hes gonna win the championship in 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tim Wilkerson

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:59:39 GMT

Did you see that win against Ashley Force?!?! Awesome!!! Congratulations Tim! We are really proud of you!