Great day of OSS racing at LOTO
 

WOW, what a great day to be at Lake of the Ozarks. Mother nature cooperated with a picture perfect day, sunny with temps in the mid 80s. For what we thought were just time trials and practice, they had a couple of races, with the big ones to be today (Sunday). A huge turnout of boats on the water and no telling how many at the Toad Cove complex. Will be interesting to hear what the drivers and teams think about the event. I know our group was impressed and hope to see it come back.

Not the best pics but have included a couple.

You bet. We just got back in from the races. Excellent day except for the wind. I have a bunch of pics and a few videos I am putting on the computer now. On the last race All Jacked UP fliped their boat but heard everyone was OK.

Outstanding, I cannot imagine any better place than LOTO to hold this.

MY understanding is the Toad Cove will have the first right of refusal on the OSS Nationals from here on out and appearantly its a sealed deal for 2008, according to the business journal. Now all thats needed is more boats to enter certain classes.

I spent one day on the docks and Sunday on the water. What a great experience! It looked like Geico was 1st and Bad Moon Rising was Second because of some boats not finishing. It was a little windy on Sunday, but what a great start to many more.

Geico ran great and won Extreme -- because they finished. What good is the fastest boat if it can't stay together... but CRC was delivering an incredible a**whipping until they bowed out, no one was even close. Bud Select was last in the group until engine trouble in their second boat in 2 days.

Crc Rocked The Race Period!!

Great Racing. It was a blast to see all those boats in person.

Here's a few from Sundays Racing

Couple more:

We had a great time, can't wait to see them again. The racing and weather were perfect for watching the action.

Some pics:

More pics:

This could be the best race site of them all. The people are great, the crowd was estimated at 30,000 with about 5000 boats on the water.

Can't wait to go back again next year. It simply could not have been a better weekend. Thanks for having us.

You did a great job Ron. The races were great and it was nice to meet you Sturday night. Keep up the good work.

Ya'll come back now ya hear......

Typically things die off after labor day at LOTO, I would be willing to bet 20-30% of the typical weekenders didn't make it down for this event and the attendance will grow further.

As the word gets around in the mid-west about this event, it will only grow and those that missed it this year will make it next year. I hope this will help bring exposure to this sport and sponsorship needed to help your teams and bring other competitors to LOTO as well. The coverage via Charter Cable systems was great. I watched the race from my deck and TV at the same time.

If anyone would like to hang a banner from my Condo next year please let me know:D

We will DEFINATELY be back next year! Awesome time!

Thanks Cullin,

What a weekend. LOTO is just the best. Super fans, beautiful scenery and lot's of fast boats.

CRC had some game this weekend, I will say that. We (GEICO)had continuie to shave 1-2 secs a lap off and had closed the gap to 4.5 seconds . Both boats knocking 170mph down the back stretch Diving into turn one at speed and 165 up the front (turning around the greens). With three laps to go, pushing harder we were thinking we could catch them for a fight to the finish. Mike and Jeff are great guys it's really an honor to race with them. I hope the battle was good for the fans to watch. Cullin, unlike many people you have very good insight into racing.. You have to finish to win.


Marc
Miss G.

Heres the ass kicker... after our water hose blew on Sat we had some malfunctioning gauges. Thinking the fuel tanks were empty a crew member filled to the set point. Unfortunatly, for us the gauges were wrong and the boat ended up carrying an extra 200gals (1300lbs) of fuel for the race on sunday. ARRRRRRGH!

yikes! nothing like dragging an anchor.

This was some event, not knowing what to expect our grup was blow away by the show/turn-out. Yes we WILL be back next year.....BZ

WOW, it's cool to read all the positive responses. From the spectators and especially from the participants. I listened to the radio coverage ant Martin Sanborn commented several times about how much he was enjoying his first visit to LOTO.

Of course having special ordered the weather sure helped. Altho the wind was kind of a pain for all the boats that were trying to stay anchored.

Hope everyone had a safe trip home. See ya next year.

From saturdays race!! first turn! Mercury vs T-53, 2500hp vs 4000hp!

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...202007/CRC.jpg

GREAT SHOT:cool-smiley-027:

Great pic! CRC is gonna be tough to get around i dont care how much HP ya got. Those guys were on fire out there. Last couple of laps you could see Marc and Scotty were on a mission though and were coming on hard. Wow, great racing. wish i could have see the far end of the course it was tight and im sure exciting to watch from :cool:

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Could anyone tell me when this race will be view on TV. Dish no longer has the Water channel. Fox sports no idea when. HELP !!!