NEW Racing Class - Unlimited Offshore
 

OSS approved the rules and NAME change for the old turbine extreme class. All owners and drivers agreed to open the class up to all and create the fastest No rules racing class ever.


RULES FOR UNLIMITED OFFSHORE CLASS

I. General-

A .Name change from Turbine Extreme to Unlimited Offshore

B. Race length-80 mile minimum

C. Saturday qualifying for lane choice

1. Unlimited Offshore Class boats will run 3 qualifying laps on the Saturday before race day at a specific time designated by OSS to determine lane choice.

2. Lap 1 will be a warm up lap followed by 2 hot laps

a. Hot laps will be timed by an OSS official

b. Fastest lap speed earns lane choice for Sunday race followed second

fastest etc.

c. Qualifying order to be determined by drawing numbers at Friday

drivers meeting.

d. Qualifying time to be determined at or before Friday drivers

meeting or before.



II Technical-

A. Hull type- No Restrictions- Catamaran, Vee, Trimaran etc.

1. Length- 40ft minimum (running surface)

2. No maximum length restriction

B. Engine specs- No restrictions- Turbine or Piston allowed

1. No restrictions on performance modifications, no flame show or after

Burners allowed

2. Fuel-No restrictions

3. Number of engines-No restrictions

4. Exhaust-Water cooled, insulated, or coated only for turbines, no restrictions on piston powered boats

C. Transmissions-No restrictions

D. Rudders:

1. Materials-Stainless steel, steel, or titanium allowed

2. Shape-No restriction

3. Depth- No restrictions

4. Trim and lift allowed

5. Integrity- rudders must be x-rayed at least twice per year

6. Documentation must be provided

I like this a lot. I always wanted to see Geico and Bud Select/Light go head to head in the past.

Nice!

This is great! I really like this. A free for all unlimited class. I think this will be an exciting year with some great racing. Good job OSS. :ernaehrung004:

COOL! Run what Ya' brung and hope Ya' brung enough....

I like that too...don't get me wrong, I loved watching Gieco, JBS and Aquamania go at it at the worlds, but I think with this change there will be more competition among the big boys

That is cool,,,,,,hopefully th8ngs will change to the best !!!!

Will they require forward-neutral-reverse capability? Believe this was a rule before...

So 55s will be the needed turbine to compete?

Good question. With no restrictions the AMF Mystic with 55s is legal and so would be Howard Arneson's 46Skater with one 4500hp turbine.

Not really,
Team Geicos Mystic is at Turbine Marine right now getting re-rigged with T 53 -703 (1850 HP).
This will be the engine choice for this team, and the others for the OSS racing in 2009.
Team Geico will use there T-55's to set speed records when team owner gives the go !!
Looking forward to an great season.

How long are most of the courses they run on?Do they do at least a 8-10 mile course?

Sould be fun to see on Lake Michigan!!

The race between Gieco and Bud Select in St Clair in 2007 was the most exciting I have ever seen. They were running down the 4 mile straight on the Canadian side at 170 side by side the whole race. Can't remember how many laps, at least 10. I'm looking forward to seeing more like that. :ernaehrung004:

But are there still two "unlimited" classes? Or will Bud, CRC, Cintron and CMS now be racing heads up with Geico, Aqua Mania, and JBS? I sure hope so because that would be some awesome racing.

The piston boats now have the "option" to choose the class and race a long course with the Unlimited boats (geico,warbird,aqua,jbs) or they can stay in the "piston extreme" and race each other on a short course. (Less laps , thanks RB)

The actual course will be the same but the boat will go a longer distance / more laps.

Good to hear. Best of luck to you guys, I know the Mystic has not been an easy project.

Thank you,
However it has been no big deal at all.
My guys are very good, and this one will be ready to race in a total of 8 weeks in the shop.
We will have it up and running for the big NEW Geico TV commercial that they will be filming on the 8th of Jan.
Happy Holidays

No afterburners? I feel cheated. :D

just kidding. Should be awesome.

So this will be where the Cat Killer will be able to race the cats right ? :evilb:


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May we have a visual please .... :ernaehrung004:

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Will Detroit be on the schedule???? Would Gieco run against the Unlimited Hydro class??

(geico,warbird,aqua,jbs)


WARBIRD??? Tell us more Marc.

if they extend the course out into lake Michigan :)

Hi Marc (2)

You and the rest of the teams have a great 2009....

Would Sarasota be more reasonable??:drink: