We have always had accelerometers in our boat recording data to be correlated after.

Our engines will now have them as well ...!

While on this subject. Why is it that at a race these days there are SO many boats racing alone in their class. People hack on the unlimited boats for racing no one!!!?

agian BS. i was also in havasu and like most of the other races i've watched and seen telemetry from the turbines run almost the same speeds as the SC's in the corners. as for hooking sideways??? WTF is that lame azz quote. you guys ran around the outside by yourselves like a demo ride for Bayliner, took the checkered flag in the class of one and than you got up at the awards and personally thanked aruda for all his hard work. you guys are clueless!!!!!!!!!!!!

as for race experience. i don't recall you guys every racing supercat? could you explain the progression.

here's the way most view it. you guys raced F2 did pretty good. did a demo ride oncein a SC and than a few yrs pasted and jumped into turbine.

No...not really....all of the single and two boat classes are boring...you guys are just spectacularly boring.

As far as all the spectators not caring about how many boats are racing as long as you throw a big roostertail and go whoosh........... Tell that to real race fans....not people simply out there getting a sun tan and a buzz on.

Joey...I admit that I am older and my glory days of racing are long past.....and.....I have no doubt that you would race against 50 boats if they showed up...but they don't...... and therefore...... you don't...... in fact you basically race against just as many boats as I do these days....none. As a matter of fact ...when I run my Switzer wing at Antique events the inboard hydros get all racy with me.... Theres a lot of them...... and we all throw roostertails and go "whoosh" too......... :D

The fact is that racing was so much better years ago that there is no sane comparison. Regardless of the speed....20+ boats in a class is much better racing than one.....especially if it delaminates........in pre race testing.

T2x

and agian, most other classes (production) have atleast 2-4 other boats. if not most of the time opa moves them into a class so they run against others.

extreme class is the only class that i see were the competitor, namely geico, runs around by themselves on a fairly regular basis. the thing that is sad and lame about this is that they have 2 boats back at the shop that could easily be raced in Legal supercat spec. so why ......................

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who r u skater dave...what do you race? what have you done? what do you have to do with racing? apparently so much more than me (us). and if you have then you should be proud of what you have done.

"looked like a demo ride for bayliner" never seen a bayliner do 206.8 as we did in our "demo" run at havasu!

"did a demo ride in a SC" never recall any demo riding in my life.

"extreme class is the only class that i see were the competitor, namely geico, runs around by themselves on a fairly regular basis. the thing that is sad and lame about this is that they have 2 boats back at the shop that could easily be raced in Legal supercat spec. so why ......................"

i have made a living racing a bicycle...racing motorcycles, testing and developing engines, and racing powerboats. SO to answer your question of "WHY"....how about.....to make money!!!...i am sure all the employees of geico racing are not there because they love and want to support the insurance company and are doing so out of the kindness of their hearts. but again, you would have to ask them as this is just my mere observation.

T2x...i have never seen in offshore racing where all the boats in the class have been grouped together after 5miles?

racing gp motorcycles professionally was just an accomplishment to get your card... for some to qualify for the 50 racer grid. 7th was the best i could ever do before i retired. i was disappointed having won a ton of races as an amateur and expert and sometimes with ease. take everyone on the planet and put them in one place you have some real competition. offshore racing has never seen this, nor will it!

bicycle racing, i admittedly hate the training but love the racing. again making a meager living from it i loved winning, it's why i raced. at the larger pro races i was just a nobody looking to get into the money and pay the rent. i was not delusional in thinking i was going to win...sometimes looking to hang on! lol

now for BOAT RACING; while i have made some money and won some races...my sense of pride and the real victory for me has been all the work i have done prior to the race. be it rigging, testing, building hundreds outdrives, or the hundreds of hours i have spent working on the bottoms. so right now i am working my ass of day and night "racing" myself; so we can race ourselves... and set a world speed record!

ps...my throttle seat is always open. bring your checkbook and i am sure jeff will let you give 'r a try. if you think you can run a boat better and safer than me at 200mph? have at it!

Back on topic......How about posting the inboat video of the two turbines exploding? It would be interesting to see and hear how it all transpired.

When we were racing Grand Prix hydroplanes in 88 thru 92 anywhere from 30 to 36 boats would be at any given site to compete for a 8 boat final. 15 or so teams were capable of winning at any given time. As soon as certain teams started dominating many of the little guys went by the wayside because they were no longer competitive.