How do you explain Rick Bowling who raced his Talon for years, driving and throttling. Won many many big water races and was always competitive at the top of Supercat fleet. How about Craig Furgeson, Renegade Skater a 2x world Supercat World Champion, driving and throttling. Rod Karnofel, Honker Cut Marine Skater, Driving and Throttling, rough water expert and always competitive won lots of races....

I have run a foot throttle in big water, didn't have a problem with it at all but not everyone likes the same thing.
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If they did it on the Pemlico River where their factory used to be located I would highly doubt the two man setup won every time. Just dosent make sense

It takes 2 hands on the wheel in a turn when running hard. In my opinion, You can't turn the boat, trim and throttle as effectively by yourself as a 2 man team. One race in Marathon, my throttle man couldn't make it so I took a friend with no experience. I drove and throttled which I thought was a good idea. I got my ass handed to me in every turn.

Yes, agreed and if you also have control of the steering wheel you have even more control, possibly complete control which should be the goal.

And let's all take a breath and remember why two person operation was implemented in the first place. It was invented so that the SUPER WEALTHY OWNER of the boat could have something to do other than sit on the dock and be a cheerleader, and have a job that they probably woudnt screw up too badly with a hired gun throttleman/setup Guy sitting next to them coaching them through it.... just sayin

somewhere theres video of Reggie talking about this. think it was at a Fort Myers offshore race back when he was running a red cat with diesels. he was talking about how in most cases its a 2 person operation but he, being Reggie did both. think they blew a motor.
actually I think it was on a tv show about fast boats on Discovery or one of them.
I think some who come from other single operator race boats such as apba inboard or F1 think that its a possibility or better way.

Both have big kahunas to run those speeds to begin with! I've been 102 GPS (not on mine obviously) and that was doable with one person. Two would really be a plus especially like all others said. When in a racing environment i would believe "Two heads are better than one". But I can see where the one person could work as well. As your reactions are connected in a way. Try and having a throttle man and driver in a drift car. Wouldn't work out to well.
Oh but if you not racing and in a poker run you can run 150 all day by yourself for those with big ego's!

I drive & throttle and my Rev Limiter is in the Port seat yelling instructions.. :lolhit:
Sorry, had to say it..

I would think you'd almost have to read you're co-operators mind when dodging through objects (boats) like I've seen in some of these poker run videos, to much speed (or not enough speed) on one side of a boat or another could be bad, real bad.

I've got one of those too, but her name is Terri.