If you're Tank it's Duval ST

lol, whatever you need buddy!

like tank said there is a side to all this that hasn't been thought about or egos are to strong to mess with.


gave my to cents on things and was told to wait and see with a smile.

House reserved, flights bought. Leaving the cold for KW in Nov can't be all that bad........good racing or not.

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. However, it doesn't not square with the facts as presented to me through Miss GEICO team partners Scott Colton, Gary Stray and Marc Granet, Gary Goodell and Scott Begovich.

As you'd expect, GEICO's in-house marketing team tracks the referral business derived from all of its marketing efforts, including those from each venue/event in which the Miss GEICO offshore racing team competes. Races, air shows, boat shows—you name the event and GEICO's marketing people know exactly how much business was written out of it. Those numbers coming out of Key West, for whatever reason (endless distractions of Key West, etc.) have never produced an adequate return on the considerable investment required to have a team there for a week. (For the record, every racer I've ever asked about Key West cites it as the most expensive venue in the sport.)

Long before Steve Curtis began throttling for the team two years ago I heard this from the partners in the ownership group. While GEICO's revenue might be endless, its sponsorship support for the offshore racing team it backs is not. According to those partners, GEICO writes far more insurance out of far less expensive venues such as Englewood Beach than it does in Key West. So while there well may be hard feelings and resentments and biases and all the rest, it's a business decision—at least according to those people actually involved in making it. And it's something I've been hearing from them for years.

Of course there could be other factors within the decision. Like any team, Miss GEICO wants to be where it feels appreciated and valued and my understanding is that wasn't how they felt the last time they competed in Key West. But at the end of the day, it's a business decision.

You don't think skipping Key West serves GEICO—the company—as a sponsor. The team feels differently.

For the record, I love Key West as an offshore racing venue and speedonthewater.com has every intention of covering Race World Offshore's event there this year.

There are not enough teams in the entire country to have different sanctioning bodies and its been that way for years,we have seen in the past when they race together it is a lot better for everyone involved but EGOS have always been a factor in when and where they race its a shame and once again they cant set there differences aside and figure it out and work together for the betterment of the sport as well as sponsors I for one hope that somehow and someway during the year RWO AND OPA and P1 can find a way to come together for the 1st time in a long time when Mike Allweis did it and that is when the racing was at its best.

I'm not sure about last line? Lawyer who sued another racer how was that the best? Unite race leave the ego home! You are correct about ego and back stabbing killed Key West!

thank you for the clarification.
It needed to come from someone with credibility