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I'm at the New Orleans race today. Great racing and action. Wish more boats were here. But the live feed was awsome! Great job being done! They had a big screen tv set up for watching also. I watched from shore plus my wife had it on her phone. You guys that are following Xinsurance are following the wrong person. He has an agenda and is using the boat racers. And he can't even get a good production with his fancy helicopter! Such an ego maniac idiot! Learn from the past people! Get along and race together.

New Orleans coverage was pretty good yesterday!!! Hope for the same today.

I don't know the specifics, but "cheap" is not what companies desire. It is a return on the investment, whatever the investment level may be. I would almost bet that if a company sponsored a race boat for $50,000 vs spending $50,000 on a social media campaign focused on the targeted customer, the social media campaign would win about any day. That said, sponsoring a boat is definitely can definitely be more "sexy". Horrible coverage, at some point, will even take the "sexy" away.

some riff happend and that was the reason for the low boat numbers. not sure what it was but always seems to be something in the world of boat racing..........

the riff was created by x insurance. He's going to ruin the sport with his crap. He's dividing the racers. I hope people wake up and unite to get the boat numbers up in all races.

Same thing has been happening for 30+ years.

unfortunately, that is a true statement. But I really felt things were going in a good direction with P1 and APBA. Then this guy shows up, with his helecopter and videos all the boats racing around with his name on the side and now wants a new organization instead of APBA. Which has been around forever. It's pretty obvious to me that he's into it for himself. Not the racers. He wants to save money by having less safety personnel. I really hope this can be worked out. For the good of the racers and the sport as a whole.

You are strongly misinformed. WPRA is not a Xinsurance only org by any means. It is made up of boat builders, boat racers, promoters, marketers, etc. Xinsurance has been helping racers out for years. Sponsoring many bracket class teams, Pro Class -1 teams etc. They have also provided race teams with awesome coverage for absolutely free! Also have helped out Jeff from freeze frame and a whole host of other people. This new org started as a result of an agreed upon arrangement between APBA and the Pro Class-1 owners group falling through so the team owners got together and started WPRA to do there own thing not under APBA sanctioning. Just like OPA, lake of the ozarks, Michigan city, Chicago, Clear Water, Key west race sites. Obviously the race teams have decided to race with WPRA as well as P-1/APBA. It’s confusing and frustrating and wish this never happened. But trashing a man that has helped out many race teams and people and not asked for a dollar is not right.

I think there are some small, reasonable things that can be done to dramatically improve the camera coverage at least. I would like to see the organization take a page out the the King of Hammers book, and give racers the opportunity to mount their own cameras and broadcast box, so that the production booth can use those feeds. This is very popular in the off-road scene, its quite affordable, and lets the producers dial in to almost every truck on the course.

Second, we need more aerial/drone footage. This whole bit of having the xinsurance helicopter chasing the entire race, but having no live footage from it is bull****. If they are not willing to share footage for the broadcast, then we need a couple drones in the air at the corners chasing boats, and the xinsurance heli can ****off and fly around the drone zones.

Third, a good recap video put up on YouTube highlighting all the good racing and close calls and cool moments. The week after the race. We need short format, action packed videos. Or at the very least, a condensed broadcast that features only the racing and not the hours of waiting in between.

I know that we race fans can always use more footage especially live on the course. Hoping that we get to see more of that.