The question should be who has a former F1 or F2 boat interested in racing it again. The other question is what is engine rule? And finally, are newer boats allowed?

Once you establish a set of rules any boat that fits in the class should be allowed to run it's hard enough to build a class there's no reason to exclude anybody.

I kinda thought that was the original question and I also stated we would cross the engines bridge when I got 10-15 boats per class. The other point is why wouldn't new boats be allowed that's the only way this will grow!!!

My Kryptonite is retired from racing. The Velocity (F2) has 650HP Blower motors and is for sale at the end of the year. 25k no engines.
What exactly do you have in mind Sean?

Sean do you honestly think you can re invent the wheel using old wheels? I love the enthusiasm but it's just another ride on the merry-go-round.

This is my opinion and MY OPINION alone. Sean has a great idea, it was informally presented to me and I am listening, however, can not commit until a motor package is released to even see if it is even feasible to come back out with a 2 boat team. A perfect example is the Class 7 in OPA. A few years back they came out with the idea and called it S.O.B. and it had a ton of people interested, however it flopped. Over the past 2 years it was brought back to the table and now basically accounts for 1/3 of OPA's boat count.

Here are the hurdles I see Sean confronted with:
1) No one has a motor that is even close to being stock from the motors presented in the start of this thread, hence the cost of acquiring a new motor that Sean spells out
2) The location(s) of where this class would take place offers very limited to no tech with this being a "spec class"

The above is just the surface but with Sean's know how, can be easily overcome, Another thing I see if this transpires is you are cherry picking eligible boats from existing classes that since the Factory classes officially dissolved in 2008 will make the strong classes now depleted and instead of having 1 class with 10 boats, you now have 2 classes with 5 a piece so to speak for example purposes.

The Factory series was an incredible series and hopefully it can be re-invented to the modern era, but with my boat being the last Factory boat that competed, I got with the organization and canceled the class for a reason and relegated the boat to racing in the brackets.

Keep your head up Sean, besides myself I know there is a ton of people out there that will help you in any way, my only suggestion at this time is to get with Smitty and come up with a motor package, present it to the racers and you will either get commitments or lack there of. You need to take the bull by the horns as the racers dont need to be telling you and the organization the rules, you and Smitty need to dictate them and the racers either follow or dont

Factory racing was to promote NEW boats .
Leave the older boats alone ,they are fine where they are .

If you want tosee real factory race ,you need the constant influx of new factory built boats .

Mike, its a different time and economy, that was the original intent of the factory series, however, how many manufacturers do you see putting new boats out there on the circuit for marketing purposes. Formula was the last to make an attempt in 2010-2011 with a 2001 F2 382 .

That was my point , thank you . :drink:

I do happen to know where a certain Factory-1 Active Thunder is stored, and you have my attention. HOWEVER, If you are thinking of an "all Mercury Racing" spec engine, I'm OUT!
That would be re-living a part of offshore racing history that dropped the sport from the previously mentioned heyday, to the sad state it has become today.