As a fan I am trying to learn about this stuff, I know your thread got a lot of blood boiling so my interest was peaked. I checked out racing sites and I wrote a reply based on my obervations as a fan. Low and behold when I pushed reply to thread I found you deleted it Since you arroused my interest, and I still have unanswered questions I am going to post what would have been my reply on your thread, so that others in the know can enlighten me

1. What is U.I.M (I sort of know know from reading Gordo's stuff)

Donna-If you are confused join the crowd of other fans,racers,sponsors,promoters and producers that are also confused.Our team was honored to receive a check from GMC/APBA for our second place in their supercat class we are also very disapointed in their failure to list the real winners of the world championship.This clearly shows their path of the future especially regarding unification as they have already announced their own worlds next year.The SBI website is correct and the OSS website has not been updated at my last glance,but I am confident they will also list the winners.As far as U.I.M goes it covers classes in Europe that are completely different than America and the title means very little to the majority of American offshore racers.I hope you continue to follow our sport and pray that we make it more understandable for the fans who are our future.I also wanted to tell you how much we enjoyed racing in St. Clair and Grand Haven Mich. this year.The fans were wonderful to us Southern Boys. Gary Supercat 57

Hey Donna...i couldnt have said it better myself

I not sure I understand, (remember I am blond ) are you agreeing with me or disagreeing, the makes it unclear

Donna,

In the mind of "most" old school racers it was a true world championship. No a.p.b.a. ,

s.b.i. or oss difference. Three races one winner. Result= 1 world champion. per class Just my .02

Stan

Donna, I hope this helps:

#1 Click here for the History of U.I.M.

#2 Yes, That is what we were all lead to believe. Some APBA Racers seem to have known otherwise since earlier in the season.

#3 Yes

#4 As the way it should have been. In my opinion, if all 3 associations agreed to acknowledge all the memberships as "ONE" for the Key West Races, then the winners should have won both the Fountain Powerboats Key West World Championship as well the U.I.M. Championship.

#5 They may have only been covering the National Point standings. I'm am sure an update to the site will be coming soon covering the Worlds.

#6 Agreed!!! That was one of the reasons for the controversy last night on that other thread. I apologize for getting a bit out of control last night, but no one is going to tell me I have no position to speak. My money is just as green as the next fan's or promotor's and I left plenty of it in Key West too!
Here are the results side by side. I hope I was able to answer some of your questions.
Nice to finally meet you at the OSO Party!

SBI's Info.................................................. .................APBA's Info

Key West World Champions......................................... .....APBA/UIM Champions


Superboat Unlimited.........Bacardi Silver............................Bacardi Silver
Superboat Cat ...................Pro Marine................................Pro Marine
Superboat Vee Unlimited...Rio Roses..................................Rio Roses
Superboat Vee...................Rodriguez Group Fountain........Lightning Strikes
Superboat Vee Limited......Wild Ride..................................Extreme Vortec
Superboat Limited Cat.......In Mocean ................................Team CRC
Superboat Stock ................Mapei
Factory 2 ...........................JBS Racing............................... JBS Racing
Factory 1 ...........................Team SB Ballard Construction..SB Ballard Construction
Manufacturer Prod. 1.........Lightning Jacks
Manufacturer Prod. 2.........Sony..................................... ....TKO/Obsession
Manufacturer Prod. 3........ Wazzup......................................Fortre ss
Manufacturer Prod. 4.........Herbott Swipes Racing ..............Herbott Racing
Manufacturer Prod .5..........Kean University Cougars............High Priorty

i'm gonna stick with pleasure boating... it's not nearly as confusing...

#6 Agreed!!! That was one of the reasons for the controversy last night on that other thread. I apologize for getting a bit out of control last night, but no one is going to tell me I have no position to speak. My money is just as green as the next fan's or promotor's and I left plenty of it in Key West too! posted by Sharkey

No need to apologize, you were not out of line, one of the reasons the event has been perceived as a success was because of fans like us spending money in KW . I thought you and others made some very valid points, that is why I decided to look at the race sites and think about this issue. It is a shame that a few overbearing posters caused Typhoon to feel he had to delete the thread.

As several have said everyone knows who the winners are. While there is some truth to that, not everyone was at KW or frequents OSO. So I wonder where those people go to get race results. Hopefully they are not relying on the APBA for the results of the Key West Worlds, if so then a lot of well deserving race teams are getting shafted by omission. It would be one thing if it was explained like on the OSS site, but they flat out called it the worlds. Not all us fans know how to read between the lines

I would never try to comment on regulations, motors, props, classes or any topic like that, but something simple like posting race results should be a no brainer. You should report a race event as it was won, not use the results of a sub category and make it appear as it was the main event. In political terms, I think one might say the APBA was doing a little spin doctoring.