Randy,
I like that "one idea" per team thing. My idea wouldn't change any rules. My idea: lets race on Saturday, party like hell Saturday night, travel home Sunday. No rule change here. Many people can get Friday off easier than Monday. What do you think.
By the way Randy, your one idea per team thing is one of your better ideas!!!
Bob G

Guy's Im ok with what you decide on for class 5. If we like it the way it is then lets leave it. If you all feel some change can make the class bigger and better then lets discuss it.
MD

This is all good. I know there are a lot of you who want to see no changes. That is great. it means all is well. But, there is always some fine tuning that can only help. OPA is absolutely a racers organization. We will always do what is right for the teams. No one here should be criticized for your ideas. You never know where the next Brain storm will come from. Besides the boards have been a little quite lately. Have at it. Smitty

Class 5 should name their high points trophy "The Reiter Cup"

Rich

I do like the idea of a Saturday race and big party that night for the awards. And I agree with Smitty that there will always be some fine tuning to be done, but why not make OSS follow OPA rules or OPA follow SBI rules, etc...........I also agree with you Randy that there has been some good ideas from you.
Bottom line is I am all for UNITED WE RACE. And support the OPA rules. Why not go with the org that has the most boats and build on that. I would love to see how NASCAR got it done so we might be able to copy that. It sounds so easy but is not anywhere close to that.

Keep working on it and one day it will happen.

Nascar got it done because they had/have control of the racetracks. If you disagreed with Bill France on something
there was nowhere else to go. It was built on a dictatorship.


Rich

Damm, we can't do it that way then. There must be someway!

The one thing I heard all year that was not fair is not even being brought up....

HP....In Class 5 I thought the one thing you guys would want to get a handle on is the amount of HP you can run along with Class 6..in fact all the Class's....with prise money being paid out and no entre fee's....do you not see how our class's can get out of hand when you can continue to put in more and more HP and torque to win....if you have a low budget team running say a 450hp boat in Class 5 and some teams with some money to continue to keep putting in bigger HP and torque how compeditive do you think it will be....

Just a tought....stupid...maybe...but it would not be the first time....

Gino,
I think you have a valid point. Instead of prize money from 1st to whatever place, would racers be more receptive to race if "Tow Money" was awarded? This would take the sting out of being outspent on horsepower. The only extra thing the "winners" would recieve would be a trophy. The Hydros have used this (tow money) to build their fleet. Why not try this with Offshore?? For someone like me who is on a very limited budget, it might entice me to go to a Michigan race. It would also encourage midwestern racers to come east. Just throwing this out there......we have all winter to toss ideas around......

The tow money is not a bad idea, but as a class grows the amound of money would get kinda thin fast.