This is no rummor or hear say!! I saw APBA Pres. Stan Fitts at the SBI N.Y. race Fri. & Sat. all over the pitts. Then I saw him (Stan Fitts) go on the Super Boat Bus with John Carbonell and stay for over an hour. Is something finnally comming together? Is Mike A. being booted out for Carbonell??? Wouldn't that chap Mike A."s ass!!!!!!
Did anybody see that big Cambells Chunky Soup tour bus at the SBI tent. Is Cambells going to be a new sponsor for SBI?

Who the hell is Stan Fitts?? I thought Ted Zoli was president(who replaced Mike A quite a few months ago, btw).

Who's who in APBA boat racing:


APBA President is Mike Jones
APBA VP is Don Allen Sr
On Nov 1, Charlie Strang will become Chairman of the Board for APBA
Stan Fitts is a past APBA President, and current member of APBA's Board of Directors
Other APBA Directors include:
M. Jones, D. Allen, C. Strang, B. Seebold, F. Hauenstein, Z. Boettle, M. Wheeler, J. Codling, A. Grabinski, G. Jacobsen, M. Allweiss, and E. Dawe
http://www.apba-racing.com


APBA-Offshore LLC is a limited liability corporation, which licenses Offshore racing from APBA.
APBA-Offshore LLC's President is Ted Zoli
http://www.apbaoffshore.com

Thanks BK!

I can't imagine Big John giving up his biz for an APBA-gig.....but working TOGETHER with APBA would damn sure be nice....

I have known Stan Fitts for a long time! He is a major force in APBA! t2x will tell ya that!

Maybe they are just old friends chatting about life in general...It was nice to see some of the APBA boys there, including Lee Murray and the rest of the Nick Carter Racing Team, what a class act...Thanks again to Anthony and Karen for rescuing me in Marathon, it was great to see you guys again...Hope to see you soon...

Wasn't Carbonell an APBA offier before he went over to the dark side.

Mike A is still the CEO of APBA offshore.

Carbonell was the southern division of APBA and ran Key West for APBA.

It all started when the super big ego guys, Al Copeland, Chuch Norris et al wanted their owns series so they would need to share the spotlight with the smaller classes. Al hire John to start and run OPT, Offshore Proffessional Tour. Then SBR, Superboat Racing, then SBI, Superboat International.

If anyone can bring things together, it would be Stan Fitz.

So it looks like that Stan is the only one that Carbonell will talk to from the APBA offical org.