Unified Championship
 

Posted on Wed, Jul. 07, 2004

Racing organizations agree on single championship in 2004

Associated Press

KEY WEST, Fla. - Three offshore powerboat racing organizations have agreed to stage a unified, season-ending world championship in Key West, officials said Wednesday.

The announcement to combine entries from Super Boat International Productions, American Power Boat Association Offshore Racing and the Offshore Super Series for one championship Nov. 14-21 comes after nine years of different racing organizations staging competing world championships.

The confusion has had offshore racing fans, corporate sponsors and even some competitors wondering where each year's true world championship was being held.

The agreement for a combined event came after months of negotiations.

"We have come to an understanding that somebody has to do something good for the sport," said Bob Bull, chairman of APBA Offshore. "We need to try to get things back on track like they were at one time."

For years, APBA was the lead sanctioning body for professional offshore powerboat racing in the United Stated. But in 1989, a group of disgruntled racers led by actor/racer Don Johnson separated and created a new organization called the Offshore Professional Tour.

Since then, several other organizations have formed and faded away. In 1994 and 1995, APBA and SBI staged combined world championships in Key West, but have raced separately since.

OSS was created last year, after many of its members separated from APBA and had their own world championship in Key West.

"Our teams are excited about racing boats (that will be) coming together from other circuits," said Elaine Motl, chief executive officer for OSS.

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OOHHHHH BOYYYYYYYYYYY! This is gonna be GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Count on Typhoon to be there. Should be well over 100 boats. What was the largest boat count ever at a single race???
MD

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near 150 in Key West 1995 I think.

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C :cool: :cool: L!!

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1994 APBA/SBI/USO=147 BOATS!

A Class was the largest with 34 boats.

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1995 was awesome.

Final World Championship Standings
Superboat Cat
1 Alcone Motorsports
2 Nuff Respect
3 Jaws
4 Budweiser
5 Breezes

Superboat Vee
1 La Gran Argentina
2 INXS
3 Admiral Casino Tivoli
4 Tweet Revenge
5 Cigarette Lady
6 Flyer

Open
1 Recovery
2 How Sweet It Is
3 Heavy Metal
4 Ohio Steel
5 Budweiser
6 Katana
7 Brooks Athletic Shoes
8 Zero Defect
9 Villa D' Este


Modified
1 Carlos N Charlies
2 Udderly Fantastic
3 Harry's Hoffbrau
Placement beyond 3rd not available at time of posting


Pro 1
1 Restore Marine Products
2 Patriot
3 High Risk
4 Risktaker
5 Pennzoil
6 Touchdown
7 Hobie Sunglasses
8 Euromarine Special
9 Venus Swimwear
10 Catch This
11 Kamikaze
12 Falcon Racing
13 Black Shadow

Offshore D
1 Ocean Spray
2 C.T. Peppers
3 Nightmare
4 Predator
5 Kal Kustom
6 How Sweet It Is Too
7 Team Eriesistible
8 Airborne
9 Priority
10 Rascal
11 Dragon Lady
12 J.H. Electric Special
13 Pepsi XL

Offshore C
1 Harrah's 777
2 No Mercy
3 Sierra/Klotz
4 American International
5 Sudden Impact
6 Courageous Cat
7 OPBRA's Intense
8 Cat Can Do
9 Armed and Dangerous
10 Locomotion
11 Slam Jams

Sportsmans B
1 Buzzi Buzzard
2 Obsession Race Team
3 Instigator
4 Gulfwind's Velocity
5 Mr. Technology
6 Great Lakes Caster
7 Heartbeat
8 Southwest Securities
9 Jawanna
10 Miss Calculation
11 Magic Potion
12 Powerplay Racing
13 Tsunami
14 B-Fast
15 Buckshot
16 High Seas Technology
17 Imagine That
18 Beeper City Racing
19 Mr. K/ Frank's Marine
20 Shockwave
21 Twocan Racing
22 Triton
-- Everglades Executioner

Stock
1 Conch Attack
2 Torco
3 Team Stalker
4 7 up The Uncola
5 Cutting Edge
6 Outcast
7 Secret Agent
8 Taz
9 Cobra

Production A
1 La Baby Argentina
2 Powerplay Racing
3 Archer Marine Scarab
4 Flashpoint
5 Excalibur
6 What's Instore?
7 Team Progression
8 Quarter King
9 Mediamaster
10 Frank's Marine/ Hooligans
11 Breathless
12 Tabu
13 Ale House Racing
14 Team Hog's Breath
15 Team Exciter
16 Scatterbrain
17 Ballistic
18 Pure Energy
19 Team Chicago
20 Team Hardcore
21 Shogun
22 Pantera
23 Final Persuasion
24 Wizard of Oz
25 Hart Throb
26 Pitman Photo
27 Duces-R-Wild
28 Final Notice

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Nice! :)

This is going to be the big one, the one we've all been waiting for!
Awesome!!!

Make your reservations now!!! :D :D :D

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Does this mean we can run 1995 rules? You know open run what you brung?
pat W

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It will be awsome to have one true WorldChampion in each class this year. All running under one banner and at the same time. Ohhhhh Boy all roads lead to Key west....

Frank
"Koolhand"