Champboat

[tacobellprop]

The first race of Champboat is only 3 weeks away. No one is interested in champboat or what???

So, what's new with Champboat this season? I hear Mike Seebold and Todd Bowden are coming back. What else is new???

[Tomtall]

Your right there is a lot of new news this year. Just visited their web site and I see Ted Nugent is playing at the Bay City river roar. Seebold says he'll travel to the ends of the world for the title.:cool: Check it all out at -----

http://www.champboat.com/



Thanks for jogging our memories Taco Bell !!! ;)

[Mark Poole]

Good news is the Champ boats are back in Augusta this year for the season opener. If you had ever been to this race the you know why I won't miss it. Who else is going to Augusta?

[fish]

Good news is the Champ boats are back in Augusta this year for the season opener. If you had ever been to this race the you know why I won't miss it. Who else is going to Augusta?

I'm gonna be there.

[tacobellprop]

They got no pics of the race yet.........F1boat.com has 400+ pics already after the race in France. They had like 50 pics already on friday. 100+ pics on saturyday. 100 on sunday. 100 on Monday, Tuesday or whatever........

I said this last year.....I didn't think I would have to say it again....."please do something about the website."

[Rob D]

Is the site up? I can't get on it. Wasn't sure if it's my computer or not.

Rob

[spn#43]

They got no pics of the race yet.........F1boat.com has 400+ pics already after the race in France. They had like 50 pics already on friday. 100+ pics on saturyday. 100 on sunday. 100 on Monday, Tuesday or whatever........

I said this last year.....I didn't think I would have to say it again....."please do something about the website."


Say it here;
tim@champboat.com
info@champboat.com

[Mark Poole]

Glad to see the Augusta race back on the tour. I enjoyed myself as always at the races. Very close and competitive racing.

One thing was very obvious. Spectator turnout for this race was poor. I talked to several people that live in that area and they said promotion and advertising was minimal. If the race sites are to be kept and the city to benefit from the race as well then the promotion department needs to do better. I have seen this race in its prime with great promotion be standing room only on the banks of the river. My 2 cents.

[tacobellprop]

maybe they are forgetting that they have a photo page........

[Skoontz]

"Spectator turnout for this race was poor."

I spoke to Bill Rucker for quite a while earlier today and he said the same thing... It seems many of the Champ boats have advertising on the sides....I think you gotta get the advetisers to help pick up the ball and run with it if they want people to read the sides of the boats!

[vishus]

are they ever coming to the WEST COAST again? I loved to go see them at Laughlin, it was great seeing everyone that we always read about. Greg "the madman on the water" Foste was awesome on the river, it was great to see him fly that tunnel on the ragged edge (he would drive that boat over the edge and come back fighting)...

I hope they decide to run in either San Diego or Laughlin again...

sid castle:D

[Skoontz]

Along with finding new drivers, there should be one prime region 12 priority....Water. There should be an all out task force assigned to finding water within reasonable driving range. There should be an anti knit wit patrol allieviating left wing whackos who frown at races because of the habitat of the long eared galloot and so on and so fourth. Bring water and they will come...And I think Lakeside California is soon to see lots of boat racing.....

[vishus]

I should do my research before I speak!!!

According to the schedule, they are going to race in my backyard at the "Grandprix of Tempe" (I would guess that is at Tempe Town Lake (I work two minutes away!!!)) If that is the venue, it will be a great spectators spot as the "lake" is narrow and you can see well from everywhere ( I often catch a few largemouth bass on lunch breaks there..)

AND their are showing SAN DIEGO on the schedule as well!!!

now if we can get Greg Foster to come back to CHAMP... oh well, I hope he races in the Parker Enduro again, then I can say I raced against the MADMAN...

cool...

sid

[Scott23]

Foster was going to race the Jensen's boat. I don't know how many races though.

[vishus]

that would be GREAT

[tacobellprop]

Was this ever aired in the States?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9HJXfERvGo

[spn#43]

Was this ever aired in the States?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9HJXfERvGo

Awsome video!
Thanks

[Ron Hill]

In 1956, we "Gave Up" trying to race a Lake Mead. Gary Grabrecht was quite a leader, but he could not control the weather. Lake Mead is BEAUTIFUL when it is BEAUTIFUL, but with 40 foot pleasure boats anymore, even when Mead is smooth is is rough.

The next September was close to perfect for the Formula One final. Mike Seebold won, Chad had a DNF, and as they were pulling Chad in, Michael Seebold was idleing by the shore at about the same speed as Chad was being pulled, THOUSANDS lined the shore, waist deep in water, and the women were flashing both drivers. I thought Boat Racing was on the "MOVE".

The next year, 1998, I worked for the Formula One Tour, and I saw the wheels coming off. Seems, now, Champboat is making gains again, but it is an up hill battle...

Gary had worked with Merc to run the 2.5's with a rev limiter, and HIS HONEST THINKING WAS that these new 2.5 with rev limiters would run all season. He had no knowledge that they'd be lucky to run a race...

As I understand it now, the new rev limiters do make these GREAT S-3000 motors live longer. The MERC S-3000 is really a great engine, but the rev limiters, shortened their lives...

Also, rev limiters, equaled out, some what, the speeds, and made it hard to pass and as Alden Thornton, Bill Seebold, Jr. Greg Foster, Scott Gilman, Rusty Campbell proved, the rev limiter makes blowing over EASIER...

OPINION HERE: Formula one was best when it was 2.0 liter...

But, it is easy to talk "HISTORY" than to talk in the present, where everyone is watching...seconding guessing....

[twd4]

Is that Rusty Cambell rolling over Seebold in that picture ? :eek:

I used to go to a few races around the south east every year to watch him dominate the modvp class. Ahhh the memories...

[Ron Hill]

Rusty was "BLASTING" arounbd the second corner at San Diego, and the afternoon breeze blows through the channel there. The boat liftred and basically blew over sideways.. The "SUCKER" was in the air for the longest time and when it hit you could hear every glue jojnt in the boat split. That was one of the best Hoffman Formula One boats built. Rusty has one one or two races with it that summer. It usually banked in the corners like a V-Hull. This time the wind lifted the corner and there whe went.

Fred Bowden bought the boat. Todd led several Formula One races with, then sold it to Chad Hill. We only raced one San Diego race with it, and Chad loved the boat. Randy Pierson bought the boat for a guy in PA. I waas told the boat was totaly destroyed in an accident in the PA area.

Chad and I had actually pulled a mold off the bottom and made a different deck, but with 9/11 business set backs, Chad went into teaching and we sold all Champboat/Formula One equipment.

Rusty's "BLOW OVER" was 1997, the year Jim Hauenstein was killed, Rusty's wreck looked and sounded TERRIBLE, but he walked away unhurt.

[Sunburnt]

I should do my research before I speak!!!

According to the schedule, they are going to race in my backyard at the "Grandprix of Tempe" (I would guess that is at Tempe Town Lake (I work two minutes away!!!)) If that is the venue, it will be a great spectators spot as the "lake" is narrow and you can see well from everywhere ( I often catch a few largemouth bass on lunch breaks there..)

AND their are showing SAN DIEGO on the schedule as well!!!

now if we can get Greg Foster to come back to CHAMP... oh well, I hope he races in the Parker Enduro again, then I can say I raced against the MADMAN...

cool...

sid

The Champ boat site says the Tempe and San Diego events are yet "to be confirmed." I just went to the city of Tempe site and the calander of public events has no mention of it either. It will really suck if the town politicians can't get there act together and let them race. ( they treat the place like it's lake Tahoe or something ) It would be an AWESOME Venue!

So for now I guess we wait with fingers crossed..

Jeff

[vishus]

city of TEMPE is currently "thinking" about it, if it doesn't go through, the backup plan is FIREBIRD lake, the IHBA and SS run there, no issues from the facility about boat racing...

[Sunburnt]

Cool!. Firebird would work well too..

[Sunburnt]

Does anyone know if the Phoenix / Tempe race is a go or a bust???:confused:

[Shaun Torrente]

Mike confirmed it again today, i spoke with him through email about an hour ago and he said it was definately a go!!!!

Shaun

[Allen J. Lang]

Running Champ boats in Tempe would be great. Big problem is that the town fathers, for the most part, do not allow power boats on the lake.:eek: One can only hope for the future. :cool:

[DKL]

If TOWN FATHERS , would see how much revenue and and exposure a Champboat race could bring in to the town, they might change their mind. especially if the local media did their part to play it up. Somebody invite them to the race at FIREBIRD let them see what it's all about.

[Ron Hill]

Seems to me, after going to a D-Backs game in Phoenix, that Phoenix, may like tourists but they have real fans, and real people who LOVE PHOENIX...

To me, the ONLY way to get a race at Tempe will be to come up with a CONCEPT to be SERVING THE COMMUNITY, as the Salt River is a COMMUNITY PROJECT...

Trafficade is owned by Jeff Johnson. Dennis Johnson is JEff's dad...Trafficade supports boat racing by owning a Sport,C, a National Mod Hydro, , an A hydro, aC hydro and sponsors Steven Dawe's 45 SS.... Using Trafficcade, who is a CO-Sponsor, it think, this weekend to the Firebird Drags....as the "GO TO" people would make sense.

My old FRATERNITY BROTHER'S dad was head sports writer of the Arizona Repulblic fo 25 plus years, his name was Frank Gianelli.... Having a race to HONOR Frank Gianelli and support children with birth defects/poverty/ something is how I see getting into TEMPE..

ADD: Champboat...e-mailed Bob Thompson to see what he's doing in 2008...(He sponored the Kentucky race in 2007 and owns the marina where the race was) has promised to bring Jim Boo, TURBO PROPELLERS JIM BOO, to the Blue Water Resort and Casino 300 Enduro in 2008...

Last AD: JAKE at Seaway Marine tells this about his Champmotor....Not sure if it is an Evinrude...or a JAKE...Motor for Champ is done. We have 10 built complete POWERHEAD'S. Getting ready to load the trailer and go racing for the 2008 Champ Boat Season. If the motor's work as good as we think they will - they will be available for purchase at the end of the season. I have enough parts to build 25 complete engines - Midsection - Gearcase - the whole works.