Bobby Sanders...the Name is Right There...
Bobby...
When I DREAMED UP MOD VP RACING........my goal, as it is today, was to have a class that when the gun fires, you race.......Too rough??? Take up drinking full time....When I come to an ENDURO I don't want the SOB stopped until it is over....
When I won Chicago to Milwaukee to Chicago in a 17 foot boat....trust me, there were 10 foot waves on Lake Michigan...not the whole time......John Schubert, just at a few places....
Ross D. Boss and me talked today. IF we are to REBUILT OUR SPORT, we must look at the millions of past mistakes, and try to not make them again.
My son, Chad Hill, is racing 45 (Formula Lights)....which Ross has a pretty good little circuit going...but, at the races I see my mind wondering back to 1956....No, no, no, I can't go there...we need to move to what real people would want.........
AND I believe it is a boat that they could use on the weekends and race sometimes if they wanted to race......This could be a 14 foot boat or a 24 foot boat...
To be quite honest, two things really hurt my wife in boat racing:
One was the Mini Boat Enduro, where she had a 30 horsepower motor with an aluminum prop (C-NOD) racing in the same Enduro with 40 Horsepower motors, with Stainless props on tunnel hulls...The race was scheduled for five hours....Long story, but her three vee hulls with WOMAN drivers were running 2,3, and 4 OVERALL...Oh, there were MODIFIED 40's too...The officials called the race because it was TOO ROUGH...NOT ONE C-NOD had turned over and we had six women drivers, two of which this was their first race...
The straw that finished my wife was at San Diego when the tunnel MEN complained to the officials that the Women Vee Bottoms made the water too rough...That was my wife's last race... She has never been back into it like she was....Of course, Jimmy Hauenstein's death....with Chad as his team mate...didn't help either.
But my point....We NEED boats that RACE DAMN IT...no matter what the water is...Ever heard of an OFFROAD race being cancelled???? (Because the road was too rough???)
I feel your pain, Bobby, (I knew that he isn't Barry)...and we may never be able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again!!!!
Ron
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Mod VP Shootout - August 1981 - St. Louis
1. Al Stoker in the winning Baker Ralleysport Tunnel. Al also won the Radar Runs on Saturday using my Ron Hill 14.5 X 32 Cleaper.
20 The transom of the modified Hydrostream Viking driven by Ron Baker To second place.
3. The Roark Summerford Lazer driven by Alan Miller.