re Waynes pictures from La Crosse
Picture # 3 is Jim Teitge from Cedar Rapids, Ia. Looks like a flathead on his boat, and if only RB and F-350 ran, he may have been either racing or testing his RB rig. He is a dentist and now lives on the east coast and is a college professor in a dental school, can"t remember where. N. or S. Carolina I think. After moving and quitting boat racing, he still needed something exciting in his life, so he started brewing beer. And I don't know "the rest of that story"about that.
Picture #4 I am sure is Bill Rucker driving one of Doc Collins runabouts. Billy was one of those drivers that was easily recognizable because of the way he kneeled in the boat and also his spiffy racing goggles. Think he won the SST-120 class Series Championship a couple of years ago, that they run with the Champ Boat shows.
After looking at those pictures after all these years, with the water conditions the way they were, there is no doubt the right decision was made to cancel the Nationals scheduled there, and I don't remember any doubt at the time.