Ron Hill
11-03-2010, 07:57 PM
I looked on line at Hydroracer.net and they had 52 people on line. I looked at Performance Boats, they had 333 on line. I looked at BRF, no advertisers, no real agenda, just boat racing, we had 348 on line.
I must admit, I do have an agenda, and that agenda says EVERYONE should own a race boat.
I talked to and EX boat racer today. His son and daughter raced. He grew up next door to a boat racer whose son and daughter raced. So, this guy didn't just fall off the turnip truck.
This guy is 57 years old, and has just helped a man get his two daughters racing, but he had some comments that I thought everyone should consider.
1. Everyone is busy and to HAVING to get to a boat race at seven in the morning to race at three thirty makes little sense. Why does eveyone have to be at the driver's meeting? Don't you know the rules? Show up for the race, go home, play soccer!
2. Saturday racing SUCKS. The new guy, not knowing his *** FROM A TWO BLADE PROPELLER comes out and races, runs last or turns over, while the OLD PRO gets their points.
3. Points should be for the race. Another words...400 points in the MAX you get for a weekend. 200 on Sat and 200 on Sunday, or 400 points for Sunday's race. NO ****ING DOUBLE POINTS for a local race!
4. New races for the first three years, should have a advocate on the judges stand to help them to NOT be disqualifed for all kinds of bull ****. If a new person wins, usually, they get DQ'd for something.
5. APBA is SLOW to modernize....NO **** SHERLOCK!!!!
Anyway, this guy has no plans to get back into racing but is helping me get some water for a race. It is amazing to me to run into people, all the time, who have quit because of the BULL **** in boat racing.
Randy Pierson is going to a Go Kart Race in Las Vega, this month, November 2010, where they are limiting the cars to a class to 80, 6 vlasses, 480 entries. $800 entry fee.
Randy tells me when he quit boat racing and went Go Karting with his kids, he felt he'd died and gone to heaven. He says, you show up to a track late, they welcome you and ask if you need test time. He says, they bust *** to make you feel and be welcome. Free entry fee for out of area drivers...
MORE RANTING LATER!
I must admit, I do have an agenda, and that agenda says EVERYONE should own a race boat.
I talked to and EX boat racer today. His son and daughter raced. He grew up next door to a boat racer whose son and daughter raced. So, this guy didn't just fall off the turnip truck.
This guy is 57 years old, and has just helped a man get his two daughters racing, but he had some comments that I thought everyone should consider.
1. Everyone is busy and to HAVING to get to a boat race at seven in the morning to race at three thirty makes little sense. Why does eveyone have to be at the driver's meeting? Don't you know the rules? Show up for the race, go home, play soccer!
2. Saturday racing SUCKS. The new guy, not knowing his *** FROM A TWO BLADE PROPELLER comes out and races, runs last or turns over, while the OLD PRO gets their points.
3. Points should be for the race. Another words...400 points in the MAX you get for a weekend. 200 on Sat and 200 on Sunday, or 400 points for Sunday's race. NO ****ING DOUBLE POINTS for a local race!
4. New races for the first three years, should have a advocate on the judges stand to help them to NOT be disqualifed for all kinds of bull ****. If a new person wins, usually, they get DQ'd for something.
5. APBA is SLOW to modernize....NO **** SHERLOCK!!!!
Anyway, this guy has no plans to get back into racing but is helping me get some water for a race. It is amazing to me to run into people, all the time, who have quit because of the BULL **** in boat racing.
Randy Pierson is going to a Go Kart Race in Las Vega, this month, November 2010, where they are limiting the cars to a class to 80, 6 vlasses, 480 entries. $800 entry fee.
Randy tells me when he quit boat racing and went Go Karting with his kids, he felt he'd died and gone to heaven. He says, you show up to a track late, they welcome you and ask if you need test time. He says, they bust *** to make you feel and be welcome. Free entry fee for out of area drivers...
MORE RANTING LATER!