Great Lakes Grand Prix 2023, OPA

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Saturday, August 5, 2023

10am-12am Race Village open to the Public
7:30am Physicals (Teams racing on Saturday ONLY)
8am Racer Meeting for ALL Teams @ Senior Center
8am-5pm FUELING TRUCK OPEN
9am Set Turn Markers
8am Boat Ramp & Crane Operational
9am Race Control Operational
10am BOAT RACING - Class 4, Class 6 & Class 7
11am-2pm OFFSHORE TESTING
2pm Time Trials - ClassONE/Unlimited
2:30pm BOAT RACING - Super Stock
4:30pm Parade & Block Party Staging
5:30pm Parade
6pm‐8pm Downtown Street Party

Sunday, August 6, 2023

9am Race Village Open
7am Set Course Buoys
6am Racer Physicals @ Senior Center
7am RACERS MEETING @ Senior Center
8am Medical/Dive briefing @ Senior Center
8am Patrol Briefing @ Senior Center
8am Boat Ramp & Crane Operational
8am Race Control Operational
9am Course Support Fleet on station
10am-5pm BOAT RACING
RACE 1 - Class 2, Class 3, Class 5, Mod Vee, Stock Vee
RACE 2 - ClassONE/Unlimited
RACE 3 - SUPER CAT
RACE 4 - FACTORY STOCK, VEE EXTREME
7pm Awards Ceremony - Blue Chip Casino

 

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[Ratickle]

Forecast has changed again. Rain today now, tomorrow looks great.

We shall see. Hopefully it stays south today, it shows barely hitting Michigan City, the bulk of the rain south.

Fingers crossed.

 

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Well, we got soaked. The rain did not stay south, and the races weren't done in time to beat the rain.

Oh well, at least we had the opportunity to see some good racing.

 

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Not a good say for the Dirty Money race team. We will try to upload the video, but it was a trip and stuff that broke the boat.

Thankfully the cockpit did exactly what it was supposed to do, both Bill and Rusty were fine. Did not even get wet until they opened the escape hatch and got out.

 

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Thanks to Shane Sherman for this video capture.

 

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[Ratickle]

The boat should be at Skater this week, maybe tomorrow.

The word from the recovery team is the water was a little less than 10' deep there, and with the waves on Sunday, and the troughs between the waves, it may have been as shallow as 6 or 7 feet.

Anyway, they said the boat did strike bottom when it stuffed. Watching the video, makes sense as to the abrupt stop that seemed really odd.

Thank God the boat safety cockpit was strong enough to where the occupants did not even get wet until they opened the bottom escape hatch.

They said when they did that, the water there was really cold!

 

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[Pete B]

wow

 

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