Michigan City Grand Prix 2013 Pics and Info

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Beautiful weather and water for an offshore race.

A few from the first race..

The beach was pretty well packed. Great support from the sponsors in Michigan City

 

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Heading out to mill time



Race Time

 

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Anyone wondering what the bottom of the 29 Outerlimits design looks like???

 

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That does look like a good sized crowd !

 

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A link to SBI's video's of the two races. The big cats were flying high.

RACE 1 on Michigan City 2013

 

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Heading in after the first race is over.



Daredevil had oil pressure problems and had to withdraw early.
Kilt broke a drive again.
JD Byrider won SVL over Snowy Mountain
Lucas was unopposed
S19 was unopposed

Cats were JD Byrider, Stihl, then WHM.

 

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A few of the spectator boats during the intermission.

 

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Heading out for race 2

 

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Scotty flying high in the second race. No oil pressure problems this time. He ran really strong for his competition being out of it with the broken drive. It will be interesting to see how the year plays out for him. He bought the new Fountain to run triple engine P3, then was going to run the single engine actually a P4 boat, until the twin engine was done. Now he has the P3 crown sewn up, all he has to do is show up at the remaining couple of races. Will they let him keep his points if he runs the entire season with a "temporary" boat? We'll see. Kilt can't be happy if that happens......

 

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I spent a bit of time chating with Doc after the races. There was a huge difference in Snowy between the way it handles durting the first race and the last. He said they moved a bunch of weight forwardand it made a huge difference in the handling. The first race Byrider won, Snowy won the second.

 

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Byrider was kind of the opposite. I finally got to meet and chat with Mike, they ran really strong the first race, had some kind of an issue part way into the second race and couldn't keep the performance up.

 

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Byrider also ran really strong. They were well out in front when a header broke apart and almost caught the boat on fire. But, up until that happened, they were flying...