Robert I crewed and cared for Joker. Art Lilly and Stoney ran it. Yes I remember well the day in Bay City they beat the boys.. Their old man was ****ed. They had to run the **** out of it to beat them. Plus they used to race 110 miles or so.
To answer your question about circle racing..I will try.. It is so different. The race is most often decided at the moment the first boat initiates turn one. Who has position at that moment.
When you try to explain how different it is to people that haven't experienced it. I always am reminded of the same thing. Try to explain to your kids these days that phones used to be tethered to the wall with wires. What is the look in their eyes? They can't even comprehend.
Factory2 was the most challenging. We used to race 80 miles an courses with 10 plus mile laps. I started racing just after the course started getting so short. I crewed and rigged boats for 10 years before that. Those days the races were always 100 miles or more. Some classes as much as 150 miles.
Everything now is a "drivers course" It used to be the throttle man was more important.
It used to be an endurance race .They are all sprint races now by comparison.
Morning,,,,well said Jim.
The thing is ,,i think the fans changed too.
Even tough some of them don't understand whats going on ,,they whant to see it.
Thats why i think the real long coarses are OUT !!!!
Would i like to do them,,,yes,,,i think every racer would. But its what the sponsor and fans whant.
Back then it was a racers venue and who had the biggest cohonas,,,now its what it is.
Smokey, u should jump in a boat and try it,,then u would see if it still is a kick or not.
To me ,,,i like it ,,because its better then running around out there with no rules and so on,,it still gives u a kick and some parts even on the short coarses are tricky and get dangerous,,,so a race is a race.
Follow the rules and have fun.
Just my 2 cents
