The Outboard Racing Revival Series concept

[US101R]

Purpose:
- To include all boats and engines ever raced
- Celebrate new boats and restorations
- Create a national 1 lap of one mile qualifying standard

Course: - 1 mile surveyed and certified with equal corners

Racing:
- Boats race in speed groups based on qualifying lap time
- No engine classes
- No boat weight limits
- 1 event per each region per year
- Fastest three race groups race at 1pm and at the end of day

Qualifying:

- Morning qualifying, one lap timed.
- Results posted on site and online

- This format achieves racing parity and provides an
opportunity for personal best laps per boat and driver

- No boat and motor combination is obsolete

Awards:

- New boats
- New racers
- Restored boats
- Farthest distance traveled by racer to attend race

Notes: The qualifying speeds posted online should have a link to a photo
of the boat and motor used with a short description. The idea of speed groups is easy and fair and allows maximum participation. Morning qualifying
will give everyone a chance to have clean water and the course to yourself.

And they all raced happily ever after.

T.Y.K.

[Smitty]

Timing in in the morning and running in qualifying-speed groups means there's no incentive to try to build or tune your engine to the maximum. Somebody with a big, poorly-tuned engine, running slow with badly set up on a heavy, junky boat, gets to run on an even basis with a guy who is getting the most out of his smaller outfit. This is fake racing; this is just running around the lake in a motley pack, utterly uninteresting. Motorsports have been and ought to continue to be the sports for hands-on gear-heads, for blue-collar mechanical and technical guys, for engineering types, and so forth. Class racing is what lets them measure their skills against each other.

I'm against your idea, but it's not personal and I sure don't want to put down anybody who is trying to come up with new ideas, T.Y.K.. And maybe lots of guys will agree with you.

[Art K]

Sandbaggers heaven!
Art K

[CSR4C]

A wild cat group in Oregon (Inter-City Racing) ran this type of racing from the '50s until it folded in the '90s. I ran with them a few times in the '70s.
Here is how they worked it & took care of the “sand baggers” as well:
In the morning all boats would time in & there had to be several boat on the course while you timed in. After everyone timed in the boats were assigned to classes, A being the slowest. It would be a pursuit start with numbers placed on the starting clock for each speed group. All races were 5 laps. For example boat A times in at 58 seconds & boat B times in at 57 seconds. Boat a would start five seconds before boat B.
Here is how they would take care of “sand Baggers”. If boat A finished the race in over 1 second faster than his time in time(example boat A X 5= 289 second or less)) it would be disqualified. Also a boat could timed for an individual lap during the race and it ran it over 1 second less the its time in time, it is disqualified.
If all the boats in a class were similar to size and weight it worked fairly well. I ran an A Stock Runabout in the races and can remember trying to get around someone in a cabover hydro with a standard Mk 55 on it. During the time trials I just took it a little easy in the turns and never over ran my time.

[Rocket]

The Outboard Racing Revival Series concept

Hey I remember those days, that's where I started. I liked the way it was organized. Ton of fun and no inspections or scales. Also liked the 4 cylinder flying start and the 2 cylinder flying start. Always at the end of the regular program.