Worlds at Lake Alfred

[RLR]

A beutiful day for racing to kick off the first day of the Worlds was held. You might say a more perfect day for the Elderedge family was had a Lake Alfred. Wendy won the Worlds in 3 straight heat wins. She dominated the field as she came off the beach with great starts and was never headed.

Peter Crowley with a stuff incident in this class was the only time the safety personnel moved all day. For Peter a beutiful day was more he could have asked for as David Jones, Craig Dewald, and Peter's father worked the boat over, cleaned the engine and sent him out for heats 3 and 4. Boat damaged, but not Peter thank goodnes.

Wendy did not run the 4th heat as she already had the win. Amy Nydahl and Peter finished in the podium spots with Joe Waterson doing a masterful job as he got more used to the beach start as the day went along and finished in the 3rd and 4th spots in two of the heats.

Hats off to Will Augustine, our rookie who equated himself quite well in a field of veterans if that is what you can call these youngsters.

In 125H NAC, Amy Eldredge and Amy Nydahl put on a spirited run in their three heats of racing, with one Amy or the other finishing out front in a heat. The problem was that Nydahl had a fourth in one heat and Eldredge had a 1-2 finish. In the 3rd heat, Jimmy Shane ran off and hid, with Amy N finishing 2nd and Amy E. finishing 3rd to give Eldredge the win overall.

In 250R Tim Small and Buddy Tennel have exchange heat wins in the first two heats with JP Jedwabny in 3rd in both heats. Paulie Bosnich broke out front in the first heat and seemed on his way to a win, when it all went south in the bottom turn of lap number 5 and he went dead in the water. Sets up 2 more great heats.

In 350H, I witnessed a butt kicking like I have never seen before. Alex Cremona of Italy in the time trials was a full 1/2 second faster than Rene Behnche of Germany. That was just the beginning as Alex went on to win the first heat of 350 by a great margin over Rene and Tunde Bede of Austria. But even that was not the story, as Alex was about to put the 4th place boat, thats right the 4th place boat a lap down at the end of the 8th lap, and that 4th place driver was Chris Hellsten a great driver and speed merchant in his own right. That was the dominance of Alex. 3 more heats tomorrow.

In 125R, Paulie Bosnich was able to salve a little of the bitterness of the
250R issues. He finished out front of Brandon Thirlby and Dominick Defebo in the 125R category. David Jones was in the lead in the first heat in the David Tenny entry only to watch it go up in smoke opening the door to Paulie.

Paulie was driving a brand new Jerry David's built runabout that was just finished. Jerry from start to finish was 2 weeks to build that beutiful runabout. Thanks for the hard work Jerry!!!

1100H saw Doug Hall run off and hide in the first heat as he came off the beach with the lead and never looked back. Brandon Thirlby finished in the second spot and Sean McKean 3rd. Great to see Yvonne Koenig and Jim Kirts in that brand new capsule entry for him. Fun to see Jimmy Aderholt from Holland, son of Jimmy Aderholt from Alabama on the water in the 1100.

In 175 17 boat start led by Victor Vo of Hungry was just as much the name of his homeland to take home the first heat of 175. Rene Behnche and Tunde Bedi of Austria finished 3rd.

Thanks to Fred Mason our saftey boat driver for all his work this year and thank goodness, nothing too major for him to deal with.

Also thanks to Gary and Mary Levin for all the work that they have done to put this show on the water. Also Bill Hosler for his great help.

Ray

[pro350hydro]

Great Update!

Thanks Ray. Please keep the results coming

Mike Sattler

[DiGia54D]

Now thats an update. Thanks!!!! Congrats to both Amy's

What was the final boat counts on 250r and 350H?

[oldracer]

Ray, thanks for the run down, they are always the best. No wonder you are Mr. USTS.

[RLR]

Saturday at Worlds

Well a few classes were decided today as Buddy Tennell took home the 250R class with three wins today. Buddys Miss Laurie, came off the beach faster than anyone else and did a great job today. Tim won his first heat yesterday, but Buddy found the speed today. JP just getting better and better, having won at Hartford, finishes on the podium with a 3rd.

Buddy,
Tim Small
JP Jedwabny

1100H
Repeat Doug Hall 3X's, just absoultely dominating in 3 heat wins today with beutifully prepared Rex Hall GRM. Y-51 came off the beach better than anyone else and made a run at it. Brandon Thirlby is in 2nd and Jim Kirts 3rd going into tomorrows final heat.

Sean McKean entering the first turn after not getting started to come off the beach started picking them off one by one, but entering the first turn the boat hooked, got airbone and did a 360 sideways rollover, landing on the bottom with no damage to Sean and minor to the boat.

125R provided a spectacular flip as Paulie Bosnich, trying to track down David Jones driving the David Tenny entry got airborne on the front straightaway and blew over to the point that the boat did a one and half flip with the nose going in first and spilling Paulie out the front. A little dazed but okay. All of us owe Jerry David a great big hug as he stopped immediately to render assistance to Paulie. Then Jerry in the restart in the same place almost did it himself.

David Jones won both heats today after not finishing in the first heat yesterday and rebuilding it overnight and looks to have the speed. Brandon Thirlby ended up with a second in the third heat with a dimple in the piston, just about ready to go, but not quite. If Jones wins tomorrow of course it is a world championship.

In 500R it was a war of attrition as Tim Small and Mike Thirlby have traded heat wins with Pete Voss with 2 3rd place finishes. Hopefully we will see a few of the other boats come back for the 2nd and 3rd heats.

In 175 Zambellin of Italy ran off and hid in the 2nd heat with the VRP, as he was unable to finish yesterday while leading. Victor Vo of Hungry finished 3rd behind Beneche of Germany. With the 4 heat format of thowing one heat out, Zambelli still has a shot.

In 350H a flip cost Giuseppe Rossi a shot at the title as in testing the Rex Hall owned Revelution Hydro litterly exploded in big shot of water. He was okay, but as you see on another post there was nothing left of the boat.

Alex Cremona was able to repeat the win from yesterday and has 2 of the 3 legs needed to take it all. Beneche finished second with Bedi third and Chris Hellsten 4th. Chris worked over the boat this morning and it paid off with a much faster heat for him.

Tomorrow we finish it all.

Ray

[Al Peffley]

Alex does very well in O-350 again

Is Alex running a GRM or VRP motor at the F-350 World's?

Thanks for the updates , Ray. I wish I could have been there in person again this year. We really appreciate the daily news from the race site.

Al

[bill van steenwyk]

He is running the older GRM three cyl model most everyone else traded in on the new two cylinder models.

He has lapped at least 3/4 the field in each heat he has run so far.

He makes it look so easy, you don't even think he is that fast till he goes by somebody. Off the beach, in the corners, and on the straightaway, he is putting on a real show. Too bad for us, but he certainly deserves a lot of credit for the way this rig performs. No doubt it is WORLD CLASS!!

[aojesus]

Mr. Rodda, Sir,....As always your play by play on the air and in print is outstanding. Thank you!

Amy and I were in the food line with Jerry Davids last night at the banquet. We asked Jerry how he wanted his name on the side of Amy's AXR that he built. The boat is a Sorenson kit that Jerry put some of his magic touches on. Jerry immediately responded with what a great designer Darrell Sorenson is. There is no doubt Darrell is one of the best. Amy asked if "Custom built by Jerry Davids" would be OK to put on the boat next to Sorenson and Jerry's face got a little red and he said "cool" and put his head down for a moment. The conversation then turned to thanking Jerry for the way he exited his runabout (a perfect 10 dismount by the way) to assist Pauly. Jerry's face again got a bit red and he turned the conversation to how any racer would do it for anyone. Jerry builds some of the best boats and motors in stock, mod and Pro, holds many titles, is one of the best friends boat racing has, yet has the humblest of hearts.

Jerry Davids and Ray Rodda sure helped make the 2010 World Championships a little more special for many of us. Thank You Gentleman!

[Al Peffley]

Thanks for the dinner story and motor information

Great story on Jerry Davids. He is a good role model and a real asset to boat racing.

Thanks Bill, for the information on Alex's motor. Your observations seem consistent with what we have been seeing for comparative performance over here between the GRM 3-cylinder and 2-cylinder models. The intake and exhaust "performance-enhancing" technologies do not seem as mature on the 2-cylinder motors. I think the older GRM 3-cylinder models draw fuel a little more efficiently, and maybe the third expansion chamber gives the 3-cylinder motor an advantage by more even-temperature exhaust gases release (and obviously higher horsepower development during acceleration.)

Alex is also teamed with one of the greatest mechanics in the history of outboard racing, besides being a very skilled 350/250 driver and a tough competitor. I'll guess that the 3-cylinder is probably the same power head that he used to win the 2008 title. The difference in performance is also consistent with eye-witness reports I have heard from Europe last season and earlier this year. Have fun today participating in and watching the finals.

Al

[racingfan1]

Would the 350 motor that Mike Krier is domonant in 350R in the title series be the same type 3-cylinder GRM that Alex is running ?

[raceright]

starts

Not a copy cat,many of us like racing the way we do it. The clock start v/s
lemans. My sponsor at Hartford prefers clock starts and 4 laps as opossed to
beach starts and many laps. His reasons are as follows
1. with the proper anouncing (Ray) the start and first turn is incredable.
2. 4 laps the winner is easily identified
3. there is a more defined start and finish
4. there is time in between heats that allows for conssessions to sell product.
5. the fire marshal as well as the law enforcement can more easily schedule
moving pleasure boat traffic on the lake.
From a selfish personal point myself and Jimmy prefer USTS clock starts and 4 laps
Reasons
1. not into marathons
2. beach starts are harder on engines
3. love the three heat format
4. do not want to rebuild engines before every race, to run 8 laps 4 times thats what you are going to have to do,probably the reason the attretion is so heavy at Fla.

Just a little added info
We do miss our USTS friends and wish you all good luck in the finals today.

Pat Wright

PS for the right sponsor money we will race any way you want,but ya gonna have to have alot more than $30,000.00 in prize money and not just tow money

[RLR]

Sunday at the Worlds

Well we completed everything by about 3:30pm on Sunday afternoon and as they say, A great time was had by all.

Again my thanks to Gary and Mary Levin for all the hard work, we tried to give Bill Hosler credit as well, but he kept disappearing from me. Something about the cops would know where he was if he were talking to me!!!!LOL

Susan has posted all results on the thread that Howie had started and you can find a complete rundown over there. Thanks Howie and Sue!!

Well Sunday finished off all the classes and there were some notable things that occurred. Alex Cremona did a front flip from his boat after completing his 3 heat sweep. He started the third heat with a little hicup as he loaded up coming off the beach, but was able to catch most by the bottom turn and was out front at the starting line. He told me that they had richened it up a bit for the final heat they wanted to run.

Mark Stahl went over in the first turn in his brand new hydro, he was okay and started the 4th heat later. The red flag for Mark's incident pulled evryone back in and they restarted. No luck for the rest of the competitors as Alex came off the beach with a lead and never looked back. A really personalble young man and gave much credit to GRM and his crew. He is one heck of a driver and would love to see him at our U.S. Nationals.

0-175 went to Mauel Zambelli, as Rene Behnecke in trying to get around Manuel, missed a bouy and was assessed a one lap penalty under the UIM rules and that cost him the title. Manuel had a good run for the title, but Rene was a bit faster.

In the 500R, Mike Thirlby did what he needed to do, by winning 3/4 heats and took the title as Tim Small needing to beat Mike in the final heat gave it his all, but alas the moter quit and Tim watched the title go away.

The venera

[David Weaver]

Recognition

So many people to thank and recognize for their efforts. I would like to specifically thank Fred Mason and Carl Staron for manning the safety boats all weekend. They were on their "A" game and were clled into action several times. Also, Bill Hoctor never took a break during the racing working a patrol boat. Volunteers like these are instrumental to holding such successful events.

[pro350hydro]

Would the 350 motor that Mike Krier is domonant in 350R in the title series be the same type 3-cylinder GRM that Alex is running ?

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Mike Krier runs a 2-Cylinder 350cc VRP on his runabout.

[Doug Hall]

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Mike Krier runs a 2-Cylinder 350cc VRP on his runabout.

You are correct