May, 2000 Tastin' n Racin' UL-49 and UL-17
updates! Also, Doug announced earlier today that the UL-17 Ted's Red Apple Markets has repaired it's damage from Lake Havasu and is ready to race this weekend. Great news! Rick Bridgeman, driver of the UL-17, was excited about the team's prospects for the season following Lake Havasu. During the race weekend, the team resolved an engine problem that had plagued them when running as a UL. For more on both teams and quotes from the drivers, be sure to visit
MMS News. Father and son set to race in Issaquah! Doug McIntosh's news page is reporting that the damage suffered in Lake
Havasu has been repaired and the team is ready to race! Outstanding
news. For more on this story, be sure to visit Doug's news page at
http://www.seanet.com/~mms/news.htm.
Doug has been working with Tastin' n Racin' to promote the event and should
have a ton of race details throughout the upcoming weekend.
WORX 96.7 can be found on the web at www.worxradio.com.
Our thanks are offered to Jeff Ayler, Tim Torrance and the entire WORX
crew for their continued support of the Unlimited Lights! A Tastin' n
Racin' update...
KZOK 102.5 FM will be broadcasting LIVE from the pits both Saturday and Sunday. Speedvisionwill be filming both day's featuring the Unlimited Lights! It should an outstanding race weekend. Our thanks are offered to Doug McIntosh and McIntosh
Marketing Services for providing us with this early look at who they
expect to see at the event. ULRS Commissioner Particia M. Darling looks
back on the Mohave Unlimited Hydrofest... Lake Havasu was rather tough on our boats and we sustained hull damage to the UL 110, UL 23 and UL 15, while UL 17 blew a motor (valve). The very good news is that UL 110 was able to repair their boat in time to run. Also the UL 49 and Steve Hook received great assistance from other camps to manage a better showing with each heat. Jerry Hopp and the UL 15 also had some problems with their truck, but were able to begin racking up National High Points. The Bridgemans report that they were able to diagnose an old problem during Lake Havasu and are ready to run at Tastin' n Racin' . We saw some fine competition, and Phil Bononcini and team won their first ever race. Dick and Shirley Sanders are anxiously awaiting their Ron Jones, Sr. delivery and Chip Reiter is hoping to join us at San Diego. So----all in all, it was a weekend. Our teams stayed at the River Palms Casino and really enjoyed the nice rooms, inexpensive and very good food and had fun in the casino as well. Yes, it was hot, but some forgot that as the Playboy gals passed by in the Pits. They are a new sponsor for the UHRA and welcomed by all. I salute all the teams who made the effort to come to Lake Havasu, and
I look to greeting even more at Tastin' N Racin' next weekend." More Sponsor's For
Tastin' n Racin' Roanoke Inn-Mercer Island will be the sponsor of the Antique Boat and Vintage "fly-by" exhibition. They will be joined by Art Brass Plating Co. of Seattle who will be the sponsor of the "Rod and Custom Show". Other sponsors contributing to the event are; Pepsi-Cola, Hales Ales, Days Inn Hotels, E-Z Dock, Sparklett's, Issaquah Grange, Chiropractic Health Information Program, O`Brien Law Firm, Issaquah Bank, Seattle Boat, and New Century Catering. H.I.D.R.O.`s Inc. and the Unlimited Lights Racing Series would like
to give a big THANK YOU to KZOK 101.5 and Speedvision for their assistance
in making this event possible! TWO DAYS OF CONTINUOUS THUNDER PREDICTED…… And it keeps getting louder!!!!
H.I.D.R.O.S Inc. is thrilled to announce the partnership of KZOK — 102.5 The Classic Rock Station and Tastin' n Racin'. KZOK is excited about being the race presenter and brings to the table thousands of dollars worth of air time and exposure for the largest radio audience in the 20 - 50 age bracket in the Seattle market. It is going to be hard to find people in the Seattle/Eastside area that will have not heard the thunder of Tastin' n Racin' — even before race day!!! Get ready for thousands of spectators, hundreds of autographs to sign and the best racing time to be had. The KZOK 102.5 Cup, will showcase the Unlimited Lights Racing Series (www.ulrs.org) along with other classes of Inboard Boat Racing which include hydroplanes, runabouts and tunnel boats. On the shore, there will be live music, lots of Great Food to tantalize your taste buds, kids activities, arts and crafts, New Boats to buy, the Wenatchee Youth Circus with their high wire and trapeze acts. Not only will there be contemporary boats, but displays of Vintage Race Boats from the Antique & Classic Boat Society and Hydroplane Museum. Two Beer Gardens featuring Hale's Ales. Finally, there is the crowd pleasing, Custom Car & Rod show set for Sunday! Last year, according to Washington State Parks, 31,000 people came to the shores of Lake Sammamish to experience the 3rd Tastin' n Racin' and with KZOK on board, you can bet there will be thousands more!!
Visit the Tastin' n Racin'
website at www.tastinracin.com! UL-21 secures a new sponsor SolutionsIQ is a Bellevue, WA based supplier of data access and professional technical staffing and consulting service. SolutionsIQ is one of the Eastside's leading Software Developers. Finishing touches are being made this week to the UL-21 with the new
engine and systems being installed. The boat has been painted and
is a beauty. They will be a welcome addition to the UL fleet. Speedvision
to film Tastin' n Racin'!!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPEEDVISION TO FILM TASTIN` n RACIN` !!
Date-line Issaquah
WA: The KZOK 102.5 Roy’s Roostertail Regatta, not only will showcase the Unlimited Lights Racing Series for the first time, but also 12 other classes of APBA Inboard Boat Racing which include hydroplanes, runabouts and tunnel boats. On the shore, there will be live music, lots of great food to tantalize your taste buds, kids activities, arts and crafts, new boats to buy, the Wenatchee Youth Circus with their high wire and trapeze acts. Not only will there be contemporary boats, but displays of Vintage Race Boats from the Antique & Classic Boat Society and Hydroplane Museum. Two Beer Gardens featuring Hale's Ales. Finally, there is the crowd pleasing, Custom Car & Rod show set for Sunday! Last year, according to Washington State Parks, 31,000 people came to the shores of Lake Sammamish to experience the Tastin' n Racin' and with KZOK & The SpeedVision Network on board, you can bet there will be thousands more!! LET`S GO BOAT RACING !!
The Unlimited Lights welcome
KZOK
– 102.5 FM! Tastin' n Racin' is shaping up to be an incredible show, on and off
the water! You can learn more about the upcoming event at the official
race website, www.tastinracin.com.
For even more information visit Doug
McIntosh's Tastin' n Racin' page. To learn more about KZOK -
102.5 FM, just visit www.kzok.com. From one race coverage to the next... A new radio controlled Unlimited Light makes
the cover of RC Boat Modeler! You can learn more about all of Andy's RC models at RC-Hydros.com! UL-23 Miss River Palms! "We are running as the 'Miss River Palms' at Havasu and wish to thank Nancy Novak and all the great people there for their help. We hope they all have a great time at the race and we're proud and honored to represent them." Click here for a full
text and photo update on the team as they hit the road for this weekend's
race! A new recruiting committee forms... UL-33 announces a new sponsorship! Speaking with Denny Jackson, we've learned that the former UL-33 was recently sold and the hull the team plans to race is the former Kat-N-Nan hull. The team is preparing to add a new canopy and air system so the hull will comply with current UL specifications. The team hopes to test before driver Denny Jackson leaves for Europe. Denny works as a teacher in Vevay, Indiana, Switzerland County High School and takes a group of kids on a European tour annually. Commenting on his recent chance to return to racing, Denny told us, "I didn't realize how much I missed it." Denny also credited UHRA historian Fred Farley with uniting the team with their new sponsor. Further plans beyond Madison are uncertain at this time, but we wish
the team well as they prepare to get out on the water again this year. Transcripts from the recent WORX show are
now available on-line! Western Divisionals coverage begins! You might ask how are the Unlimited Lights involved in the action? An Invitational Grand Prix race will include National Mods, Grand National, Grand Prix and Unlimited Lights to be run in conjunction with the other divisions. One heat will be run on Saturday and one heat Sunday! For additional information on the race and a bit of background on this
weekend's action, be sure to visit Doug McIntosh's Western
Divisionals Site The Unlimited Hydroplane Racing Association
unveils Hydrofan! Just click here
for all the details on this new offer! UL-23 Team Pegasus announces additional
races! Over on the UL-23 Team Pegasus site, they've
updated their 2000 schedule reflecting the new events and added a tentative
full schedule for the GNH series! Rumor has it that owner Bob Larimore
may actually drive in a few of the GNH races. From the former Alamo camp... There are 3 (three) 509 c.i. GM motors for sale. Two are rebuilt and one was pickled after San Diego. The price? $20,000 each or all three for $50,000! If you need additional information, please contact Duff Taylor.
Need Duff's phone number? Just drop
us an e-mail and we'll get it to you. Issaquah gets behind the upcoming event... Since this is the first time that the Lights will race on the Issaquah
course, it's a fresh chance to set course records. The city is showing
their enthusiasm by setting up a reader board that will record Unlimited
Light records set on the Tastin' N Racin' course. This reader board
will remain up all year long! A new issue of the Beacon! For those of you unfamiliar with the Beacon, it's the insider's newsletter
of the Unlimited Lights Racing Series. The Beacon is published quarterly.
The summer issue of the Beacon will be available in late July, 2000.
The deadline for submissions for that issue is July 1, 2000. We have an updated boat count for Lake
Havasu!
Be sure to pick up a copy of the May, 2000 issue of Powerboat Magazine! There's a two page photo of Bob Larimore's UL-23 Pegasus that is simply amazing. The boat is completely up out of the water on a hop with a wall of spray filling the background. It's an amazing shot. The boat is perfectly flat above the water. The photo was taken by F. Pierce Williams in the "Roostertail Turn" at Detroit during the 1999 race. (Page 16-17 under the section title - "Hot Shot") Also, starting on page 92 there's a five page Unlimited Preview for
the 2000 season. Toward the end of the Preview, the Unlimited Lights
have two paragraphs mentioning the series and briefly reflecting on the
the team titles. Both Bo Schide (UL-16
Alamo) and Charley Wiggins (UL-10 Earl's Perforamce
Products) get a congratulatory nod. The series received good press in last month's April issue of the APBA Propeller Magazine. Stories on the the upcoming Lake Sammamish race, Paul Droullard's (UL-9) maiden season dedication to Unlimited Hydroplane pioneer Ted Jones and the Haas (UL-110) purchase of the Alamo can be found in the issue. Be sure to visit the APBA website where you will find an online version of portions of Propeller Magazine. Looking for a good read? Check out Jim Russell's piece titled
"Sponsorship:
How to Find, Get and Keep It" from the April issue. Charley Wiggins set to return to the airwaves of WORX Charley Wiggins, driver of the UL-10 Earl's Performance
Products, will return to the airwaves of WORX
96.7 FM for a second interview. This time Tim Torrance and Jeff
Ayler will interview Charley as the new pilot of the U-6
Miss Madison. The interview is set to take place at 7:00 PM EST
the evening of May 9th. This interview will be broadcast over the
internet right along with the traditional Madison area radio broadcast! Morgan Foods sponsors the Lights at Madison!
To learn more about this year's 50th Anniversary Madison Regatta
and the Belterra Resort & Casino Indiana Governor’s Cup visit the regatta's
homepage at www.madisonregatta.com. New issue of the APBA Inboard Newsletter The APBA website has unveiled the Spring issue of their Inboard Newsletter. The new issue (Vol. 11, No. 1) contains an article on the series which serves as a good Spring Unlimited Light report. Within this same issue you can also find all the latest information on the 1.5 Litre, 2.5 Litre, 5 Litre, Pro Stock, Crackerbox, JSS, GNH, Super Stock and National Mod classes. Click here for updates from April, 2000.
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