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Ratickle
09-13-2013, 10:41 PM
Well, made it out here. Good and bad news.

Good, Steve David was the number one qualifier today.

Bad, Steve David announced yesterday this would be his last race. Full-blown retirement from Unlimited Hydro Racing. I tried to talk him into offshore racing again, but he says his wife says never again. We'll have to work on her I guess.....

Well, I'll try to keep you informed..


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Ratickle
09-13-2013, 10:48 PM
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09-13-2013, 10:50 PM
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Ratickle
09-13-2013, 10:56 PM
Talked with Mark Evans. They had a tough one, blew the gearbox to smithereens and the boat started to sink. Their spare is back up north, so they are done for the weekend. Tough break.


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Ratickle
09-14-2013, 01:28 AM
SAN DIEGO - The 49th annual San Diego Bayfair unlimited hydroplane races are scheduled to get underway Friday on Mission Bay.

Friday is reserved for the teams to prepare and to make training and qualifying runs. The event is set to culminate Sunday in an expected duel between Steve David and Jimmy Shane for the national points championship of this racing season. David is looking for his seventh title in eight years.

The best finisher between the two this weekend will be the season winner. The 2 1/2-mile finale is set for Sunday afternoon.

"We are very fortunate to have the finest hydroplane racing in the world today back in San Diego," said Jeff Thomas, Bayfair chairman. "Our loyal fans deserve the best powerboat racing we can draw, and we've done that."

The races are based on Vacation Island, but viewing is also available at Ski Beach, Crown Point Shores and Fiesta Island. The event will also include musical entertainment at East Vacation Island, and a motocross exhibition.

For more information about this weekend's events, visit San Diego Bayfair (http://www.sandiegobayfair.org/).

Ratickle
09-14-2013, 11:02 AM
Saturday, September 14, 2013
San Diego Bayfair Events Schedule


7:30-8:00 am Heat H1 & Final A Stock Hydro, C Stock Hydro (Ski Beach)
8:00-8:30 am SST-45 Testing (Ski Beach)
8:30-9:30 am Super Stock/Pro Stock (Ski Beach)
9:30-10:00 am Grand Prix West Testing 3 (Bill Muncey Course)
10-11:00 am H1 Unlimited Testing (Bill Muncey Course)
11-11:20 am Grand Prix West Heat A (Bill Muncey Course)
11:20-11:40 am Grand Prix West Heat B (Bill Muncey Course)
11:40-12:10 pm SST-45 Qualifier 1 (Ski Beach)
12:10-1:00 pm A & C Stock Hydro, Super/Pro Stock Heat 1 (Ski Beach)
1:00-1:40 pm H1 Unlimited Testing (Bill Muncey Course)
2:30-3:10 pm SST-45 Qualifier 1 (Ski Beach)
3:50-4:10 pm Grand Prix West Final (Bill Muncey Course)
4:10-4:40 pm H1 Unlimited Heat 1A presented by Chobani (Bill Muncey Course)
4:40-5:00 pm H1 Unlimited Heat 1B presented by Chobani (Bill Muncey Course)

phragle
09-14-2013, 06:16 PM
Go to Robertos and get a carne asada burrito or carne asada fries. There is one by across the street from the rollercoaster in mission beach. Where are you staying??

Ratickle
09-14-2013, 07:31 PM
Staying at Paradise Point resort. Nice place, it's the host for bay fair. Have a really nice bungalow right on the bay.

Ratickle
09-14-2013, 07:32 PM
Steve just won his heat. He's still 63 points ahead but Jimmy Shane may faulter in his heat.

Ratickle
09-14-2013, 10:04 PM
Well, Jimmy did not falter. Got lane one and led start to finish. Still only 63 points separation between Steve and Jimmy.

Ratickle
09-14-2013, 10:09 PM
Now here's a sequence during practice that had to make Tom's arse pucker a bit......


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Ratickle
09-14-2013, 10:12 PM
He's giving a special thanks to the front wing......

Ratickle
09-15-2013, 08:54 PM
Wow, what a day.

Jimmy and Steve were matched up in the first heat. Heck of a job by both to try for the inside, Steve got it barely. He won the heat putting him ahead in the championship by 163 points. A bit of breathing room. Then they both won their respective heats in round 3. So, into the final, cat and mouse for the inside lane, Steve got it again. Led start to finish with Jimmy on his hip about a roostertail back. Then they said Steve was over on the start moving him to last place. Steve said jimmy was a half boat-length ahead of him on the start, but that gave the Bayfair win to Jimmy and the overall points season championship to Jimmy.

Until the teams review the tapes I'm pretty sure it's not over, we'll see how it progresses. Meanwhile, I'll get some more pics up. Some really good racing.

Ratickle
09-15-2013, 10:18 PM
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09-16-2013, 12:58 PM
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Ratickle
09-16-2013, 12:59 PM
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Ratickle
09-17-2013, 08:04 AM
SAN DIEGO - The 49th annual San Diego Bayfair came to an end in dramatic fashion on Sunday.

The entire unlimited hydroplane season came down to one race. Longtime champion Steve David – who is retiring Sunday – took the lead his final race of a 45-year run. He started three-tenths of a second early. While he led the entire race, it was the 27-year-old up-and-comer, Jimmy Shane, who took the title.

David seemed to handle the defeat graciously. He said he was excited because those few minutes were for all the marbles.

"It's much more like an airplane than it is a boat nowadays," said Shane. "You're actually flying the boat on a cushion of air six to 12 inches off the water.

That is because it is the same type of turbo engine used to power the military's heavy-lift Chinook helicopter.

Shane is new to his cockpit. It is only his second year in the circuit. He skyrocketed to a lead spot – coming in second last year – right behind David.

"There's nothing on land that compares to it, and I would not recommend this, but if you got in your dryer at high speed, it'd be just like that," David told 10News.

David started racing at age 15. He has landed a lot of titles, but he has also broken a lot of bones.

"Knee, ribs, toe, neck, lower back, teeth," he said. "

San Diego Bayfair officials say the 2.5-mile oval course is the fastest in the world. It is part of the draw for nearly 100,000 people expected to turn out over the course of the three-day event.

The event started in 1964, a few years before David jumped on board.

"It's funny. I've known Jimmy when he was in his mommy's belly. His mom and dad were good friends of mine. Jimmy is a good friend of mine, and I can't imagine a finer gentleman to really take over when I'm out of here," said David.

Shane did not seem to share David's humble nature, and he was not shy about trying to steal the thunder from his family friend.

"I would love nothing more than to kind of swoop down and steal a little bit of his swan song that he's got going on leaving this sport," he said.

San Diego Bayfair is a nonprofit event put on by volunteers. Money made funds the next event, and anything above and beyond goes back into the bay. That means a bigger turnout could be a better Mission Bay.

10News - 49th annual San Diego Bayfair ends - 10News.com - News (http://www.10news.com/web/kgtv/news/49th-annual-san-diego-bayfair-ends-09152013)

Ratickle
09-17-2013, 11:38 PM
Steve David jumped the gun. By only a 30th of a second, too.

Yet that’s all it took to turn the Oh Boy! Oberto driver’s weekend into an Oh No! finish to his celebrated career.

Closing in on a perfect meet at San Diego Bayfair, David’s running start in the H1 Unlimited final crossed the start line too soon, costing him both a penalty lap in the final race and the national points championship despite having the fastest boat in the water at Mission Bay all weekend.

Instead, the 59-year-old reigning national champ settled for fourth place when second would have been good enough to hold off winner Jimmy Shane, who edged David by 68 points to win the first national titles for both himself and the Graham Trucking hydroplane.

“It’s just fitting,” David said after reviewing still frames of his start. “I’ve got to laugh about it because it’s the difference of eh-eh on the pedal. A 30th of a second if you think about it. … When it’s my error and not a boat problem I can live with that. We had the fastest boat here.”

Right from the start, too.

David posted the top qualifying run Friday, won every heat leading up to the final and then led Shane by several boat lengths when race officials sent word over the airwaves that their review of the start revealed that about three feet of the Oh Boy! Oberto boat was over the line at the start of the race.

The announcement sent an uproar through the crowd on the shores and turned both the race and the national standings race upside down.

Instead of cruising toward his seventh national driver title and fifth boat title for Oh Boy! Oberto, David was docked a lap that he completed as Shane floated into the docks with his third straight win to close the season.

The second-year driver pumped his fist while standing on his hull as his team greeted him with cheers. The H1 Unlimited series will need a new face to rally behind as David hangs up his helmet. Shane, 27, might very well be it after spoiling the icon’s retirement party this weekend.

Shane wasn’t sorry about it in the least, either, after balking at David’s pre-race leapfrog toward the inside lane sent the Graham Trucking hull into the air as he crossed through the wake.

“I did (spoil his weekend) — and at the same time he pulled a move on us coming down the front and pretty much almost took us out before the race,” Shane said. “The boat was almost standing up on end when I went through his rooster tail. … He only had three boat lengths and he still came over. He needs five lengths to do that. I was lucky to bring it back down.”

David, however, said he had more than enough room to win the pre-race jockeying for the shortest route around the 2½-mile Bill Muncey Memorial Course.

“We knew we were good,” David said. “I’ve got spotters all over the race course.”

The Oh Boy! Oberto boat edged Shane in qualifying — 161.571 mph to 160.895 — and his 174.188-second finish during a three-lap heat to start the day was more than 3 seconds faster than Graham Trucking’s showing.

That didn’t matter much in the final when Shane — trailing by several boat lengths — learned during the fourth lap that he was leading a race that he won in 308.734, well ahead of second-place Tommy Thompson (339.219).

SPLIT SECOND COSTLY AT BAYFAIR | UTSanDiego.com (http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/sep/16/tp-split-second-costly-at-bayfair/)

phragle
09-18-2013, 10:44 AM
But did you get a burrito??

Ratickle
09-19-2013, 08:37 AM
Not this trip. Terri is still not feeling very good at all. She made less than half the races, and then we only spent a half day at the zoo. The two restaurants at Paradise Point were pretty good though.

Ratickle
09-20-2013, 09:52 AM
Some Sunday shots. First Heat of the day.


Steve getting just a bit loose in position jockeying.
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phragle
09-20-2013, 02:36 PM
Not this trip. Terri is still not feeling very good at all. She made less than half the races, and then we only spent a half day at the zoo. The two restaurants at Paradise Point were pretty good though.

My family came out to Cali to watch me do a 24 hour race years ago.... the next day they wanted to go to the zoo.... Imagine what it was like doing that zoo after a 24 hour atv endurance run in the desert.. My sister was literally pushing me up the hills...

Ratickle
09-21-2013, 09:26 AM
Laughing my azz off. I'm surprised you could even stand up to be pushed. After a 400 miler in the desert on my old Husky I would hope I wouldn't crash cause I knew I wouldn't be able to pick the bike back up.....

Ratickle
09-22-2013, 09:05 AM
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09-22-2013, 08:05 PM
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Serious News
09-23-2013, 10:07 PM
Some comments from Steve before the races in San Diego.

“It’s time,” David said of his decision to retire. “This is the right time to go. I’ve told myself for the past five or six years to go when I saw it was time.

“To me, it’s fitting that the run is ending here on the course named for Muncey. I always respected the man and what he did for our sport.”

Since the death of Muncey and the retirement of Chip Hanauer, David has been the sport’s leading ambassador. The now retired Dave Villwock might have won more races (a record 67) and titles than David, but the reigning champion won more friends.

The retirements of David and Villwock in less than a year will leave a huge void in a struggling sport that has been losing ground to other forms of motorsports for the past five decades.

“I don’t know what the future holds for Unlimited Hydroplanes,” said David earlier this week. “The fans that see us, love us. Thirty-foot boats traveling at 200 miles an hour is quite a spectacle. But we’re no longer on television and we lack the backing we once had.

San Diego last hydro stop for Steve David | UTSanDiego.com Mobile (http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2013/sep/13/motorsports-unlimited-hydroplanes-david-retiring/)

Serious News
09-29-2013, 08:30 AM
Penalty by David gives Shane win, H1 championship
Graham Trucking's Shane erases 163-point deficit to win title by 68 over Oberto/Miss Madison's David in his final race before retirement

David Campbell
Courier Sportswriter

Steve David's hopes for a storybook career ending were ruined by penalty and Jimmy Shane completed a remarkable comeback to win on Mission Bay and claim the 2013 H1 Unlimited National High Points championship Sunday in San Diego.

David, who announced his retirement on Thursday, was attempting to go out on top, with not only a victory in San Diego but his seventh driver's title and fifth team championship for Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison Racing.

But those hopes were dashed when he crossed the starting line too early in the final. Despite leading the championship heat all five laps, David was forced to settle for fourth place.

Shane, who trailed David by 663 points just two races ago, took the checkered flag aboard the Graham Trucking and also claimed his first driver's title and the second for owner Ted Porter. Shane's 68-point margin over David was the fourth-closest in history.

"This has just been an incredible experience driving for this team. I always know I can drive the boat as hard as I need to because they are going to have everything working right," Shane said. "(I have) the best owner and sponsor a driver could have. Get used to seeing me (in San Diego). This is the best place in the world for a boat race and I will be coming back every year for a long time."

Shane's chances appeared to be dwindling after he lost a Heat 2A dual with David that left him 163 points back. Both David and Shane won their other two preliminary heats.

Heading into the final heat, David had the luxury of conceding the race win to Shane and still taking the High Points title but decided instead to go for everything.

Shane camped in lane one before the start but David flew around the field from the outside to steal the inside lane, appearing to cut off Shane in the process and forcing Shane to drive through the Oberto's roostertail and momentarily take flight before coming back down.

While no call was issued on that move, David's early start did not escape penalty. According to a still grab of the race video released by H1 Unlimited, the Oh Boy! Oberto was half a boat over the start line while Shane's Graham Trucking was right on the line.

"We were a 30th of a second over. That's three feet," David said. "I was obviously going for it all, Jimmy and I both were, and it cost us the national championship. We were such a faster boat in the water than everybody. All day long, (the crew) had the boat set up perfectly. We won the heats convincingly and nailed every start down there (at the one minute buoy) which had been our nemesis."

The penalty moved David to the back of the field but thanks to Mike Webster's ride going dead in the water and a flagrant fuel violation on Kip Brown, David moved up to fourth.

But with Shane awarded the race win, David needed to finish no lower than second in order to clinch the season title. Fourth was just too far away.

Shane's 68-point margin in the fourth-closest in Unlimited hydroplane history. Don Wilson won by a mere six points aboard the Miss U.S. I in 1958. Jim Kropfeld won by 31 points in 1986 aboard the Miss Budweiser and Chip Hanauer won by 46 points in 1994, also while driving the Bud.

Shane is the first driver not named Steve David or Dave Villwock to win the driver's championship since 1997. Mark Tate earned the title that season in the Close Call. It was also Shane's sixth victory in the past 11 races.

A field of nine boats made the trek to San Diego for the season finale but only six were still in working condition by the time the final was run.

Mark Evans' FEDCO entry broke a propeller during qualifying on Friday and the Leland Unlimited of driver Dave Warren caught fire during a trailer engine test Saturday evening and was forced to withdraw.

The Miss Beacon Plumbing suffered damage to the boat's transom during a preliminary heat and also withdrew.

With the season now finished, all eyes turn toward the search for David's successor with the Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison team. The field of applicants could range from current standouts Shane and Kelly to current Oberto crew member Scott Liddycoat and former Gold Cup champion Jean Theoret.

David is confident that whomever is named as successor, he or she will be set up to win.

"This boat is leaving here the fastest on the circuit and whoever gets that seat will have a lot of wins ahead of them," David said. "I've just been so proud to have had it for 13 years."