Race World Offshore Securing New Presenting Sponsor For Key West With Cigarette Out

[Speed on the Water]

The five-year presenting-sponsorship deal between Cigarette Racing team and event producer Race World Offshore for Key West is off, https://www.speedonthewater.com/race...cigarette-out/

[john acosta]

Talking to larry reminds me of listening to Biden ramble on . Sorry ,

[Bobcat]

C'mon Man!

[Ratickle]

No one is as bad as Biden.

Spent some time talking to Larry about safety and rules at the APBA meeting in Orlando. He's ambitious! That's good!

[john acosta]

problem is he is using the same old playbook.
i know it well.

I,d like to see the younger guys take a stab at runnin their show

[Ratickle]

I'd like to see some young guys, or girls, replace Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, Feinstein, etc.

Even the ones off the short bus couldn't do as bad as that group.....

[john acosta]

agreed .

although i was reffering to replacing the old gaurd with youth and new ideas in the offshore racing world.

[phragle]

So can we strap AOC to a turn bouy???

[Ratickle]

Starting to wonder about Cigarette though. First they back out of the Doug Wright deal. Then they back out of the Ley West World's sponsorship. Getting a bit confusing.....

[john acosta]

AOC as a turn bouy would be great if youre billy mauf,...(gauranteed to get hit ! )

cigarette has new blood .so new ideas come with it.

when do we get our first 1,000 hp electric powered boat ?
can you imajine the loss in a flipover situation?

[Bobcat]

Fishkill ?

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Starting to wonder about Cigarette though. First they back out of the Doug Wright deal. Then they back out of the Ley West World's sponsorship. Getting a bit confusing.....

Seems he has a different plan. Races of his own.
https://luminsearaces.com/

[john acosta]

so did it happen ?

[Ratickle]

Yep, it happened. I have no feedback yet.

Jeff, "Freezeframe" was there. Here is a link to his website with some of the pictures he took.


http://www.freezeframevideo.net/phot...344&action=new

I don't know if you've used Jeff's site before. But, if you click on "Next Photo", it goes to the next full page of pictures.

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

It would have been better for the sport to support a functioning group of events. Oh well, same as it ever was.

[john acosta]

you got it jim.

i gues im really out of it now.i heard nothing of this event .

looked a little shy on participants ,but it was something.

im just spoiled i guess..i remmember when 60 boats was a very poor turnout.

one year we had 142 boats in keywest ..dina couldnt find enough spots .

wonder if it will ever catch on again/?

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Seems to me the biggest events were APBA. There was one principal org. Then Carbonell split it[ with help form some celebrities} . Then years later it split again{ racers split it, another story in itself}
Next thing you know there are 4 orgs all fighting for the racers.

There was some continuity forming in recent years. Now another new guy comes in to stir the pot. A real shame IMO.

[phragle]

Nope.... offshore boats...shut down by **cough** small crat advisory.....

[john acosta]

yes i,ll probably get censored for thi,, but my favorite years were apba llc..
when sckryzpec and gm joined in for a few years.

the racers got serious the sponsors were bigger and more of them.

really good classes ,( too many tho )

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

I was blessed to run Factory 2 in the big years APBA and SBI, Ran SVL and Super V in OSS best years. Also witnessed APBA in 85-89 in Key West. Big true international events. Way cool!

The good ol Days