You want to be competitve? figure an easy $12 grand for your boat, pump, engine. Add another grand for gear. Hope like hell you can make your motor last all season without breaking and figure on a grand a race in fuel, travel, supplies, entry fees etc.
There you go, I'm sure others will chime in.
never kept track, get a boat then a motor and so on. its all about baby steps unless you got deeeeeeepwhere do i get info on rules and all that good stuff and what's the best hull length and can I wright this off at tax time
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where do i get info on rules and all that good stuff and what's the best hull length and can I wright this off at tax timerules can be found here
where do i get info on rules and all that good stuff and what's the best hull length and can I wright this off at tax time
Challenger-- don't get scared out of it, just put a fin and a kill switch on your ski boat and run nastalgia jet , you can't run over 80 mph, shouldn't cost to much to step it up to run 80 mph, run for s season, you will love it. and it will bite you, you'll build a comp. jet the next year, if you need pointers call me, JimEXactly . . . 80 mph on water is haulin' ass and expensive. No brakes = shit happens fast
Challenger-- don't get scared out of it, just put a fin and a kill switch on your ski boat and run nastalgia jet , you can't run over 80 mph, shouldn't cost to much to step it up to run 80 mph, run for s season, you will love it. and it will bite you, you'll build a comp. jet the next year, if you need pointers call me, JimI agree with Jim here. This is by far the cheapest class to run. I recommend coming out with whatever boat you have (at first,as long as its a legal boat by APBA standards). Get on the water and see if this business is for you . I would recommend borrowing a helmet and jacket for the first time (and other pertinent safety eq.). Then, if you get bit by the racin' bug, step up to a race hull , engine and the rest of the necessary evils.
Running N/J would be great, if there were enough people to run the class. That's the suck part, hell I could, and probably would run my boat in N/J if there were enough NJ boats to run with. Hmmmmmmmmmskip im trying to get everything together... i just got my backup motor tonight i think it might be ok its only 30 over
I agree with Jim here. This is by far the cheapest class to run. I recommend coming out with whatever boat you have (at first,as long as its a legal boat by APBA standards). Get on the water and see if this business is for you . I would recommend borrowing a helmet and jacket for the first time (and other pertinent safety eq.). Then, if you get bit by the racin' bug, step up to a race hull , engine and the rest of the necessary evils.fock i think im bit by the racin' bug are ready i go to bed thinking about it and shtt i think about it all day
And to answer your Question of how much an average weekend of racing costs...It's about 1k. This is what I personally average. This is without breakage or any other mishaps. Hope this helps.
Running N/J would be great, if there were enough people to run the class. That's the suck part, hell I could, and probably would run my boat in N/J if there were enough NJ boats to run with. Hmmmmmmmmm
SKIP Your a promotor type of guy BRING IT BACK Personally i always loved N/J Racing. It was a lot of fun and it was a whole lot cheaper to race. The class needs some new blood and im sure that the promoters would put it on the sanctions. Bring out the ski boats and have some fun.now your talkin :thumbup: hell i mite even drag my liberty out :-\
SKIP Your a promotor type of guy BRING IT BACK Personally i always loved N/J Racing. It was a lot of fun and it was a whole lot cheaper to race. The class needs some new blood and im sure that the promoters would put it on the sanctions. Bring out the ski boats and have some fun.
sell it, drive it, promote it, whore it, whatever.
call ross, he will put you in contact with brad stillman who i believe still has a hand in the nostalgia classes.
EXactly . . . 80 mph on water is haulin' ass and expensive. No brakes = shit happens fast
Learn the ropes and have a FUN time in N/J Walk before you run is always good advice.
It's not that hard to go 80 with the right setup
I'm looking at things from a financial standpoint, the NJ thing seems doable, even Momma agrees.
I would love to promote a race but if you recall when I brought this up last year, I got nothing but turmoil from all sides. I wanted to do strictly INBOARD boats, not just a race but an entire weekend, akin to the NHRA Hot Rod Reunion, old racers and their boats sharing beers and swapping lies, swap meet, vendors, just a good time. I found the venue, I needed a sanctioning body on board to make insurance even close to affordable, as soon as I told people that it would not include the whackers, and that I didn't really want it to be a points race, more of a destination race, everyone quickly disappeared. No promoting for me.
I'll email Ross, and keep y'all posted.
Glenn-
It's simple, if it's MY race, that I'm doing all the promoting, etc for. Then I get to pick who races, and I hate whackers! If we could get some bigger whacker boats to come and run, MAYBE but it's been my experience that the only whackers that show up are those God awful kid boats and the even worse Eagle Scout specials. No whackers at my race, hence the INBOARD only thing.
skip....looks like we got a fire lit under your ass now ;D