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2003 EVENTS
(Nov.
20th-22nd, 2003 ~ Baja California, Mexico)
Weismann Semi-Auto
SCORE Champion
Again!
The 36th annual SCORE-International Baja 1000 desert race is the
final race in the season. 272 starters, only 153 finishers. In
the trophy class alone there were 24 trucks, only 13 finished.
In
their quest to finish first overall, the Herbst team came up a
bit short and finished 3rd overall, 2nd in class. A offroad excursion
late in the race them the race. They finished the race in 17
hours 17 minutes, while the winner finished in 16 hours 24 minutes.
The Truggy lost an engine.
For
the second straight year, our 6 Speed Semi-Automatic Transmission
has won the championship in the SCORE Trophy Truck Class!
(Nov.
13th-16th - Gainesville, Fl.)
Travis
Davis
2003
AMA/Prostar Funny Bike Champion!
Weismann
Transmissions
1 -
2 in the AMA/Prostar Funny Bike Championship!
4th
AMA/Prostar Funny Bike Championship in 5 years!
3 in
a row!
Travis
entered the final two rounds with a 115 point advantage over 2001
Champion Robert Giard, the only rider with a realistic chance
of beating Travis to the crown. Tom Perry had a mathematical chance
of winning at 204 points behind, but he pretty much had to win
the last two final rounds, and have both Travis and Robert break
early in both rounds to have any chance.
Due
to the rain in February in Gainesville, the MRE Sunshine Nationals
event's elimination rounds were postponed until Friday. Unfortunately
Robert Giard suffered from severe tire troubles all weekend and
he fell to Tom Perry in the semi-finals. Travis had no trouble
to getting past Korry Hogan and the final round came down to Travis
and Tom.
All
Travis had to do to win the championship was win the race. Cool
and collected, Travis was on a mission. And when the lights turned
green, Tom was already beat.
Travis had
a RT of .038 sec, an ET of 7.032 sec, and a 190.11 mph pass to
win his 6th race of the year and his first AMA/Prostar Championship
in style.
Robert
qualified 13th for the final round, and Travis qualified 2nd.
Korry Hogan emerged this year as a top competitor and he took
the number one qualifying position away from Travis by 1 hundredths
of a second. Koury bought Wendal Douhat's crashed machine, and
restored it to it's former potential and became the arch nemesis
of Travis throughout the weekend. What Korry didn't realize was
that in every race this year when Travis qualified #2, he would
go on to win the final round. Davis was just where he wanted to
be going into Sunday's elimination rounds.
Mark
Chisholm had his quickest pass ever at 7.362 sec on his clean
new bike. Engine problems just before the end of his pass ended
his day in the quarter finals.
PMRA
World Finals winner Mark "Champ" Wagoner showed he could
put the power down and made it to the quarter finals. Clutch problems
ended his day against Korry Hogan.
It
looked as if it was going to come down to Travis and Korry in
the final as both riders dominated their opponents thru each elimination
round. Travis took out Tom Perry in the quarterfinals and by doing
so, ensured Robert Giard 2nd place in the Championship. But in
the semi-finals, Korry's bike kept stalling in the box, and he
was not able to take the tree and lost the round to the Harley
of Mark Conner.
In
the dark, Travis and Mike rolled into their lanes for the season's
final round. A Kawasaki against a Harley. The Harley left first
with a RT of .036 sec, Travis' RT was .078 sec. Travis was reeling
him in at the 1/8th mile. Then Travis rocketed by and took the
win with an ET of 6.802 and 202.70 mph to Mark's ET of 6.971 sec
and 169.04 mph.
Travis
dominated the weekend and the championship. In only his first
year as a winning contender, he was in every final round, he won 6 out of the 8 races, finished
2nd twice, and scored 247 points in the final two rounds for a
total of 916 points!
(Oct.
6th, 2003 - Montgomery, Al.)
Travis
Davis wins!
After
missing Atco, Travis returned to The Schnitz Fall Nationals to
regain his place as the man to beat in Funny Bike. Out of 6 races
this year, Travis has won 4 times, and finished 2nd twice.
Travis
has really had only one man to contend with all year, and that's
been former Champion Robert Giard. It came down the two riders
in the final round, Travis won with a RT of .452, an ET of 7.156,
and a top speed of 196.12 mph. Robert had an RT of .475, an ET
of 7.462, and top speed of 193.75 mph.
Travis
was able to come to grips with the hot, greasy track and qualified
with Low ET with a 6.871, and Robert had Top Speed of 198.98 mph.
Of
the top ten riders in Funnybike, only two are using Weismann Transmissions,
and they are one-two in the championship. Travis has 669 points,
Robert has 554 points, and Tom Perry has 465.
(Sept.
19th-21th, 2003 ~ Las Vegas, Nevada)
Fastest Funnybike
pass ever - 229 mph!
Chip
Ellis was back on Steve Rice's Green Machine to support the first
Great American Motorcycle Experience In Las Vegas. The event features
drag racing, road racing, TT racing, motorcross, long distance
jumps, and everything else you can image associated with the two
wheel machines.
Chip
was the fastest and quickest rider all weekend. All 8 passes were
within 5 hundredths of a second of each other and he had two incredible
passes, one at 229 mph, the other at 220 mph. These two passes
are the fastest ever, eclipsing Steve Rice's mark of 219 mph set
in 1998. Chip's quickest pass was 6.73 seconds, set on the 220
mph pass.
An
interesting twist in the events featured the quickest Top Fuel
bike against the quickest Funnybike. Both riders red lighted,
and the control tower forgot to rest the timing lights for the
final round. The Top Fuel Harley was credited with the win because
he red lighted less than Chip did. In my video it is hard to tell
the the lights came on. However, in Steve Rice's video, it is
clear that the bike was stationary when the red light came on.
The reflection of the tree lights off the front rim triggered
the red light!
(Sept.
11th-13th, 2003 ~ Las Vegas - Primm, Nevada)
Weismann Semi-Auto
- Primm 300 Champion!
The SCORE-International PRIMM 300 desert race is the fifth race
in the 2003 SCORE-International Off-Road Desert Racing Series.
The grueling 5 lap race took it's toll on racers as our transmission
shifted this huge trophy truck to win for the second time this
year with a time of 4:59:06.
The
Herbst have been fortunate to get new tires made for them that
are 39 inches in diameter and more puncture resistant. In the
past, flat tires slowed them down as often as their automatic
transmissions finished them off.
Race
distance was 315 miles, and Tim Herbst and A.J. Martin averaged
63.19 mph.
This
is the 3rd overall victory in a row for our 6 Speed Semi-Automatic
Offroad Transmission.
(Sept.
5th-7th, 2003 - Atco, N.J.)
Robert
Giard rules Atco!
The
39th Annual AMA/Prostar U.S. Motorcycle Nationals was the latest
stop on the Funny Bike Tour. Ripping up a 1/8 mile bumpy strip,
Robert Giard was back in championship form, setting Low E.T. -
4.492s, Top Speed - 162.92 mph, and won the Final Round. Giard
has 466 points to Davis with 560.
(Sept.
14th, 2003 ~ New Berlin, NY)
Johnny
Greaves and Curt LeDuc win again!
The
final two rounds of the 2003 CORR Lucas Oil Series and 22 points
separated the top four drivers in the division with a 40 points
up for grabs.
Two
by two start, Johnny Greaves started from the outside second row.
Coming into the first jump, Johnny was aiming for 1st place when
he pushed by another truck into a spin and demoted to last place.
Johnny clawed his way back thru the field, then took full advantage
of a 4 truck pile up on lap 4 to slip into the lead! Johnny then
checked out, taking the checkered flag with an eight second lead
over Carl Renezeder, who by finishing second,
claimed the championship.
Round
14, it was a showdown between Curt LeDuc and Scott Douglas.
Battling
for the final win of the 2003 season, Curt took the lead on the
sixth lap. Scott tried to pass Curt through out the remaining
laps, finally in the last turn he was able to push past. But Douglas
was given a black-flag penalty for rough driving, and Curt was
awarded his second win in 2003, second place in the championship.
Douglas
finished the 2003 season in third place and 2002 Pro-4 champion
Johnny Greaves finished 4th. In 14 races, 4 drivers using our
products won 10 races. We came away with 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in
the championship.
(Aug
10th, 2003 - Indianapolis, In.)
Travis
Davis wins Indy!
Hard
work has finally been paying off for the runaway championship
leader. For the 3rd time in 5 rounds, Travis has won the final
elimination round, this time beating fellow KZ3 transmission rider
Keith Lynn at the 2003 Pingle Thunder Nationals.
Travis
left first with a .017 reaction time to Keith's .094, then tripped
the lights with a 6.74 second pass, to Keith's 6.775. Travis had
only a top speed of 189.20 mph in the final, but he ran 2 passes
back to back at 210 mph over the weekend.
Travis
extended his lead to 549 points over 2nd place Robert Giard with
359 points. Even though Travis has appeared in every final this
year, with 4 races to go, the odds favor Davis. But Robert is
close enough that Travis can't relax just yet.
(Aug
9th-10th, 2003 - Bark River, Mi.)
Johnny
Greaves and Curt LeDuc win!
In
Round 9, it was Johnny Greaves who came out on top winning his
3rd race of the season. Out of the hole, it was Josh Baldwin who
led most of the race, then he started to fade towards the finish.
Johnny emerged from the first corner in sixth, and then systematically
picked of each of his competitors, one by one, until he was in
front, then he cruised home to the finish. Johnny is the only
driver this year with 3 wins.
In
Round 10, Curt LeDuc finally made it to the winner's circle this
year! Curt has been running strong all year with our custom transfer
case, but that elusive first win of the season had been avoiding
him. A rain soaked racetrack with lots of mud and water, Curt
had his hands full, hounded to the finish by Scott Douglas and
Josh Baldwin, Curt kept his cool and was rewarded with a fine
win and the co-lead in the championship. Johnny had trouble with
his mud roll off system on his helmet early on and then lost 3rd
place to Carl Renezeder near the end -he never saw him coming!
Scott finished 2nd and Josh finished 5th.
This
year is a tight race for the championship among the top four drivers.
Curt now shares the lead with Carl Renezeder, with 132 points,
Johnny is in 3rd with 129 points, and Scott Douglas has 124. With
3 out of the top 4 drivers running are Weismann products, chances
are the championship will be won
for the second year in a row with one of our gearboxes, but in
this volatile racing, it is anybody's guess who'll win.
(July
4th, 2003 ~ Savannah, Georgia)
Lucas
Oil Race Report
Independence
Day celebration and celebration of APBA's 100th year Anniversary
could not be more fitting than in the historic setting of Georgia's
First City, Savannah. "Fire on the Water", fireworks
blazoning the sky, and the heat of the weather only exceeded by
the heat of the competition.
GMC
Pro Grade Super Vee Series has become the largest and hottest
class in Offshore racing. All the major high performance manufacturers
are fighting it out to be the best monohull on the water, including
the legends Cigarette, Wellcraft Scarab and Donzi, and the new comers Fountain Powerboats,
Skater and Phantom. Friday's events measured top speed and the
race boats flew right down the river and back, right in front
of the
riverfront bars, restaurants and shops on the south side and the
Convention Center and Westin Hotels on the other side. Thousands
of people were magnetized to the river walls watching the high
speed spectacle as the race boats screamed by one by one at over
100mph.
The
highest average speed, down and back, was grasped by the No. 30
Miccosukee Indian Gaming at 106.6 mph in the Super Vee Class.
Second was the 39' Skater, No. 8 Spiderman. Licensed by the hit
movie, Spiderman, it goes to show 8 legs can be better than two!
The team of Todd Welling (Driver) and Lance Henricksen (Throttleman)
were spinning stories to increase the Arachnophobia and pull in
the young fans. Third fastest was
the No. 16 UTZ Potato Chips, followed by No. 7 Lucas Oil Scarab.
"I
was pretty satisfied with the numbers we ran today", added Nigel Hook,
Captain of the No 7. Lucas Oil Scarab. "We had spent most of the morning
shooting a commercial for General Motors, and so we hadn't lightened
the boat up and came out of the water 500lbs over weight", said Hook. Friday
morning, Hook was giving his feedback on camera to questions put
forth by
Terry Andrzejewski which were captured for Speed Channel. "The GMC 8100 Vortec
program is the biggest event to happen in Offshore racing; who
ever heard of a full warranty on race motors?", said Hook. "It has not only
made the class the most competitive in APBA, but it has also brought
down the cost of racing". Hook went on to say, "It's also good to know that
same technology is going to protect our investment in the new
GMC Sierra Tow Truck". Look for Terry and Nigel next on Speed Channel.
Saturday
racing consisted of the P classes and the Factory One class, followed
by Happy Hour testing for the Super Series boats, over 68 race
boats in total. By mid-afternoon, the seas off Tybee Island on
the race track were running around two to three footers with a
lot of disturbance. The
No. 7 Lucas Oil Scarab ran the high-speed set-up and was able
to skim across the tops of the waves at full throttle. This seemed to be the
set-up of choice if the conditions remain the same overnight.
The set-up on the Super Vee class typically entails looking at
drive ratios,
propellers and weight distribution for balance.
Sunday
was the main race, with the Super Vee Class being delayed a full
40 minutes so that the patrol boats could safely marshal the huge
spectator fleet. The turnout of fans lining the beaches was also
much more than anticipated, with literally tens of thousands of
people ready to enjoy the sand, sun and fun of racing. The pace
lap started at 1:30pm and it was obvious the ocean was quite a
bit more restless that the previous day. "It
was all four footer waves plus out there with very little pattern",
commented New Zealander, Craig Archer, No. 7 Lucas Oil Scarab.
"We
made the wrong call on propeller selection", he added. There as a lot of jostling
mid-pack for the race boats to hold their position, with the Lucas
Oil Scarab 4th from pole position.
From
the green flag, it was obvious the No. 7 Lucas Oil Scarab had
none of the fearsome acceleration it showed in the Marathon race,
but it held onto a mid-pack position. To its advantage was the
fact it was the only boat running the awesomely reliable Weismann Drives. These drives are built
to take the monstrous torque of big commercial diesel engines
and accordingly provide amazing reliability for gasoline engines.
Even the considerable
torque of the GM 8100 Vortec engines is handled all season long
by the Weismann Drives with no maintenance required.
By
the end of the race the Bob Bull in the Cigarette, No. 3 H&H
Speed and Marine, took the checkered flag with Spiderman in hot
pursuit and Lee Murray (formerly Nick Carter Racing) in Team Donzi
a very close third. Fourth was Rick Turmel in Pier 57 and fifth
place was No.
7 Lucas Oil Scarab.
"We
were clearly off the pace today", said Nigel Hook, "We selected the wrong propellers,
we knew that during the pace lap that it was going to be a long
day!",
Nigel went on to say "the
propellers we lent to Rick Turmel would have been better for sure.
Rick had accidentally damaged his propellers before the race and
we didn't think we would need
the ones we lent him".
For
racing entertainment check out, if you haven't already the wild
weekly motorsports show called SpeedFreaks presented by Budweiser
and Lucas Oil.
The Weismann
driven Trophy Truck finally wins it's first race of the 2003 season
and the overall win as well. Out of 95 starters, only 55 remained
after completing grueling 3 laps around the rugged 79 mile course.
The Trophy Truck
set the fastest lap of the race at 1:21:41, averaging 56.33 mph
en route to a 42 second victory. The Weismann driven Truggy finished
3rd in class and 6th place overall, 9 minutes behind the truck.
(July
13th - Goodwood, England)
Reigning
Champ Rod Millen finishes 2nd
Rod
Millen fell 3 seconds short of winning back to back titles at
the legendary Goodwood Festival of Speed. With 7 F1 cars as part
of the competition, Rod brought out the Toyota Tundra with our
4WD 5 speed transmission out to try and take the crown.
He
ran the same tires he used for the dirt and gravel of the Pikes
Peak Hill Climb! In his second visit to Goodwood, he bettered
his time from last year by 3 seconds. At 45.08 seconds, he was
quick enough for second place, shy of the event winner Graeme
Wight Jnr. by 3 seconds.
Rod
winning in the Celica last year with a different 4WD 5 speed of
ours.
(July
13th - Bark River, Michigan)
Jason
Baldwin wins second race!
Round
7 and Jason make a good start on the downhill land rush emerging
from the 1st turn in second place. He quickly passed into the
lead and lead every lap to win his second race of the year. Johnny
Greaves got a flat tire and finished 5th.
(July
10th - Costa Mesa, California)
Weismann's
MKVI is alive!
These
black beauties are our latest Surface Drive.
Specially
designed for high speed, these drives are skegless and trimable,
but the steering is fixed.
(June
27th-29th, Norwalk, Ohio)
Travis
Davis wins his 2nd National Event!
Travis
Davis extended his commanding lead in the championship by securing
his 2nd win of the season at the Norris Motorsports Cyclefest.
Travis set the fastest speed of the weekend at 206.54 mph and
qualified #2.
It
was #1 qualifier Tom Perry that ended up in the lane next to Travis
in the final elimination. Travis simply left before Tom at the
tree and never looked back. Travis had a .439 s reaction time,
6.816 s ET, and 204.11 mph to Tom's .586 s RT,&.032 ET and
198.06 mph.
Robert
Giard is still second in the championship, but was taken out by
Travis in the quarter finals.
(June
22th-23rd - Crandon, Wisconsin)
Jason
Baldwin wins first race!
Round
5 and Johnny is on the very outside of a land rush start. His
Toyota Tundra jumped to 3rd place going into turn one start and
passed the second place truck soon afterwards. The leader Jason
Baldwin, racing with a new, custom Weismann 4WD Transfer Case,
soon had Johnny all over his rear bumper, looking to strike. But
coming off a jump, Johnny damaged his wheel, causing a flat.
Curt
Le Duc and Scott Douglas got passed Johnny's wounded truck and
set off after Jason. Baldwin and LeDuc, both hungry for their
first win of the season, traded paint all the way to the checkered
flag. Baldwin just beating LeDuc to the finish line, while Greaves
finished third.
Curt
is also running his own custom Weismann 4WD Transfer Case, and
in Round 5, we had our first 1-2-3 in our short CORR history.
Round
6 and Johnny is lined up in the same spot. This time Johnny and
his Potawatomi Tundra did not get around the first turn too well,
some contact was made, and Curt Le Duc got sideways and knocked
Johnny clean off the track, into the woods!
Jason
Baldwin had the lead on the first turn again, but a right rear
flat slowed his truck. Carl Renezeder took lead and finished first
ahead of Curt LeDuc. Josh Baldwin placing third and Johnny emerged
from the trees with a front flat, but he still managed 4th place
and 77 points. LeDuc and Douglas, are tied in second with 72 points.
Johnny
Greaves Wins Potawatomi Governors Cup Challenge!
Each
year, the Crandon International Off Road Raceway features a 10-lap,
non-points competition between the Pro-4, Pro-2 and Sportsman
2 trucks on the same course.
This
year three Pro-2’s were given the traditional head start,
the rest had to remain back with the lineup. At the green flag,
the Pro-2’s charged around the corner first, with the Pro-4’s
trailing close behind.
In
two laps, the Pro-4’s had made their way to the front, five
trucks running bumper to bumper, lap after lap, waiting for somebody
to make a mistake. Johnny racing in 4th, passed into third place
with a gutsy inside move with two laps to go.
The
leader Carl Renezeder suffered his 5th automatic transmission failure of the weekend
and Johnny was now in second place and all over the new leader,
Curt Le Duc.
With
only a half a lap to go, Johnny knew Curt would cover the inside
lines, so he got a run on him over the front jumps and thru the
fast sweeper. Johnny took the high line around the outside of
Curt and they went thru the next turn side by side!
Johnny
had the momentum and squeezed past. With one turn to go, Le Duc
gave one last ditch effort, and tagged Johnny hard in the rear.
Johnny was ready for him and he held on to win one of the closest
Governors Cup Challenge in recent history.
Johnny
and ourselves have now added the Governors Cup to our records!
(May 31st, Ensenada,
Baja California)
Weismann Semi-Auto
- Baja 500 Champion!
The 2WD Truggy
has been refitted with a Weismann Semi-Automatic 6 Speed Transmission
and in it's second race, it has won the Baja 500!
So many times
over the years, the Herbst Team has suffered from their automatic
transmissions failing during the race while leading in both the
Truggy and the Trophy Truck.
We proved the
strength of our design with the Truck winning last year's championship
in our first try, so it was inevitable that it would be used in
their Truggy this year.
With no problems
all day long, they brought her home to a 43 second lead over 2nd
place. Their overall speed was 45.60 mph, with a time of 9:54:46.
They was actually 2nd overall, losing to a motorcycle, but they
don't count!
"We kinda
held back some," - Troy Herbst.
Tim and Ed Herbst
finished 2nd in their class and 36th overall, with a time of 11:29:40.
The first win of the season has been proving quite elusive for
the #1 Trophy Truck.
For full results
check out Offroad.com
GRAN PREMIO SEVEN
UP
(June 1st, Guatemala)
Arnold Rivera
dominates easily.
Arnold Rivera
is proving this year that he has the car to win the Central America
Trans Am Series. Arnold has a Rocketsports chassis with one of
our "Imsa" transmissions, one that was originally purchased
by Roush some 15 years ago.
He has completely
rebuilt the car and we helped him with the gearing and some spare
parts. With already 3 wins this year, he has positioned himself
as the early favorite for the Championship.
The Salvadorian
won in commanding style, leading the entire 50 laps and winning
the GT1 Class and 1st place overall!
Arnold, 5th from
the right, and his fine crew before the start of the race.
SCCA WESTERN
AND NATIONAL SERIES
(Jan-May, 2003)
Weismann Transmissions
8 for 8 wins!
For the past
two years, Andy Porterfield has won the pole position and the
race in Phoenix. But this year he simply got beat by the other
car with our "Imsa" transmission, Lew Larimer.
But the 71 year
old reigning champion was not going to let that happen again and
he smoked the competition at the California Speedway, winning
from flag to flag!
He then went
on win the double header in Willow Springs, and the next four
races at Button Willow! Even more remarkable than his race record,
is that Andy prepares and maintains the car!
(May
25th & 26th, Dresser, Wisconsin)
Johnny
Greaves sweeps first two rounds!
Round
1 and 2 took place on a new short tight, 1/2 mile track with lots
of elevation change. Instead of the usual 15 lap events, these
races were 30 laps long. Johnny started last and took it easy
at the start to avoid any mayhem at the first turn. There was,
and he emerged in fourth place! Wasting no time, he passes into
3rd on the second lap, then Curt Le Duc rolled his truck and the
race was stopped.
On
the restart, Johnny tried to take a tight inside line into the
first turn and spun. He had to watch the whole field go by before
he could get going!
Johnny
came back strong and picked off each truck in front of him on
a track where people were complaining about the lack of passing
spots! By the half way point, Johnny was in the lead and he never
looked back, taking the checkered flag!
Round
2 and Johnny is at the back of the pack due to the inverted starting
lineup. This time Johnny wasn't so fortunate to avoid the first
turn traffic jam and he had to spin the truck to avoid a collision.
Johnny
had been here before and he knew the task was not going to be
easy. The track was deteriorating as fast as he was passing thru
the field. He moved into second place and maintained pressure
on the leader for several laps until one of the leader's wheels
broke off.
Johnny
slipped into the lead, and a few laps later, the defending champion
took the win, his second of the win of the season and his 30th
carrier win!
(May
25th, Lisbon, Portugal)
Jotun
debuts and crashes!
Round
1 of the 2003 Superfund Class 1 World Powerboat Championship took
place in the waters around Lisbon for the first time this weekend.
Wasting
no time in getting up to speed, Team Jotun proved to be the boat
to beat!
Victory
Team was pushing hard to run with Jotun when they encountered
a gust of wind and back flipped! They were very lucky to emerge
unhurt.
This
shot was taken just after touching back down again after the back
flip, it finally came to rest right side up!
Jotun
was flying at over 150 mph, easily 3 seconds faster than everyone
else with our latest drive train for UIM Offshore, but the good
times didn't last.
Disaster
struck the new 40' MTI cat early in their qualifying run and they
barrel-rolled the boat! Qualifying was red flagged to remove the
stricken cat and Jann Hillestad and Bernhard Bellmann were all
right.
The
team had to install new motors for the race and during the race
while running a close 3rd, a water hose came loose and they were
forced to conserve the boat and they finished 5th. In the top
photo at the start they were in 4th.
Victory
Team barrel-rolled their second boat in the race!
Since
transmissions have been banned, the pilots are forced to carry
more speed thru the turns. In an effort to keep the boats on plane,
they barrel roll often.
This
spy shot was taken of Jotun in testing. Just after this test,
the UIM governing committee received news of the boat and our
new package and quickly changed the rules, banning our latest
4 speed transmission from competition in Europe. We designed it
specifically to the new rules, but somehow, even before we've
had a chance to prove the overall package, the transmission gets
banned! We had no choice other than to quickly redesign it for
the new rules, basically going back into the dark ages and eliminating
the 3 of the 4 speeds.
(May 2nd,
Oceanside, Ca.)
Super
Vee beats Super Cats!!
Reigning
POPRA Super Vee Champion Nigel Hook teamed up with a new driver
Brett Seber for the first race of the POPRA Offshore championship.
The
#7
Lucas Oil Scarab
made a conservative start running in 5th behind the four Super
Cats thru the four-five foot waves and as the wind and seas picked
up, the team of Brett Seber and Nigel Hook began to work well
together.
"We
were systematically pulling in the lead pack of boats", commented Nigel, "the boat was
dialed in and balanced perfectly as she flew from wave to wave".
At the front
of the field, Coby Klein's Kidstuf was cruising. Equipped with
#6 drives rebuilt by Weismann Marine, he was beginning to lap
the field when a trim pump quit and forced Coby to retire.
Nigel
Hook had passed Honker Cut for 3rd, and the leading Super Cats,
an Eliminator and a PX Talon with blown engines were racing neck
and neck.
With
one lap to go, Brett and Nigel caught the two leading Super Cats.
Coming round turns one and two, the red Scarab was right behind
the unsuspecting leaders.
As
they accelerated down the final straightaway, they passed into
2nd position in front of the cheering crowd on the Pier and sets
their sights on the leading cat.
Nigel and
Brett launched into the overall lead, crossing the finish line
in first place - just fractions of a second ahead of the Eliminator
Super Cat.
Nigel
Hook is the only boat that is legal to race our revolutionary
inline engine/transmission/drive package.
(May
2nd, Richmond, Va.)
Travis
Davis wins his first Funnybike National Event!
Due
to the rain shortened event in Atlanta, the elimination rounds
where run in Richmond on Saturday. Travis qualified 4th for the
eliminations but quickly became the man to beat as he easily won
his semi-final round against #1 qualifier Korry Hogan.
Since
purchasing our KZ3 transmission last year, Travis and his father
John Davis have been able to put more power to the ground, and
that pass was their quickest yet with a .457 hole shot, a 6.779
sec ET, and a speed of 195.31 mph.
Travis
ended up meeting #3 qualifier Tom Perry's Suzuki in the finals.
Travis left first with a .467 s hole shot to Tom's .546 s and
Tom could only watch as Travis pulled away and recorded an even
quicker pass at 6.757 s at 202.70 mph, winning his first AMA/Prostar
National!
#1
qualifier Ryan Schnitz and his ZX1200 ProMod bogged at the line.
(May
3rd, Richmond, Va.)
Robert
Giard wins Funny Bike Spring Nationals!
Sunday's
eliminations came down to #7 qualifier Robert, and latest winner
and #2 qualifier Travis. Travis had disposed of Perry Hollie in
the semis, while Robert had a bye run.
At
the tree, Travis left first with a .457 s hole shot to Robert's
.478 s. But the former champ came back strong and passed Travis
to trip the lights first with a 7.074 s ET/189.42 mph pass to
Travis' 7.155 s ET/183.94 mph pass.
The
first 2 rounds of the AMA/Prostar Funnybike Championship have
been completed, and both have been won using our KZ3 transmissions.
Travis holds a slim lead over Robert Giard.
(Apr.
11th, Atlanta, Georgia)
Weismann
4 Speed ZX1200 Debuts #1!
The
Team Muzzy Turbo Kawasaki made it's first passes at the AMA Prostar
Elmer Trett Nationals and rider Ryan Schnitz wasted no time in
coming to grips with his new Pro-Mod drag bike.
After
making a few shake down passes to set the clutch, Ryan got down
to business and laid down a 6.83 second 196.53 mph pass, his fastest
ever! With that pass, he set the quickest ET and fastest MPH in
the 21 bike field, and he was also quicker and faster than all
of the Funny Bikes!
Then
the rains came, and the event was postponed.
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