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NEXT EVENT: Race #4 - St. John, Washington - Webb's Slough

Saturday, August 28th - 10am

Field of Dreams Podium - July 24, 2010

Top Three in Points as of July 24, 2010

Super Boats

1. Lautenschlager

2. Johnson

3. Morrison

Group A-400

1. Hendrickson

2. Olson

3. Gahr

Super-Modified

1. D. Cummings

2. Johnson

3. T. Cummings

Super Boats

1. Morrison - 1308

2. Johnson - 1302

3. Lautenschlager - 900

Group A-400

1. Hendrickson - 1362

2. Gahr - 1272

3. Olson - 1260

Super-Modified

1. Johnson - 1314

2. Ackerman - 1298

3. D. Cummings - 1270

 

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USSBA News

Port Angeles track inches closer to reality!

By Jim DeFord

Environmental hurdle #1 cleared

PORT ANGELES, Washington (July 30, 2010) —  In what was becoming a ridiculous exercise in futility with seemingly no end, Dan Morrison, landowner and Sprint Boat track developer, finally is seeing the light of a very, very long and expensive tunnel.

 

The Peninsula Daily News reported in an undated story: After a year of working with the Army Corps of Engineers, and more than $40,000 in studies, the investors hoping to create a sprint boat racing course have been given the go-ahead to go forward with applying for a city permit to build the course.

 

This does not mean that a race will happen anytime soon. This only means that The Dan Morrison Group, official owners of the land, can apply for a permit. The permit process will have its own hurdles and hoops to jump through.

 

If and when a permit is issued then construction of the track can begin and then possibly racing as early as summer 2011.

 

To read the entire article, CLICK HERE.

 

USSBA Race Mini-Report

Incredible speeds and tight racing highlight Albany race

Dillon Cummings wins first race

By Jim DeFord

ALBANY, Oregon (July 24, 2010) — 100mph Super Boats down the long Albany straights and some very, very tight racing thrilled the fans at the Field of Dreams on Saturday.

 

Albany is by far the largest track in the series. Albany is the USSBA's Talladega—if you will—where high speeds, lots of action and very tight racing are the name of the game.

 

In the Super Boat class it was Dean Lautenschlager racing with his daughter, Loreal, navigating for the first time, taking his second win in a row in the amazingly smooth Slipstream hull.

 

Doug Hendrickson and Hannah Macke increased their lead in Group A-400 with another perfect weekend claiming fast qualify and the win.

 

But, the highlight of the day was watching Dillon Brown-Cummings claim his first win, with many more to come I am sure, in the Super-Modified class. Dillon's Mom, Teri, navigates for Dillon.

 

Dillon was on his game today and driving the #99 boat belonging to his Dad, but powered by Dillon's motor. And even though he had two DNF's in the Qualifying rounds on this extra-long, 37-turn rotation, his driving was smooth and nearly flawless.

 

There was a long, fast right sweeper on the Southwest corner of the track that was giving nearly everyone fits because of the back-wave action caused by their own boat as they negotiated the corner. Many drivers were hopping in the air with some getting smacked against the edge of the island because of it.

 

I asked Dillon after the race, "Everyone had problems at the the right sweeper except you. You were glass smooth through that corner. How did you make that happen?" Dillon replied simply, "You just had to be faster than the waves."

 

And that he was. The only faster boats than Dillon and Teri were The Super Boats.

 

Qualifying

Dillon Cummings ripped off a 73.280 run right off the trailer and then a 72.921 between two missed-turn DNFs and snagged the Super-Mod pole without much argument from anyone else. The only two faster boats would be Morrison and Johnson in the Super Boat class in which Morrison claimed the pole there.

 

Doug Hendrickson took the A-400 pole with a 74.603 followed by Gahr and Olson.

 

The DNFs (Qualifying)

Round 1

Scott Saxton and Frank Farrand, from Canada, had a nasty little flip on their first lap putting the out for the day. Scott was a little slow getting out of the boat, but was okay. Boat was not.

 

Cory Johnson smacked an island and flew into the spinout pool, effectively ending that lap.

 

Dave Lowney and Trevor Lemour had a gentle little spinout onto an island.

 

Round 2

Scott Ackerman/Mike Halls smacked an island and did a pirouette not unlike Cory's dance steps in round 1. Yup. Right into the entrance of the spinout pool.

 

Todd Gary pushed a rod through his oil pan and was (obviously) done for the day.

 

Doug Olson visited an island and rookie Jason Nash had engine problems that ended their short day.

 

The crash of the day was a very violent ride over two islands and a flip for Cory Johnson and Gary McNeal in their Super Boat right in front of the announcing tower. The ended up upside down on the dirt and both walk away and would return to run in the finals!

 

Round 3

Murray Powell and Randy Wild pinballed off a few islands but hung with it only to later beach it and DNF.

 

It was Ackerman again hot dogging it through the sweeper, bouncing of the bank a few times, but coming in with a 76.911 time! That was awesome to watch.

 

Morrison's boat sounded weird as it finished this run.

 

Round 4

Robert Cox and Amanda Vestal spun out, but saved it, pinballed off a couple of islands and then finally beached it.

 

It was Murray Powell spinning out, recovering, smacking an island and finally DNF'ing.

 

Lee Rice had terminal engine problems (broken header) in the final round and would not be able to make the finals.

 

Morrison DNS'd this round.

 

The Finals

Super Boats

Dan Morrison and the Wicked Racing crew could not get get the boat started and what sounded weird in Q3 was the engine sucking a valve. So that left Dad & Daughter Lautenschlager and Johnson/McNeal to battle it out for the checkers.

 

Dean ripped a 70.611 and Cory pulled a 70.938 in round 1. It was Cory taking the lead with a 68.530 over Deano's 69.630. In round 3 Cory lead out on a screaming lap and then suffered engine problems. Dean and Loreal finished the day with their fastest lap of the day and took the trophy home.

 

That was the second win in a row for Dean and the first win for Loreal on her maiden race as Dean's navigator.

 

A special note here regarding Pat Hampl's new F1 hull and re-done Viper V10 motor. It sounded great and is looking to be fast but there were just too many bugs to make it through the day. I am sure the Psycho Racing team will have this beats ready for St. John.

 

Group A-400

Though points leader, Doug Hendrickson and Hannah Macke in the Wicked Racing #01 boat had the field covered by a second and a half, they were struggling in contrast to the first two races.

 

Times were off and the boat did not look like it was handling good. Doug later would explain that the boat was loose all day and he could not power through the corners.

 

Doug Olson would finish second on the day followed by TNT's Paul Gahr—who is now second in the points—Dale Barger, driving Jack Bright's bought while he recovers from surgery and Psycho Racing's Kyle Patrick who is having a ho-hum season in 2010.

 

Super-Modified

This day was created for Dillon Brown-Cummings and his Mom, Teri. No one could touch them. Cory and Gary tried but could get no closer than 6-tenths.

 

Tim Cummings finished third followed by Ackerman who gave the points lead to Cory. Rookie Eric Werner was fifth followed by Henderson, Cox and Hines.

 

Dillon has become one of our most popular drivers and seems to have a bit of a following. He drove his heart out this day and proudly took his first trophy home. We expect him to win more races, but the rest of the class will not be sitting on their laurels watching this 18-year-old sensation take the championship laying down.

 

See you at Webb's Slough on August 28th.

 

USSBA News

County approves permit for September event in East Wenatchee

With a few caveats

EAST WENATCHEE, Washington (July 22, 2010) — Wenatchee World reports that the event permit needed to move the September event has been approved and issued. This means that work can finally begin on digging the track for the planned September 4th event.

 

There are several conditions to the permit which do not look, at this point, to be a show stopper. The permit does not apply to the July 2011 event.

 

Read the complete article on the Wenatchee World website by CLICKING HERE.

 

USSBA Breaking News

Marsing race canceled

By Jim DeFord

MARSING, Idaho (July 20, 2010) — Due to illness of the race organizer, the August 7th event in Marsing, Idaho has been canceled. Jack expresses his apologies and looks forward to racing in the 2011 season.

 

USSBA News

Deadliest Catch meets the USSBA!

Time Bandit crabber gets Wicked!

By Jim DeFord

SEATTLE, Washington (July 11, 2010) — Jonathan Hillstrand, co-owner of the Time Bandit crab fishing vessel, and star of the wildly popular Deadliest Catch TV show tries on Dan Morrison's Super Boat for size.

 

The Wicked Racing team was at the Seattle NHRA Northwest Nationals to show off the boats and caught the eye of Jonathan on Saturday.

 

Jonathan said he, "really wants to get a ride in one of these boats," and was impressed with the videos they were showing. His schedule keeps him busy and he might be able to make a race until 2011, but will at his first chance.

 

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