RickSE
10-20-2005, 12:31 PM
Anyone else watch Extreme Powerboating last night, channel 216 on Dish Network?
Some good stuff. They talked to Doug Valentine about the ZR boats and the lack of a factory race team this year in the US. From what I remember hearing Donzi pulled the plug on the factory team in the US mainly due to the high costs associated with running the team, decided it was better to let someone else take on the costs since the boats had great exposure from the previous years. Doug did state that last year’s factory Super Vee boat has been running in Europe this year. I wonder how they've done.
They also had an hour long show dedicated to the Catalina Ski Race right after the Powerboat show. Man that was cool. My dad and I went out in a 35 Fountain several years ago with some racers and got to watch as they practiced crazy stuff.
Some good stuff. They talked to Doug Valentine about the ZR boats and the lack of a factory race team this year in the US. From what I remember hearing Donzi pulled the plug on the factory team in the US mainly due to the high costs associated with running the team, decided it was better to let someone else take on the costs since the boats had great exposure from the previous years. Doug did state that last year’s factory Super Vee boat has been running in Europe this year. I wonder how they've done.
They also had an hour long show dedicated to the Catalina Ski Race right after the Powerboat show. Man that was cool. My dad and I went out in a 35 Fountain several years ago with some racers and got to watch as they practiced crazy stuff.