Parker 300

[HB Vic]

GN7, I gotta ask. How many races have you entered, how many did you finish, how many classes, and how many W's??

[Sharp shooter]

GN7, I gotta ask. How many races have you entered, how many did you finish, how many classes, and how many W's??

I'll take this one....

Nobody really knows what Bob has done because none of us are old enough to remember. My guess is there's some early man cave art yet to be discovered with detailed illustrations showing Bob's championships before Christ was born. HAHAHAA!!

But seriously, as far as GN racing goes, the (not so) old number 7 boat has come a long way. He's been layin low recently, but for many years the 7 has been the boat to beat and inducted into the hall of champions which is the top award you can get imo.

Careful with that hair trigger Vic.

[Skyskier]

I'll take this one....

Nobody really knows what Bob has done because none of us are old enough to remember. My guess is there's some early man cave art yet to be discovered with detailed illustrations showing Bob's championships before Christ was born. HAHAHAA!!

But seriously, as far as GN racing goes, the (not so) old number 7 boat has come a long way. He's been layin low recently, but for many years the 7 has been the boat to beat and inducted into the hall of champions which is the top award you can get imo.

Careful with that hair trigger Vic.

Badass boat for sure !...........ALWAYS a front runner

[gn7]

I'll take this one....

Nobody really knows what Bob has done because none of us are old enough to remember. My guess is there's some early man cave art yet to be discovered with detailed illustrations showing Bob's championships before Christ was born. HAHAHAA!!

But seriously, as far as GN racing goes, the (not so) old number 7 boat has come a long way. He's been layin low recently, but for many years the 7 has been the boat to beat and inducted into the hall of champions which is the top award you can get imo.

Careful with that hair trigger Vic.

The cave man art would be go carts, motocross, desert bikes and cars, and asphalt drags. Maybe a caricature of Fast Lane Fitz beating up on me in there somewhere too. Guy drove everything like he stole it.
But no boats. That was after Christ.

GN7, I gotta ask. How many races have you entered, how many did you finish, how many classes, and how many W's??

Few outside the GN class with the exception of Shooter and Dave Rankin know how hard we struggled finding our way in this. Never raced a boat before 2002 and its a tougher gig than some think.
We started the 2002 season in Nov 2001 at Parker AZ as our first race. That's the race that we lost Lance Faulkner and Mike Hoban in the same weekend. That was enough to make 2 newbies quit right there. Bill got lapped 4 times in a 20 minute race and neither of us we all the enthused to continue. Rudy Ramos, Lanse Haselrig, and Mike's brother Pat convinced us not to. Trust me, we were out!!! Shooter had some footage of Bill driving and it was a reminder of where we started. It was not flattering to say the least.

I am one that if you are in, you are ALL IN! In the 10 years we ran from 2002 to 2012, we put the boat on the water more times, and earned more points than any other boat during that 10 years, by a lot. Drivers came and drivers went. We won 3 Hi points championships, and 2 Hall of Champion inductions. In that ten years we missed 3 consecutive races in one year while we thrashed the boat. As Shooter can tell you, the boat was originally equipped with a capsule, and the balance of the boat was all wrong, and I was suffering engine failures that were totally uncalled for. So we took some time and attacked the problem. Those 3 races are the only races we missed in 10 years, But we licked the issues and never finished worse than 2nd in points from that point on.
Problem is, like Paul Fitzgerald told me, racing is like being an alcoholic. Winning is like being a heroin addict. Once you start winning, its like putting the needle in your arm. You'll sell kids to keep winning. And I did. So enticing me with 1,000.00 when I spent 5,000.00 to get it, isn't going to get it done. I need the needle.

[HB Vic]

The cave man art would be go carts, motocross, desert bikes and cars, and asphalt drags. Maybe a caricature of Fast Lane Fitz beating up on me in there somewhere too. Guy drove everything like he stole it.
But no boats. That was after Christ.

Few outside the GN class with the exception of Shooter and Dave Rankin know how hard we struggled finding our way in this. Never raced a boat before 2002 and its a tougher gig than some think.
We started the 2002 season in Nov 2001 at Parker AZ as our first race. That's the race that we lost Lance Faulkner and Mike Hoban in the same weekend. That was enough to make 2 newbies quit right there. Bill got lapped 4 times in a 20 minute race and neither of us we all the enthused to continue. Rudy Ramos, Lanse Haselrig, and Mike's brother Pat convinced us not to. Trust me, we were out!!! Shooter had some footage of Bill driving and it was a reminder of where we started. It was not flattering to say the least.

I am one that if you are in, you are ALL IN! In the 10 years we ran from 2002 to 2012, we put the boat on the water more times, and earned more points than any other boat during that 10 years, by a lot. Drivers came and drivers went. We won 3 Hi points championships, and 2 Hall of Champion inductions. In that ten years we missed 3 consecutive races in one year while we thrashed the boat. As Shooter can tell you, the boat was originally equipped with a capsule, and the balance of the boat was all wrong, and I was suffering engine failures that were totally uncalled for. So we took some time and attacked the problem. Those 3 races are the only races we missed in 10 years, But we licked the issues and never finished worse than 2nd in points from that point on.
Problem is, like Paul Fitzgerald told me, racing is like being an alcoholic. Winning is like being a heroin addict. Once you start winning, its like putting the needle in your arm. You'll sell kids to keep winning. And I did. So enticing me with 1,000.00 when I spent 5,000.00 to get it, isn't going to get it done. I need the needle.

What made you get in to racing?

[FormulaZR]

What made you get in to racing?

It started by being the fastest in the tribe when the dinosaurs would chase them...

[gn7]

What made you get in to racing?

Never didn't race. Paul Fitzgerald who runs the SS 24 April boat and I grew up together. We race bicycles, then motorcycle, then ......
Never didn't race something from the time I could ride a bike. Conquer one form or get board and move to something else. I have always said, I was racing something before boats, and will race something after I am done with them. Too old for motorcycles. If Bills kid ever gets the bug, might build something for the drag strip that is suppose to go in near the Havasu Airport. When I am in a wheelchair, maybe RC boats or cars.
I can tell you this, of all the motorsports I have been involved with since a kid, boats is hands down the hardest to master, & MOST COSTLY of them all. When Fitzgerald saw me in Parker in 2001 after not seeing him for over 40 years, he told me, get ready to spent some stupid money. Rudy Ramos told me to get ready to flop your wallet. Both were dead ass on!
But I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. Its something I had to do, because it was something I hadn't done.