Usually I start off by thanking the incredible staff you are so fortunate to have putting all this together, and then I thank the event site that opened their doors to us, and then I thank the sponsors who contributed to putting a few smiles on your faces – and then I thank you the racers. This week I have to start off by thanking you, the racers.
Its been told to me that many of you are using this outlaw series as training for the world finals in October.
That in itself makes me very proud of you guys who have those racing goals in mind, and I will be there at Havasu cheering you on, but in reality I’m not sure I’m going to have to wait for October for the world finals – its very possible I may have just seen them yesterday at Lake Minden…
You guys always throw a race at us where the action is so spectacular I think it can’t get any better but yesterday? All of you decided to kick things up a notch and I take my hat off to each of you and say a humble thank you… and then I scream out as loud as I can – THAT WAS SOME BAD A$$ RACING!!!
The X-2 Army kicked the show off with a startline of 10 hungry outlaws all wanting to rack up serious points in the series and from the general himself on down the line, I’ve never seen such incredible close action. Congrats to Doug Wolff on a 3 heat sweep for 1st overall with Yamamoto taking 2nd and General Dewar taking 3rd. Special recognition to madman Kenny Templeton for a get off in a straight-a-way that could be heard back in Sacramento. I looked back at Jason Ward and said “that had to hurt” but Kenny got a hand and a pull back to his ski from Team Orange and got right back in the game. Awesome racing in all 3 heats you guys!
The 750 stands ran combined with the 800 novice class. Congrats to Bill Austin on a great 3 heats of racing and a 1st overall. Derrick Kemnitz Sr took a few races off before this one but showed he’s still “got it” during some awesome battles with Austin. I dig that 750 class! The only thing that would have blown this race off the charts would have been to have Mendoza, O’Sullivan, a couple of Lacayo’s, and a Knowlden on hand – but theres always next time…
Wonder Kid Brock Austin ripped it in all 3 heats for 1st overall in the 800 novice class followed by Taunia (Mrs Kyle Busch) Wattier and Uncle Bill Curry who made the drive down from Oroville to show us that 60 is the new 40!!! Great racing by all of you and I thank you.
The tiny but mighty 650′s hit the water and for the 1st time in DJSA history, it was a 3 way tie for 1st place – but with the last heat of the day being the tie breaker Steve ” lay it down” Watson edged out the overall win with Lil D Kemnitz taking 2nd, and Rick Robson taking 3rd. Why do we call Steve “lay it down”? Just wait till you see this guy run and what he does in right hand turns with that ski! Unbelievable!!! Whitey Bird had one of the BEST days I’ve ever seen him run and took 4th ovarall. Hildago, Ryan “Art Chambers Jr” Gray took 6th, Jesse Hardin 7th, and Todd Bentson 8th. The heat of the day reached 106 but so did the temp in that 650 class action. Thanks for an awesome show guys!
Wanna talk about sit on the edge of your seat and fall off from the excitement? Lets talk about the Sport Sit GP expert class! OMG that was some hot action!!! Stormin Norman Yee, Tomski Yamamoto, Johnny 5 “lets try a blaster” Dahlberg, and “Bookin” Ben Booker all brought fire to the water and if Booker’s boat hadn’t broke who knows how this would have ended up but thats the final order for the day.
The queen of the Sport class Jackie Harden rode uncontested in the novice class and held on tight through the pumpwash of the GP crew racking up 1st overall for the novice class. Thank you all so much for a great and safe show in all 3 heats.
I only have 2 words for the FAST Stand GP guys… “Heart Stopper” – as in mine. I think it stopped several times but everytime I collapsed on the beach Knollenberg pounded me in the chest and got it going again just in time to hit the lap counter. Here, let me just say this now and get it over with…
Mr. Ian Roberts
Mr. Memo Gidley
Mr. Pete Zernik
Mr. Ben Schembri
and Mr. Thomas Pagen…
there are no appropriate words to describe the incredible racing I saw yesterday from each of you. All I can do is salute you and say thank you for doing it safe, doing it fast, and doing it “right”… OMG you people have no idea how incredible you are but I’ll try and keep reminding you. The speed of those GP skis, the sound of those skis, the things you make them do… I’ll always be indebted to you FAST guys for giving me a front row seat to some of the most incredible racing I’ve ever seen…
Oh I’m sorry – did I lead you to believe the thunder on the water SCXP Supersit Experts and Sprint sit class were going to be outdone by the standup crew? I don’t think so outlaws. If you happened to notice an ambulance on site – it wasn’t there to check on Rick Robson – it was there because after one of Knollenberg’s precordial thumps on my chest my heart didn’t start up again so they removed the Caffino 32oz 10 shot nonfat iced latte from my hand, and told me not to look directly at the race course when all that brute horsepower was barreling down the long straight-a-way. Yup its true, on a day with 106 degree heat, there was thunder on the water at Lake Minden, and it came by way of the names, Denny Janeway, Dawna Boggs, Mike Hable, Carlos Thomas, and Big-G Gordon Lasiter. Lasiter’s ski has a wicked sound screaming down that wide open straight and if it could be heard all the way in Socal – I’m thinking there’s some guy named Friebe that was smiling with pride all day long! Heres a question – how does a guy on a 800 sit put the spank on Seadoo Rxp and Yamaha Sho’s twice the size? I don’t have the answer, so lets ask the dude who does… Denny Janeway, how the hell do you do that??? It’s flat out amazing to see. It was cool that the fire department cruised through when they did cuz this SCXP crew was on fire all 3 heats.
The Sprints ran with the SCXP’s but with a delayed start and separate scoring… and there were flames flying in that class as well. Scotty too Hotty Harrington threw out all the stops and made Honda proud again taking another 1st overall… The Mark Martin of DJSA – Wild Bill Wilson drove all the way from Palm Springs to show us that 70 is the new 30, and not only did he do it – he did it well edging out the Coast Guard’s Phil Lago who tied with Bill for score but took 3rd overall after the tie breaker. Again, my sincere thanks to all of you for an awesome show of racing.
And then there was the main event – the 850 int/exp standups…
9 awesome racers ripping it through the big left turn sweeper on the start.
9 awesome racers ripping it through the 4 turn split lanes… 4 took the red lane, and 5 took the yellow.
9 awesome racers ripping it through the merge lane and down the giant straight past the checkered buoys.
9 awesome racers who just might have run their own personal best day of racing…
My sincere appreciation to the following guys who were literally, the icing on the best cake I’ve ever seen!!!
Pete Zernik
Memo Gidley
Ken Trombley
Ian Roberts
Chris Wattier
Thomas Pagen
Ben Schembri
Bill Austin
and Chris Silveria…
You guys all sweat the finish order and points a lot more than I do – but what I do know is that you don’t have to win a race to be a winner. Yesterday all of you were winners with your own efforts and again I thank you for the spectacular shows you put on. I’ll be starting a new thread for results, comments, and pics from Minden but before I did so I wanted to say thanks to all of you. It was an incredible day of racing and I will never forget the action that took place at race 5 at Lake Minden! (If I do forget any of it, Traci Cottle captured over 2500 pics from the day to jar my memory!) If you want a disk of pics from your class, or from the day, hit her up and make some room on your walls for some spectacular shots!
My bad…. how could I have forgotten the awesome racing we saw in the xtreme 550′s all out class?
The only position that matters in this one ($$$) is first – but special thanks to Bentson (4th) Robson (3rd) and Cornelius (2nd) who threw out some awesome moves for a cash can race of $130 and a $100 gift card from Cycle Gear of Pittsburg.
Mr Steve “lay it down” Watson
Congrats on a $230 win in the xtreme 550′s all out race!!!
An old school racer on an old school ski – making it look safe, fun, and easy…
Feelin left out? Buy an old school ski on Craigslist, throw some numbers on it, and then come out and join the fun. One of these days when 20 of these old school skis hit the line, its gonna be off the hook!
I may have to go out and get one myself – in fact, Denny Janeway I’m calling you out. You show up with a 550 and its on!!! (only safe to say cuz I don’t think I’ll be seeing Janeway on a 550 but you never know)
More coming soon – after I get back from one last trip to Minden to get the safetyy skis…
Hang tight outlaws.
jiOfficial quick version results from Race-6 of the DJSA 2010 Outlaw Point Series
X-2 Army
1) Wolff
2) Yamamoto
3) Dewar
4) Hickey Jr
5) Templeton
6) Ford
7) Mikos
Dela Rosa
9) Lessher
10) Roediger
750 Open Standup
1) Bill Austin
2) Kamnitz Sr
800 Novice Standup
1) Brock Austin
2) T.Wattier
3) Curry
650 Open Standup
1) Watson
2) Kemnitz Jr
3) Robson
4) R.Bird
5) Hildago
6) Gray
7) Harden
Bentson
Sport Sit Novice
1) J.Harden
Sport Sit Expert-GP
1) Yee
2)Yamamoto
3) Dahlberg
4) Booker
5) Angeles
FAST Stand GP
1) Roberts
2) Gidley
3) Zernik
4) Schembri
5) Pagen
Sprint Sit open
1) Harrington
2) Wilson
3) Lago
SCXP Supersit Expert
1) Janeway
2) D.Boggs
3) Habel
4) Thomas
5) Lasiter
850 Superstand Int/Expert
1) Zernik
2) Gidley
3) Trombley
4) Roberts
5) C.Wattier
6) Pagen
7) Schembri
Bill Austin
9) Silveria
550′s X-treme all out
1) Watson
2) Cornelius
3) Robson
4) Bentson
Congrats to Steve “lay it down” Watson on winning the cash can of $130 and a $100 gift card from Cycle Gear of Pittsburg.
My sincere thanks to all of you for putting on one of the most spectacular days of racing DJSA has ever seen. If you missed it – please know that we were missing you but OMG… did you ever miss a hot day of racing at a 5 star site. For those of you who were there, doesn’t matter where you finished… at this one all of you were winners in my book. Racers, crews, familes, friends, staff, and our hosts at Minden – thanks for an awesome day. Lots more to come after a few hours SLEEP.
pics right here
Hurray, I finally finished uploading all the pictures to Flickr
extras and freestyle:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624503327404/
550 all out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624502412422/
650s:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624381896499/
X2s:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624514191356/
750s and 800 novice:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624512619170/
800 Expert:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624516316220/
Fast Stands:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624518898562/
Sport sits:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624517173558/
Sprint and SCXP sits:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624525952732/
Team Orange:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2751162…7624384887799/
