Here we go again. Thanksgiving at Parker, Arizona for the Blue Water Casino boat races.
But thanks to Al Gore, we are freezing our butts off over here!
I watched one team as they pulled sheets of ice out of the bottom of their boat early on Saturday morning. That is just not right!
"Dude, leave me alone. I am freezing."
Hey, warm gourmet soup. What a great idea on how to warm up.
Hey, Charlie. You want one?
That is probably a good call, cuz you are a big guy.
Hey Tony, how big is Charlie next to Yao Ming?
"He is about here on him. Seriously!"
"Chad, welcome back to circle racing. You shoulda washed your boat first. Here. I'll do it for ya." -Greg Shirley-
That is O.K. Chad had enough time playing musical boats to get him warm.
In fact there were lots of new boats, and some faces we have not seen a while in a few of them.
Big Bad Freddie was back in the seat of a few boats. This familiar Revenge ran in the Pro Stock class.
A few x's were found in other, more familiar boats.
Dad and daughter were runnin' each other down in the crackers.
I am not joking. It was so cold some of the animals were not interested at barking at those singing to them.
Hey, you gotta look up for the camera to see anything. You do know that, don't you?
Fitzy was running strong, but had a mishap and turned the boat over in the start of the SS main on Friday.
Here, the boat entered the water at speed completely upside down after flying through the air. Fitzy was banged up, hurt some ribs and a collar bone, but is doing well.
Once the sun came out and the wind died down, it was warm enough to get the usual suspects out and about.
O.K. the motor boating was a little boring. So the Super Stocks started a new racing format.
They decided to run five mile courses in a "crazy 8" format to make things a little more exciting.
(They are still waiting on SCSC and APBA approval for any further running of this racing format.)
For my money, the best of the races on Saturday was Greg Shirley and Chad Crowder.
They duked it out in the pro stock final in the morning deck to deck until Chad broke a distributor gear after three laps.
Then threw down in the last chance qualifier of the super stocks with the race ending in less than a boat length differential.
Hey Nikki, what do you think of that super sexy dude over there working on his outboard?
Pretty studley, huh?
Really? Nothing? Well- O.K.
Mike was trying out his new Rankin bottom design that really wanted to sit back on the rocker.
Yeah, don't think it will carry that far back. But what do I know?
After ditching the boat in a dogfight with the GN7, the driver of the 47 was left pegged underneath the deck, up against the toe board.
He stood up as his boat coasted to shore. Sat back down, plugged back in, fired it back up and took second in the GN main.
Merry Christmas to all!
