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Old 08-21-2009, 06:11 PM
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What? No cones?

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Old 08-21-2009, 06:17 PM
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I just wonder how they remember the course, I've DNF'd at autocrosses 100 times easier than that course!
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they can only change that couse during high tide
Old 08-21-2009, 06:37 PM
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Old 08-21-2009, 06:51 PM
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huh, that is like 20mins from me
Old 08-21-2009, 07:13 PM
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I've seen them before. They are insanely awesome.
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Check these out:
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Originally Posted by 96CollectorSport
I just wonder how they remember the course, I've DNF'd at autocrosses 100 times easier than that course!
I was wondering that as well. There didn't seem to be any signs telling them when to make a turn at the various intersections.

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Old 08-21-2009, 08:21 PM
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friggen sweet, would be fun on a lake also
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That racing is crazy fast. Watching tie first video, I was questioning why the roll bars on the boats. After watching the second video clip of the crashes it becomes very clear why they are needed ---- Looks like fun but not for me !
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Whoa! I wonder what the bottom of that hull looks like. It was making 90* turns on a dime...
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Why are two people in each boat.....?
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Don't quote me on this as I'm far from an expert, but I've seen these little boats before - I think they used to televise them on SpeedVision before it turned into a BS reality show channel.

I think the poor fool in the right seat is talking and/or giving hand signals to the psychotic animal in the left seat to keep them on course. Even seems like I once saw one of them holding a track map (looked like something my 3-year-old would draw and call "snakes").

Pretty awesome stuff, amazing how fast those little things change direction - though not always about the expected axis!
Old 08-21-2009, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mikahb
Don't quote me on this as I'm far from an expert, but I've seen these little boats before - I think they used to televise them on SpeedVision before it turned into a BS reality show channel.

I think the poor fool in the right seat is talking and/or giving hand signals to the psychotic animal in the left seat to keep them on course. Even seems like I once saw one of them holding a track map (looked like something my 3-year-old would draw and call "snakes").

Pretty awesome stuff, amazing how fast those little things change direction - though not always about the expected axis!
Yes, the races used to be shown on Speed
Old 08-21-2009, 11:04 PM
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Wow. I've never seen those before. Very cool. Got to love all the nice people clapping at the wrecks...not. Thanks for posting.
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no way I'd be those dudes standing in the middle. a bobble and that boat would be coming at you in a hurry

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Originally Posted by mikahb
.....I think they used to televise them on SpeedVision before it turned into a BS reality show channel.

I think the poor fool in the right seat is talking and/or giving hand signals to the psychotic animal in the left seat to keep them on course. Even seems like I once saw one of them holding a track map....
That is funny....so the right seat is the navigator!!! LOL
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Looks similar to what I use for duck hunting.
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Originally Posted by NemesisC5
That is funny....so the right seat is the navigator!!! LOL
kind of like rally.

and ya that's where i have seen them before was years back when it was "speedvision" not "speed tv" which just doesn't sound as good.


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