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IHBA-LUCAS OIL Phx. Az. Race-1 Hello Everyone! Well here we are Finally!!  the first IHBA/LUCAS OIL Series event race of 2009! There are 6-TFH's in attendance SPEED-SPORTS, HOT LICKS, TOXIC ROCKET with there New Carbon Fiber Lite-Wieght Hull, then...SPIRIT of TEXAS, DRAGONATOR,& PROBLEM CHILD. At this time there are also 6-TAF'S & 6-TAH's...more may show up tomorrow on Sat. ? The Hot topic for the day was TFH...TOXIC ROCKET's first pass with there brand new carbon-fiber super lite wieght hull... The boat launched Awesomely! then the trouble began~~~As you will see in some of the photo's I captured that the front end began to skate to the left & right and hop/bounce like a wild horse! coming down track Glen peddled but basicly kept his foot in it, all a-while the boat had blown out the back of both sponsons, which the splash plates ended up in the sponsons including the left rear, & On top of that a major break in the  hull on the right side just below the capsule lid...WOW!!! After all this the boat ran a great 5.10 @ 217...AMAZING! With this said...My take is that the boat even though there was major damage during the pass...she stayed together & Glen was safe  ;-) In my 27 years in this sport this was an amazing sight to see a boat not just coming apart without anyone realizing it including the driver, But...also a wild hair raising ride!! & On top of all this...The boat stayed in it's own lane and hauled azz down the track!! This may of been the New Toxic Rockets first & last pass...But she fought and stayed together...Like a soldier. I am sure that Glen/Joe and the rest of the crew will re-group and be ready for the next race in Chowchilla :-) You have to give Major credit to the Toxic Rocket crew & the boat builder for stepping up to try a Lite wieght hull in carbon-fiber!  Personally...I would like to see stringers,ribbing and strong-backs added. In the Marine Industry we had this same problem with the 35-65ft. seal boats twin 1500 HP Turbo Diesels! Long story short...Ribbibg every 3 ft. with strong-backs added in certain area's greatly improved the situation!   In drag-boats ribbing every 12-18 inches, espeacially in the sponsons & with stringers for a chassis for the engine and capsule would be huge! and strong-back's in certain area's would help greatly ;-)   What do you think Dan...?   If anyone can make this work it would be Dan & a few others I know out there ;-) Anyway..I hope that they will not give up just yet! It may not be cheap!!!  But this carbon-fiber hull will work just needs more work! Remember not all that long ago many said twin props...Yeah Right!! and longer hulls No way!! Look at them now!!! Give major credit to men like Wolf!  for years he has tried to get the Big Hull on the water but you cannot blame people not wanting to change...then again were would we be today if not for those that have pushed and stepped outside the limits!! There still is much more to learn and improve...But we are heading in the right direction ;-) As we all know everything in our sport has been by personal trial & error! With that said~~~ Sat. The day started off ok till 11am when TFH was just starting to get ready to make it's first pass the wind came up~~~The remainder of the day belonged to the Sprint Boats & Hydro Lites! I have to admit that the Sprint Boats are a blast to watch, I for one hope that they will return! Don Ermshire & his wife went for a ride in these little But...Wild Machines ;-) All effort's were made to get the Pro-Classes in at the end of the day...which at one time all pro-classes were called and TFH warmed up again!  Unfortunantly 2-TAH passes is all that got done before the day was called. Needless to say that Sunday was a perfect day for racing, and everything went smoothly. The final in TFH ended in a side-by-side Blazzz for both Hotlicks and Speed Sports...with John Haas in his Famous Amos tuned hotrod taking the win with a great~4.68 @ 250.32 vs Hot Licks 5.07 @ 198.32...Hot Licks was right there with John till the motor went away about a 1000-ft. TAH-Final was a great race as well with Mike Fry's Mean Streak vs. Andy Reynolds Daju Vu, with Andy taking the win with a 5.63 @ 212.30 vs Mike's great...5.49 @ 216.16 If you would like to be included in my racing page updated e-mail...Please e-mail me at... speedfreak439@yahoo.com or captainjtd1960@yahoo.com and I will add you to my list. Feel free to make comments to the photo's all I ask is to keep it respectful  ;-) S/F ;-) Date(s): April 24-26-2009. Album by Joe (S/F) Dutra. Photos by SpeedFreak Photography. 1 - 344 of 344 Total. 11081 Visits.
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1 TFH Final... Speed Sports 4.68 @ 250.30 (Win) Hot Licks 5.07 @ 198.32 2 Whoops! Capsule popped open~~~ 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Lookin' good Marty!" View Comments... 9 The GTX TAH...making a fine pass! 10 11 12 There's Johnny!! 13 "Congradulations Rick on mo..." View Comments... 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Kents blower belt coming off...toasted the motor as well. 23 TFH-TOXIC ROCKET (NEW CARBON-FIBER HULL) 24 25 Then the front started to skate to the left & right... 26 It bounced & hopped... 27 Glen Peddled a few times... 28 and by this time the back of both sponsons had major holes that you could put your head through & the back left sponson came apart as well... 29 and boat kept hauling... 30 Just behind the boat you can see small parts of the hull in the rooster-tail. Click on picture to enlarge, then go to the bottom of the photo...On other sizes...click on Original in blue to Super Enlarge! Just below the capsul lid you will see a major break in the hull~~~ 31 by this time the boat had major damage... 32 After all that...A great 5.10 @ 217...WOW!!! Glen was safe! Just his pride was hurt after a full inspection of the damage to his new Hot-rod :-( "You have got to be kidding..." "Please let me clarify that..." "Hay race fan, how many oth..." "This is wonderful and amaz..." "Mr Ellison, I thought tha..." "Thanks Patty, but do to th..." View Comments... 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 TFH-Problem Child 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 TFH-HOT-LICKS Nice half track test pass! ;-) 55 "Joe, can you e-mail me thi..." View Comments... 56 57 Slick had a good weekend ;-) 58 59 Tony Hangfin as always did a great job of driving the...New Wet Dream boat! 60 Andy hualing ass always! Cannot wait to see there new boat out later in the year~? for sure in 2010 ;-) "They should keep it as a c..." View Comments... 61 62 Gary going down the track in fine style~~~ 63 TFH-DRAGONATOR...Had some clutch problems! 64 65 66 67 Bob is always in good spirits ;-) Just a few bugs to iron out! 68 Kebin in the Awesome looking Bad Habit TAH 69 Sat. Racing Action-> -> -> Slick & Mike going at it! 70 Whata Trace P/E Gary shoot yourself for selling my boat!! :-( 71 An other great looking sportsman Hotrod :-) These guys haul booty too! 72 73 74 Sprint Boats ;-) 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 Here is Don Ermshires wife going for a ride...Needless to say she was Thrilled~~~ 100 "Phyllis, Dan says you were..." View Comments... 101 TAF Driver Dom Ermshire in the passenger seat...Don has a Blast!! 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 These kids got squirted from one of the sprint boats! It made there day!  ;-) 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 This Jet Truck made a great pass...& the Rear tires came off the ground as the chutes opened. 126 Jet Dragsters! 127 Both Jet Dragsters front tires off the ground! 128 129 130 131 132 Sunday's Action~~~ TFH-Speed Sports 133 TFH-Problem Child Rex making a fine pass! 134 135 136 TFH-Hot Licks Looking real good ;-) 137 138 139 140 141 This was the Wildest Pass of the weekend!! 142 143 Jeff had a good time collecting the bouys as he traveled down the quarter mile~~~ Johnny Love might think otherwise! 144 TAH-Whata Tomato 145 TAF-Red Alert 146 Don-did not have a good week! 147 148 Cole Thurston's Brand New TAF...hard left 90 degree turn which the boat took on a lot of water. 149 "DOH!" View Comments... 150 151 152 153 154 155 Cole was just fine! A bit wet~~~ Nice VANS shoes ;-) 156 Looks like Rescue caught a Big One! On the serious side rescue doing a great job as always! 157 158 159 "Congrats on the runner-up ..." View Comments... 160 161 "Dry run." View Comments... 162 TFH-Spirit of Texas This is one Amazing Hotrod 163 4.81 @ 240.34 164 Scotty shut it off at 1000 ft. What a number it would of been out the back door~WOW!! 165 166 TFH-Problem Child 5.16 @ 185.20 167 TFH-Speed Sports 4.77 @ 247.76 TFH-Bracket Boat 168 TAH-Mean Streak Mike & crew have a great handle on this beast!  This will be one of the major  heavy hitters to beat in TAH this years... 169 Bob had his hands full keeping his Hotrod between the bouys. Well...Almost! 170 Kent Price in his TAH Black Draggin had seen better weekends! These guys will be the one to beat in 2009 if you want to win High Points in TAH. Even the best have there off days! 171 TAF-Nightmare Johnny was way off his normal pace! 172 Stan have a good weekend~~~ 173 174 175 The Lites put on a good show! 176 177 TFH-Dragonator 178 179 Looking Good...Bob ;-) 180 5.32 @ 198.88 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 Almost stuffed her in! 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 Pretty Wild!! 197 198 All Finals->->-> 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 Vic's P/M-Freak-Show taking the win...(Near-Lane) 206 207 TAH-Final... 208 TAH-DAJU VU taking the win... 5.63 @ 212.30 (Far Lane) Mean Streak 5.49 @ 216.16 209 TFH-Final... 210 211 "OMG, what a great picture...." "wow! how do we oder a copy..." View Comments... 212 These two are at it again! "Great Pic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..." View Comments... 213 TFH-Hot Licks A great effort! 5.07 @ 198.32 214 215 216 About a 1100-ft. the motor started going away on John, and the boat still ran some awesome numbers!! 217 218 Speed Sports...taking the Win! A Great~4.68 @ 250.30 219 Ol Marty has one of the best looking trailers & Boat in the sport!! ;-) 220 Awesome paint job! 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 Kebin arrived in style! Her had the crewmember pay the fee :-o I like that payment plan ;-) 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 The damage~~~> 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 "Former Blown Fuel Flat Dri..." View Comments... 249 250 251 252 253 "Hey Tim, I like your old b..." "Hey, how'd you guys do las..." "Did you race at another ve..." View Comments... 254 255 256 257 258 Great to see Ken Dollar back ;-) 259 "the old nasty habit boat" View Comments... 260 261 262 263 TFH-Toxic Rocket going home friday afternoon :-( 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 On Sat. with down time due to wind...even the camera-man had time for some shut eye! 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 Charlie Fegan... 300 Charlie Allen 301 Some of the Photo Guru's ;-) 302 303 304 Larry dreaming about dragboat racing~~~Hmm??? 305 John dreaming about the Perrrrrfect Shot!  ;-) 306 307 308 309 Parts of the header melted off... 310 Amos looking things over~ 311 312 313 Jelly...showing them how it's done!  ;-) 314 Parts for sale~~~ 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 Tony giving a Luving Bear Hug ;-) 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 "We need to buy Andy some u..." View Comments... 338 339 It was great to see Missy again ;-) 340 341 Click on photo to watch the small clip :-) 342 Click on photo to watch the small clip :-) 343 344 Till the Next One~~~   S/F   ;-)
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