News from June 27-29, 2008 Race @ Burley, ID .....

Pepsi Burley Idaho Regatta 2008 Winners: As it was reported in the “South Idaho Press” newspaper. The three top places in the Crackerboxes 1st Scott Schatz and Mike Schatz; 2nd Amy Ottinger and Missy Monroe; 3rd: Matt Bookey and Dallas Ambrose. The Moyle Mink and the Faulkner Memorial Trophy are given each year to the driver who either breaks or gets the closest to the course’s mile-and-a-quarter record for their boat classification. This year the winner of the Moyle Mink and the Faulkner Memorial Trophy at the Pepsi Idaho Regatta was Toby Clark from the Competition Jet Class. According to race organizer, Mark Moyle, a total of five of the Burley course records were broken over the weekend and Toby Clark was the fastest of them all at 102.22 percent of the record.

The runner up and winner of the Boise Corporation Idaho Cup was Ty Newton in the Pro Stock Class with PS/70. He ran at 101 percent of the record.

Third places and winner of the McCain Foods Governors Cup, at 100.10 percent of the record was from the Cracker Box Class. This went to Scott Schatz.

1st heat Saturday on the mile course. Garland Privitts record in the P-111 was up for grabs. P-9 and P-66 were challenging the clock and lost, they jumped the gun, Dwights speed was with in 5 seconds of the record.

Nothing spectacular unfolded,P- 66 and P-9 were out front and penalized, then P-111, P-28/P-200 were racing for approximately 4 laps when the P-200 was able to break free, P-75 was next. The official finish order was P-111, P-200, P-28, P-75, P-66 and P-9.

Heat 2 P-66 was much closer at the start and took off. But wind conditions were not favorable for a record run. 10 seconds behind the record. The running order was P-66, P-9, P-111, P-200, P-28 and P-75 DNF. P-9 was battling oil blow by each heat, I guess it made it hard to hold on to things in the boat. P-75 shaft started walking again and he packed up to go home and get an early start on the repair.

Saturday night P-28 discovered a slight water problem. When the motor was fired up to set the timing. A bazooka style flume of water gushed out of the right header. An evaluation revealed that a head gasket failed. P-28 was done for the day.

Sunday

4 teams left, P-9, P-66, P-111and P-200. They all were ready to go, P-200 did have a crack in the shaft collar and was still going to go out and make the field and just tool around the course. The gun was sounded a full 4 minutes. Then at the 1 minute only 3 of the 4 were running on the course. The P-200 could not get it fired. P-66, P-9 and P-111 were the finished order. The P-200 was able to start up once on the trailer. The teams not wanting to take any chances chose to scratch for the day and got an early start home.