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[Conan71]

Not in Oklahoma City, they just get the state Tulsa to pay for it and filter it through the state.

FIFY

[AquaMan]

I'm not sure that bragging about Drag Boat races was well advised. They have had some bad accidents. I would imagine that a Le Mans type race would also carry that risk. Nonetheless, I would drive up there to see a Le Mans race on city streets.

I always thought we had a pretty good layout here too if you started a race at the I-44 entrance to the Creek expressway, east to 169, to 244 West, around downtown and out to Sand Springs, back to 75 south and ending up at the Creek again.

My personal best in good weather is about 45 minutes.

[dbacks fan]

ALMS has 11 events next year and there are three venues trying for two events, one in May/June the other Sept/Oct and the announcement will be by the end of October for those dates and places. Don't know if it could be put together in time for OKC, but who knows. They had their first race in Baltimore this year and it was quite successful, and the paired in with a new event for Indy Car.

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/alms-2012-schedule-unveiled1

http://www.americanlemans.com/primary1.php?cat=news|16339

[dbacks fan]

I'm not sure that bragging about Drag Boat races was well advised. They have had some bad accidents. .

Name one form of motorsport (including drag boats, unlimited hydroplanes, and off shore power boats) that has not had bad accidents in the last 30 years.

[AquaMan]

Name one form of motorsport (including drag boats, unlimited hydroplanes, and off shore power boats) that has not had bad accidents in the last 30 years.

At their inaugaural event on a newly opened man made river? I think it was two years in a row. Just saying, it might not have been the best thing pr wise to brag on. However, every sport has potential for disaster, even air shows.

[dbacks fan]

At their inaugaural event on a newly opened man made river? I think it was two years in a row. Just saying, it might not have been the best thing pr wise to brag on. However, every sport has potential for disaster, even air shows.

Is this the one you are refering to?

http://www.mlive.com/autoracing/index.ssf/2010/08/allegans_john_haas_knew_danger.html

[swake]

At their inaugaural event on a newly opened man made river? I think it was two years in a row. Just saying, it might not have been the best thing pr wise to brag on. However, every sport has potential for disaster, even air shows.

They did have this problem.....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522018,00.html

People always did say it was a sh!tty river.

[AquaMan]

D-back, I'll look up the story. It was back about 4-5 years ago. Not real big coverage. The Chouteau accident...wow.... having been in a high speed accident that ended in a roll over, I can identify with how fast it happens, even though it seems to be happening in slow motion. You don't even feel the injuries.

That new part of the river starts up by Mustang iirc. That part of the city can be smelled a good ways away. Otherwise known as the Stockyards. One of the few things I remember my uncles telling me when we went fishing and swimming as a kid was, "Don't swim downstream of the cows".

Actually, a quick check shows it passes through an area called "Stockyards City" off of Penn avenue. Mustang is farther south. Its that area that smells so fragrant.

[AquaMan]

D-back, this is the crash I remembered.

10.Jul.2005
David Skalicky died while driving as a finalist in the Blown Glass Flat competition, an open boat division that reaches speeds up to 150 miles per hour, held at the Bricktown Drag Boat Circuit - a 0.25-mile course on the Oklahoma River located south of the Bricktown section of downtown Oklahoma City.     The boat did a "chine-walk", which is caused when the metal strips on the bottom side of the boat hit the water at an angle, causing the boat to veer off course. When the other side of the boat hits the water, the boat will be suddenly turned into the opposite direction. In this case, Skalicky was thrown out of his boat, but hit his head on the boat with enough violence to lose his helmet and receive terminal head injuries.

This one was their inaugaural racing event. I believe there was another one but not sure. Might have been a different type of racing vehicle. Shortly before that time I was in talks with the director at the controlling authority for Oklahoma River activities about putting my airboats on their river since the local authority here was...difficult to work with.