Racing a Toyota Tacoma

My friend Tyler has a really fast Toyota Tacoma with a 3” lift and 33” BF Goodrich tires, he has an air intake and a supercharger. I think my jet ski would beat it from 0-60. One of these days I’m going to take my jet ski to Markham park and race his truck because the canal is right next to the freeway. I’m going to laugh so hard when my jet ski beats his beloved truck.

Vintage Class

In the world of Jet Ski racing there are several different classes: stock, vintage, limited, and unlimited. My jet ski is old, it’s a ’98 but the cutoff to vintage class is ’97 and older. I was very angry because that’s the only class I have a chance of winning a lot of races. I can’t run stock because my jet ski is far from being stock. I would have no chance in limited and unlimited because all of their jet skis are ridiculously fast. I hope that eventually the rules will change to include ‘98s.

GPR Conversion

A GPR conversion is when you take a Yamaha hull and put a Sea doo motor in it. The Sea doo motor is a lot faster and can be more heavily modified, but the Yamaha hull is a lot quicker in the water. It is becoming more common to see people doing these conversions. A couple of my friends have done the conversion and finished today. They are going to go test it out at Markham park today and I plan to be there.

Record breaking Ski!!!

Last weekend at the Riva Hydro Drags a team from Puerto Rico shipped in a Jet Ski worth over $100,000 that broke the world record for fastest speed caught on radar. The Jet Ski clocked in at an astonishing 100.5 mph. It was a GPR with a heavily modified Sea doo RXP motor. The headers alone were worth $12,000. However in a head to head race with Americas fastest Jet Ski owned by JD1, the Americans won by just half a boat keeping the title in the U.S.

My dad wants to go to the keys.

The keys are one of my favorite places to ride because the waters are so nice. If I go with him this weekend I am definitely going fishing with my friends that live down there. Every time we go to the keys I forget to bring my fishing pole, but I will for sure remember this time. Fishing off a jet ski is kind of hard, but its something worth trying.

i'm not racing this weekend.

To my devastation I was not aloud to race this weekend. My jet ski wasn’t going to be in the vintage class like I had hoped for. The cut off was for 1997 jet skis and older, I have a 1998. The Riva Hydro drags were going to be a lot of fun, but now I can’t race because I would definitely loose to the new supercharges jet skis. Oh well I guess I’ll just go out and party this weekend.

I was in a magazine!

Last week my dad came to me with the great news that his friends had found one of my racing pictures in the latest issue of “Ride” magazine. The article was about a race I did last year. It was a picture of me at the drag races doing superman on my dads jet ski going 73mph+ I though it was pretty cool to be in a magazine and have your friends see you.

Hydro Drags

The second annual Hydro drag races are coming around in a few weeks, I can’t wait to compete. Last year I rode my dads jet ski and won 3rd place in the stock class (I was cheated out of 1st). This year I get to race my jet ski in the vintage class, I am ecstatic. My ski is really fast for the class and if I can get my starts just right I have a very good chance of winning first place.