You should change the thread title to “I Love Lake Havasu”
Water skiing, fishing, boat racing, live music, and off roading all in the same hour
I have extremely high expectations for Ultra4. I'm not afraid to voice my opinions, which often make their way back to the powers, and sometimes, I get a nice phone call asking me to STFU.
That being said, I had the privilege of prerunning the first twenty miles of the Ultra4 racecourse yesterday.
HOLY CRAP that is what Ultra4 racing was meant to be. That course is awesome. It exceeded my expectations by miles. They have a two-year commitment to this location, I hope that they invest long-term into Havasu because I'm convinced this location could be very popular with the teams and spectators.
Yes, it might be a little bumpy the first year, but with a little tuning and building some infrastructure, these folks could have a premiere event on their hands that could be great for the city. They have plenty of good people, plenty of cash, and the talent to develop TV and Livestream media that could introduce a lot of people to how great LHC is.
I had an absolute blast on that course and hanging out with my old friends yesterday, they really made my day. I seldom get excited about rocksports events these days, but this event is making me rethink my work schedule later this week and look for ways to use some PTO.
Racing starts Friday for the limited classes and UTVs. I would not be surprised if a UTV records as fast a finishing time as the top unlimited class, so it is not like Friday is a throwaway. It is going to be great racing both days.
I'm not in any way a paid ambassador for the event, just a proud papa to see them make my baby great again. This course goes back to the vision of KOH as "The Ultimate Desert Race" It is going to eat tires, make drivers cry, and kick the ass of the co-driver. There is everything from 100MPH plus sections to technical rock crawling.
Please be extremely careful out here if you are going to try and spectate, I also encourage you to pay the spectator fees and make this viable for the promoter. It is going to be a handful keeping people off the race course, and these cars are going to very fast.
There is so much going on with this event, you better be rested up for this week's activities.
I’d like to watch both.
Is there any maps of the off road course so spectators can figure out where to watch?
Figures it’s the same weekend as the enduro and exhibition ski races.
I don't know about any spectator information that is not posted on the website. I get the feeling they are in the "Build it and they will come" phase.Is there any maps of the off road course so spectators can figure out where to watch?
Figures it’s the same weekend as the enduro and exhibition ski races.
I’ll ask..
I do know they are setting up jumbotrons at vendors village and at various hotels and are somehow streaming the race from a bunch of places to those locations..
if you went 20 miles, how long is the course?I have extremely high expectations for Ultra4. I'm not afraid to voice my opinions, which often make their way back to the powers, and sometimes, I get a nice phone call asking me to STFU.
That being said, I had the privilege of prerunning the first twenty miles of the Ultra4 racecourse yesterday.
HOLY CRAP that is what Ultra4 racing was meant to be. That course is awesome. It exceeded my expectations by miles. They have a two-year commitment to this location, I hope that they invest long-term into Havasu because I'm convinced this location could be very popular with the teams and spectators.
Yes, it might be a little bumpy the first year, but with a little tuning and building some infrastructure, these folks could have a premiere event on their hands that could be great for the city. They have plenty of good people, plenty of cash, and the talent to develop TV and Livestream media that could introduce a lot of people to how great LHC is.
I had an absolute blast on that course and hanging out with my old friends yesterday, they really made my day. I seldom get excited about rocksports events these days, but this event is making me rethink my work schedule later this week and look for ways to use some PTO.
Racing starts Friday for the limited classes and UTVs. I would not be surprised if a UTV records as fast a finishing time as the top unlimited class, so it is not like Friday is a throwaway. It is going to be great racing both days.
I'm not in any way a paid ambassador for the event, just a proud papa to see them make my baby great again. This course goes back to the vision of KOH as "The Ultimate Desert Race" It is going to eat tires, make drivers cry, and kick the ass of the co-driver. There is everything from 100MPH plus sections to technical rock crawling.
Please be extremely careful out here if you are going to try and spectate, I also encourage you to pay the spectator fees and make this viable for the promoter. It is going to be a handful keeping people off the race course, and these cars are going to very fast.
There is so much going on with this event, you better be rested up for this week's activities.
Dammit dave should have had your truck done for thatI’ll ask..
I do know they are setting up jumbotrons at vendors village and at various hotels and are somehow streaming the race from a bunch of places to those locations..
I'm not sure if it's been published yet, but many more miles. They are going to be able to stretch their legs. I believe the Friday race will go into the night hours, but I don't know the cut-off time. It is going to be legit racing, not a short course with a pile of random rubble.
Looks like another epic event I will have to miss because of kids sports.
IMHO that is something that the vendors may look for improvement on since there is so much going on in so many places. I'm not sure where best to locate the vendor show. It is one of the things I'm interested in, but I don't want to pay for a concert ticket to see the vendors. Mostly because I don't like concerts.
Yeah, looks like they are trying to charge to get into the Vendor’s Village. I get that from what I read on the website. Is it me and my Hawaii publicly edumacated ass or does anyone else concur?
Thank you for digging up more info. Hoping it will be no charge to check out the Vender’s Village.
https://legendsofhavasu.com/pages/ultra4-usa
The white sand beach at the north end of the channel has "no mooring" signs posted
Looks like the F1 boats are Saturday and Sunday, unfortunately they're calling for 27 mph winds on Sunday
