Say, y’know what’s pretty cool? Winning. Y’know what makes winning even cooler? Getting paid for winning. And that’s what’s happening at this year’s Long Beach to Catalina Offshore Championship. Just recently, PWCOffshore.com’s Mark Gerner announced that he’ll be tossing in a $500.00 bonus payout for the winner of the 2014 LB2CAT Manufacturer Stock Class who has been joined by Dave Tew with another $500 and Scott McIntosh providing another $200 – totaling $1,200 for the class championship!
Mark feels like we do that bolstering attendance through making the Manufacturer Stock class more appealing to first-time competitors and others is the way to entice OEM support and a broadening of the entry field. For the IJSBA Long Beach to Catalina Race, the payouts are not sponsor supported, but supplemented by the racers themselves!
Mark Gerner echoed, “The manufacture stock class is a vital component of the growth of our sport, anyone can go by a stock PWC on Saturday, fill it up with fuel and race on Sunday – let the best straight out of the factory manufactured ski win the class with the best pilot, no modifications – just you and the ski you selected to pursue the win.”
Mark wrote on the PWCOffshore.com Facebook wall, “So which manufacture has the best stock offshore craft that can endure and win this race and the best rider to pilot their stock PWC? We’re going to find out on July 20, 2014. Last year it was Michael Perry on the Kawasaki ULTRA 300X. We shall see in 2014…? “
