Flashback Friday: WMF Watercraft Dusts Off 21-Year-Old RIVA Racing Team Video

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We’re not the types to sit around and pine for the “glory days,” but there’s something to be said when regional promoters put on full season schedules of heart-pounding races, all building up to a National Tour showdown, culminating in only the cream of the crop being permitted to race in the annual IJBSA World Finals. Not to mention the massive presence of big name race teams, sponsors and media outlets at nearly every stop.

We eyed this great bit of throwback fun over at WMF Watercraft’s website that should crank up the nostalgia for you too. You might be wondering, “What is WMF doing with a bunch of vintage racing videos on their site?” and you’d be interested to know that WMF Watercraft is one of the nation’s biggest RIVA Racing performance parts dealers as well as staffed with some of the best-trained technicians cranking out custom-built buoy burners for clients all year ’round.

So how about that video, you ask. A promotional reel for the RIVA Racing Team, the video is spliced together from awesome ESPN 2 highlights from the 1994 Bud Jet Sports Tour featuring some very familiar names: specifically Tim Judge, Rob Flores and Lloyd Burlew. Now you might know them for their current vocations, but back 21 years ago, we see as a very youthful Tim Judge takes the checkers in Pro Sport class, Lloyd Burlew wow audiences with some stellar freestyle trickery (including a very impressive handstand), and some very exciting footage of then-rookie Rob Flores aboard his signature bright yellow Yamaha SuperJet grabbing his first National Championship – making him the first rookie to win in five years.

http://youtu.be/2uhbhKdWhLQ

Image: Harold Green

Kevin Shaw
Kevin Shawhttps://watercraftjournal.com
Editor-in-Chief – [email protected] Kevin Shaw is a decade-long powersports and automotive journalist whose love for things that go too fast has led him to launching The Watercraft Journal. Almost always found with stained hands and dirt under his fingernails, Kevin has an eye for the technical while keeping a eye out for beautiful photography and a great story.

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