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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AxeMan - Rick S." data-source="post: 28023" data-attributes="member: 1746">[ATTACH]4444[/ATTACH][ATTACH]4445[/ATTACH]Annual Regatta returns to townROCHELLE — Rochelle’s Lake Sule will hear and feel the scream of stock and modified racing engines when the Illinois Championships return to town. Outboard racing teams from across the Midwest will arrive on Friday for practice and fine tuning day and prepare for a rigorous two days of racing on Saturday and Sunday. Based on early feedback, a large turnout of boats is expected at the race. All the drivers want to win at Rochelle and will push their boats to the limit to do so.For the second year, there will be a “Drivers School” on Friday, July 15 from 2-5 p.m. The public will have an opportunity to learn how to drive the same boats that the professionals race!  This year’s race will feature hydroplane and runabout style boats so small that there is no place to sit! All drivers must kneel or lay in the 8- to 11-foot-long boats that speed from 35 m.p.h. in the novice classes to over 80 m.p.h. in the open exhaust modified classes!“Lake Sule is the perfect place for our kind of racing,” said Tad Olson of Marine Racing Club. “It’s small enough to give my 14-year-old son, Carter, a smooth ride on fast water, and yet big enough where the faster boats can really get up to speed. The other unique thing about Lake Sule is that you are so close to the action. It’s one of the few places we race where spectators can see all the action without binoculars. It’s very exciting.” <Taken from the Rochelle News Leader>Since it was practice and fine tuning day I thought I do a little of my own before the race. Going to move closer to the turn 4 on Saturday to get closer to the action coming out of the corner so I don’t have to rely on the zoom so much.</blockquote>

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