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Click the logo to visit their web site.	Great Lakes Silver Cup Series	Walter R. Gulley IV Owner / Driver And a cast of thousands. OK..., hundreds... tens? maybe 5 or 6? which makes what's pictured below all the more WOW!!!	American Power Boat Association Offshore	Click the logo to visit their web site.

2001 Trophies from the American Power Boat Association (APBA)
and the Great Lakes Silver Cup Series (GLSC).

What more can I say to:

Mom, who put up with all my CRAP,

Dad, who paid most of the bills and throttled the boat longer than he wanted to...,

my wife Michelle,
who loves me in spite of my best efforts
and indulges my racing insanity,

Robert Grammel, who got in the boat with me and won the above trophies
(I love you big guy),

Mike & Tanya- there is no way I could thank either of you enough!,

and especially to Bob Sepulvda and

who helped Hyperactive Racing become a WINNER
in spite of your own times of tragedy and travail.

To ALL who helped make this possible...

A heartfelt THANK YOU!!

I can never tell any of you how much I owe each of you
for our special relationships,
and how much I love you all.

We started during 1998 in the APBA Factory 1 class as F1-24.

In 2001, I changed to the Performance 4 class, as P4-34.

Visit our old F1-24 web site.
During which time we figured out
that some race teams are more equal than others.

(The Back button will return you here.
Inactive links have been disabled.)

Some of our other
adventures
along the way
are shown below.

First time Dad and I had our butts on a real raceboat.
Special thanks to Larry Hook and the Back Draft race team for showing us the ropes during the 1997 season. We each ran our first race in the right seat of their Advantage Boats 32' Victory as F2-16.

Me as the Navigator!

It was so much easier when
it was somebody else's boat.

My first time with a TV camera in my face.
GLSC Finals, Oshkosh, WI, 1998.
We took second place.

That's Mike St. Amand of AeroEfx with the camera.

Pulling out of the pits at our first national race, Toronto, ON, 1998.

We have even stored the competition's boat at our facility when
we were on the way from one race site to another.
In case you were wondering, team Chaos finished the next race
way ahead of us, without any mechanical problems.

You have heard of shade-tree mechanics?
Well, here they are...
(on the left, NOT the right!!)

After Toronto, we really knew we had a need for speed.
Harry Christensen of Advantage Boat's F2-64 provided
the funds for a drive spacer to see if that would help.

It was ordered from Latham Marine and shipped over night.
The

represenative who was on site,

the great guys on the

support truck shown above,

Back Draft Racing,
and several other teams helped with the installation.

Many thanks to all who lent us expertise and a helping hand
at the APBA 1998 Offshore Worlds in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Dad and I, still as pretty-much-rookies in Hyperactive's Advantage 27' Victory
at the 1998 APBA Offshore Worlds, Biloxi, Mississippi.
We got spanked, as in DEAD LAST in the Factory 1 class, through full fault of our own.

For those of you fortunate souls who have yet to be there,
try to imagine cruising along at 75-or-so miles per hour on the water
under the stress of APBA Offshore Worlds.
You are getting beaten to Hell.
We have a video clip of our whole white bottom
momentarily showing when the boat went over on its side in turn 3.

After another cold and miserable Michigan winter,
(this was before we started snowmobiling!)

the 1999 season got off to an interesting start . . .

Oops. We broke the boat!

July 4, 1999 at the Eastlake, OH race.

Quite an adventure - not recommended for the faint of heart.
So much for the 1999 season.

By the middle of 2000 I was reduced to playing with cats.
But what the hey, gets me on the water.

Special thanks to Doug and the gang at Aqua Sports Marine in Fenton, Michigan
for the use of this wonderful Eliminator 25' Daytona at the A.R.T.A. Poker Run
on Lake St. Clair to benefit the Michigan Special Olympics.

It was 2 years before I had another 80 MPH boat to drive.

With another Eliminator from Aqua Sports,
dad and I did manage to get in 2 races during the 2000 season.

This is from the Fairport, Ohio race.

Advantage Boats delivered our new, bigger, boat a few weeks before the 2001 season.
We rigged it from scratch and made the first race of the season.

Dad & I in the new Advantage 30 Victory the first time out
on lake St. Clair in the Great lakes 2001 Silver Cup Series.

After a particularly rough second race in the 2001 season,
Dad "retired" from the Throttle Man position
in the hope that he could actually start enjoying boating again.

So, here is "retired" dad at the very next race, holding the helm now,
with his friend Ron Grammel (Robert's dad)
in the Hyperactive support vessel as Patrol Boat 1.

2001 GLCS St. Clair River race, at St. Clair, Michigan.

Notice the 2 wave runners off the port bow.
The orange vest is U.S. Coast Guard,
and the yellow is the local sherrif patrol.

So,
as we started with at the top of this site,
Hyperactive Racing
finished the 2001 season as the
high-points champions!
in the APBA Central Division,
Performance 4 Class.

Who knows what the 2002 season will bring?

Come on out and see for yourself!

Click here to find out more about the race sites and the series.
Hope to see you there!

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We love them both, and recommend them highly!

Thanks for stopping by!

Walt Gulley