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Four classes added to schedule for Lake DePue PRO National Championship Boat Races · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Four classes added to schedule for Lake Depew Pro National
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  Speaker 1: Championship Boat Races. Written by Kevin Schlum, this article is
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  Speaker 1: being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  Speaker 1: After racing boats the last few years, Race Bosnik is
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  Speaker 1: learning the other side of the sport this summer. I
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  Speaker 1: told him, you're twelve years old and you need to
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  Speaker 1: start learning to do stuff around here, said Paul Bosnish,
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  Speaker 1: junior Race's grandpa, prop writer's racing crew chief and Lake
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  Speaker 1: Depew Pro National Championship Boat Races Director. My brother Mitch
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  Speaker 1: and our pit crew are going to work with him
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  Speaker 1: and show him how to do stuff around the trailer,
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  Speaker 1: how to set boats up. He'll learn how to pull
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  Speaker 1: the rope on to start them. He's eager, so that's helpful.
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  Speaker 1: While Race Bosnick is learning the pit crew side of
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  Speaker 1: boat racing this week, he'll also be busy in the
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  Speaker 1: water this weekend. Four new classes, all for younger drivers,
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  Speaker 1: were added to the Depew races this year, so Bosnik
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  Speaker 1: will be competing in four events instead of two as
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  Speaker 1: he had in previous years. Bosnik will race in Kpro
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  Speaker 1: Runabout which he won twenty twenty four, and K Pro
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  Speaker 1: Hydro along with AX Runabout and AX Hydro. The other
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  Speaker 1: new classes are JAY Runabout and J Hydro. It'll probably
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit more work for us because we're
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  Speaker 1: running two of them, but I think it's good, said
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  Speaker 1: Paul Bosnik, third Race's father. Hopefully we're going to draw
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  Speaker 1: more kids to Depew and put them in front of
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  Speaker 1: the fans, which is something that a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: kids will probably never experience racing in front of all
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  Speaker 1: the fans we have. Race should be competitive. There's some
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  Speaker 1: fast competition that'll be showing up, but we raced against
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  Speaker 1: them once this year and he was in the hunt.
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  Speaker 1: We have a little work to do during testing, but
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  Speaker 1: it'll be good. With the addition of the four new classes,
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  Speaker 1: there will be twenty three classes competing for titles this
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  Speaker 1: weekend in Depoo. On Friday, racing begins at eleven am
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  Speaker 1: with nine classes scheduled to compete over three sessions. Racing
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  Speaker 1: resumes at eleven thirty am Saturday, and the final day
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  Speaker 1: begins at twelve thirty pm Sunday. At the annual meeting
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  Speaker 1: we have with the APBA American Power Boats Association, the
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  Speaker 1: J divisions didn't have any organization putting on their championships
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  Speaker 1: and they asked the Depew Men's Club to do it
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  Speaker 1: for them. Bosnick Junior said, we're always eager to put
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  Speaker 1: racings on, so we said, yeah, the classes are for
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  Speaker 1: our young kids who are the future of these races,
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  Speaker 1: so we added it to our schedule along with race.
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  Speaker 1: Bosnik prop writers racing will have several other racers looking
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  Speaker 1: to contend for titles in front of their hometown fans.
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  Speaker 1: You always want to come here on a high note,
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  Speaker 1: Bosnick Junior said. Coming out of Michigan, we were high.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have any broken motors and we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: any broken boats, so that's always a plus coming into
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  Speaker 1: Depew when you don't have to work on anything. We
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  Speaker 1: have high expectations coming in that we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: a front runner. Bosnik three is looking to repeat as
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  Speaker 1: national champion in the two hundred and fifty Runabout, which
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  Speaker 1: will be contested Saturday. He'll also race in three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty Runabout on Sunday. We've had a good year
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  Speaker 1: so far, Bosnik three said. We brought all our engines
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  Speaker 1: to Depew in one piece, which doesn't happen for us
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  Speaker 1: a lot. We won two hundred fifty Runabout in the
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  Speaker 1: last race, and we've been second in three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty run About both times this year, so I'm confident
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  Speaker 1: we have a good piece going into Depew. We have
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  Speaker 1: to fine tune a little bit through testing. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be right in the hunt, which is all you
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  Speaker 1: can ask for coming to Depew. I think I feel
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more prepared than I was last year.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is so fast in our classes. It's so competitive.
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  Speaker 1: You're fighting for minuscuol amounts of speed. It'll be tough,
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  Speaker 1: but we're on the right track. Joseph Perez is expected
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  Speaker 1: to once again be a favorite in one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five Runabout after winning the title last year and
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. Morgan Bosnik also will compete in
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  Speaker 1: one twenty five Runabout. My cousin Joseph Perez is a
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  Speaker 1: top contender. Bosnich The Three said he's going to be fast.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a lot to catch him. My cousin Morgan
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  Speaker 1: will be a little more competitive than we were last year.
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  Speaker 1: In her first year. We have another motor coming for
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  Speaker 1: her that will give her a little more speed. Jake
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  Speaker 1: Kesse will race in the tough three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: Hydro class, which features Peter Nightdall, Curtis Nidahl and Amy Nidall.
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  Speaker 1: Gessler Jake Quest has been running really really well this year,
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  Speaker 1: Bosnik three said, anytime you go up against three nightdles
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  Speaker 1: is tough. I feel with him. We're probably in our
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  Speaker 1: best situation coming into Depu than we've been in a
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  Speaker 1: long time, and we have a plan for the week
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  Speaker 1: to get ourselves a little bit closer than we were.
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  Speaker 1: Other locals competing include Gary Merkle in three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty Hydro and Marshall Walk in five hundred Runabout. Along
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  Speaker 1: with local drivers, many familiar names from out of the
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  Speaker 1: area are expected to wor once again be competing for titles,
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  Speaker 1: including the night All family, Doug and Jackson Hall, Brian Payne,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Creer, Andrew Thurlby, Brian and John Palmquist, Cooper Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: Christy Ellison, and ike Yoder. Every class is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a dogfight, Bosnik three said. In almost every class
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  Speaker 1: we race, it's so competitive right now, we're so close
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  Speaker 1: that it just provides great racing all over the place.