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BK external usenet poster Key West News http://keysnews.com/278675098847860.bsp.htm Races to run without APBA titles BY MANDY BOLEN keysnews.com KEY WEST -- The November power-boat races in Key West will be missing a four-letter acronym this year -- one many people consider important enough to force some race teams to compete in Alabama rather than Key West. The American Power Boat Association, or APBA, will not be sanctioning the November races in Key West and will not recognize the winner as the world champion. Association officials announced Tuesday that the APBA Offshore World Championships will take place in Orange Beach, Ala., the week before the Key West races.
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The change is the result of disagreements between APBA officials and local race promoter Lee Mills, who owns Offshore Worlds and is organizing boat races called Key West Offshore Worlds, which will take place in the harbor the week before Thanksgiving. "The management of APBA Offshore and myself have not been able to agree on the terms of the sanctions," Mills said, adding that the association would not guarantee the prize money offered or the airing of the races on television. Michael Allweiss, chairman of APBA Offshore said the association has always guaranteed prize money and the airing of the races. Allweiss said that Mills would not sign a sanction agreement or pay the $75,000 sanctioning fee. This is not the first controversy involving Mills and powerboat races. Mills created conflict in Key West in 2001, when he brought the then-APBA-sanctioned races in a week after John Carbonell's Super Boat International Promotions races, which had a standing 20-year tradition in town. With a history of personal conflict between the two men dating back to the mid-1990s when Mills helped Carbonell promote the Super Boat races, Carbonell moved his event to New Orleans the following year. Mills acknowledged that this year some race teams will opt to compete in the sanctioned Alabama race rather than Key West, but said he is confident that the other non-APBA teams will make up the difference and said he expects even more boats than last year's 110. "It's not sanctioned by anybody," Mills said. "We are expecting a tremendous fleet of boats to race, and we will be racing under the APBA competition model with all the same APBA classes, while also adding other classes." Mills is also planning a Florida Keys Offshore Triple Crown event next year for power boats, which would feature races in Key Largo, Marathon and Key West beginning in May. "While we wish APBA the best of success in Alabama, we're somewhat puzzled about why they picked a place with 50-degree temperatures and an average November rainfall of five inches," Mills said. "We're getting tremendous support from our fans and our teams." But not everyone is as confident. "I can't see anybody coming to Key West. I don't know why they would the week after the world championships in Alabama," said one racer, who asked not to be named.
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