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UMI Racing

A Scottsdale, Arizona maker of steering components, listed in Bombardier's 1998 Sea-Doo racing handbook and in the International Jet Sports Boating Association's associate directory of March 2005.

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Printed above the facts, 1996 to 1998, 2004 and 2005. Printed above none, 1999 to 2003. 2 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

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What it made and sold

1996 · Likely

The archive's transcription of Splash's June 1996 feature on a racing replica of a Sea-Doo HX lists a UMI Trigger Throttle in the replica's steering package, which the archive reads as this company's from the name UMI, an inference.

Sources: Splash June 1996

1997 · Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's March 1997 test of Pro-Tec parts on a Yamaha SuperJet ends with the magazine's own wish to talk the guys at UMI Racing out of a SuperJet steering system and a set of handlebars, which the archive reads as this company from the name, an inference.

Sources: PWI March 1997 Pro-Tec test

1998 · Likely

Bombardier's 1998 Sea-Doo Racing Handbook, so dated by the Internet Archive's item title, lists UMI Racing of Scottsdale, Arizona, for steering components, among the aftermarket manufacturers it says it recommends, with the umiracing.com web address; the handbook's 1996 edition does not list it (the edition's aftermarket list, searched 2026-10-17).

Sources: Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998; Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1996

Likely

Group K's undated page on racing modifications for the Kawasaki 750 stand-up advises covering the crankcase drain opening with a block-off manufactured by UMI, and says UMI also manufactures a turn plate with billet handlebar clamps, sells an adaptor for the stock throttle cable and offers a handle pole spring tensioner. Its kit lists include a UMI billet throttle with cable adaptor, 4 degree handlebars, a steering plate, a handle pole spring tensioner and a crankcase drain block-off. The archive reads UMI as this company from the name, an inference.

Sources: Group K Kawasaki 750 racing page

Likely

US patent 7,794,294, granted on 14 September 2010, prints among its other references one titled PWC Intake Grates for or by Yamaha, Solas, UMI Racing, Worx,and R&D Aquavein, given as an online product catalog search at a retailer's website dated 1 September 2009. The title does not say which of the grates, if any, were UMI Racing's own, and the archive reads the name as this company from the name, an inference.

Sources: US patent 7794294

On the race sheets

2004 · Likely

The association's overall sheet for Pro Runabout at the 2004 World Finals prints UMI in the sponsors column of two entries, which the archive reads as this company from the name, an inference.

Sources: 2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall

The business on record

2005 · Confirmed

The International Jet Sports Boating Association's directory of corporate associate members, in a capture of 9 March 2005, lists UMI Racing of Scottsdale, Arizona, with the umiracing.com web address.

Sources: IJSBA associate directory 2005

Names as printed

UMI (Group K Kawasaki 750 racing page)

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: The aftermarket: shops, dealers and teams
• Event: IJSBA World Finals
• Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
• Era: The makers and their machines
• Era: The rule book years

What the archive has not read (3)

• No held document dates the start of trading or says who owns or runs UMI Racing (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-17).
• No US trademark is held in UMI Racing's name; the UMI marks the register returns belong to other companies and no document ties them to this one (USPTO name searches, 2026-10-06 and 2026-10-17).
• Cycle News of 15 September 1999 prints UMI Racing of Scottsdale for motorcycle parts, and a Custom Chrome catalogue of 1999 prints UMI Racing for a Pro-One design; both were read through the Internet Archive's search and not as pages, and the pages themselves have not been read (2026-10-17).

Documents cited on this page

• Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998 (archive.org): Sea-Doo Racing Handbook, 1998 edition (Bombardier Inc.; Internet Archive item manualzilla-id-6025632, OCR excerpts), Bombardier Inc., held by the Internet Archive, 1998; manufacturer primary, medium. The craft maker's racing handbook for Sea-Doo racers, dated 1998 by the Internet Archive's item title (its text lists 1996 IJSBA champions and paint codes to 1997). Read from the OCR text on 2026-10-16. Its Aftermarket Manufacturers section lists makers the craft maker says it recommends, each with a line of goods in brackets: Factory Pipe (Exhaust Systems), Hot Products (Racing Parts), Ocean Pro Engineering (Race Parts and Flame Arresters), Westcoast Performance Products (Racing Parts and Carbon Fiber Hulls) and others; its 787 engine section names a Factory Pipe exhaust; a page quotes the Westcoast Performance Products racing team manager. Medium: an independent maker's document, read as OCR, and the list is its recommendation, not a test. Held as excerpts with addresses and telephone numbers removed.
• Splash June 1996 (held here, not public): Riding A Rocket, Splash, June 1996, pages 40 to 42 (our transcription of the owner's printed copy), Splash magazine, 1996-06; enthusiast media, medium. A period magazine feature on a race replica of Chris Fischetti's Sea-Doo HX, read from phone photographs of the owner's printed copy on 26 August 2026 and transcribed in our own record, already held here, so it is kept there rather than copied. The modification package and two short phrases are verbatim; the record's account of the article's running text is a summary in the transcriber's words, so a page restating it says so. The magazine has no public address, so the article is held here only. The continuation on page 44 was not read.
• PWI March 1997 Pro-Tec test (web.archive.org): Pro-Tec performance products 1997 Yamaha SuperJet Limited, by Jeff Hain (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, March 1997, Wayback capture), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1997-03; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's test of a parts package from Pro-Tec Performance Products of Murrieta, California, fitted at the company's shop to a 1997 Yamaha SuperJet: an exhaust, a cylinder head, a cylinder-girdle kit, a carburettor kit, a rev-limiter CDI, an intake grate, a ride plate and a handlepole spring, all under the Pro-Tec name, with radar speeds. Read from the Wayback capture of 24 June 1997. Medium: an independent magazine test, though the magazine's praise and its count of the shop's titles are its own and are not used. The held copy replaces a few words, the street address and the telephone numbers in place.
• Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1996 (archive.org): Sea-Doo Racing Handbook, 1996 edition (Bombardier Inc.; Internet Archive item manualzilla-id-6034982, OCR excerpts), Bombardier Inc., held by the Internet Archive, 1996; manufacturer primary, medium. The craft maker's racing handbook, dated 1996 by the Internet Archive's item title (its paint and porting tables run to the 1996 models). A page quotes the "Pro Racing Team Manager, Westcoast Performance Products", and the Aftermarket Manufacturers and Services list names Westcoast Performance Products among seven makers; the OCR prints the services column apart from the names, so no service is matched to a maker. Factory Pipe, Hot Products and Ocean Pro are not in this edition's list. Medium: an independent maker's document read as OCR. (as Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998 above)
• Group K Kawasaki 750 racing page (groupk.com): Kawasaki SXI Pro 750, Racing Mods (Group K page), Group K; manufacturer primary, medium. The shop's page for its kits for the Kawasaki 750 stand-up, undated and listing a 2002 model: a preface on a 2001 relationship with Kawasaki's race team, the exhaust section that defines the shop's use of dry for a Factory Pipe pipe, and the kit lists. Medium as a seller's description of products it sells; its relationship claims are the shop's own and no Kawasaki document is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-09). The held copy omits the site menus.
• US patent 7794294 (patents.google.com): US patent 7,794,294, Water intake grill for personal watercraft (USPTO record), United States Patent and Trademark Office, read in Patent Public Search, 2010-09-14; government, high. Filed 25 February 2009 with related applications of 2 October 2007 and 21 April 2009, granted 14 September 2010, one individual inventor, no assignee printed. Cited here only for its other-references list, which names three online catalog pages dated 1 September 2009 for R&D Aquavein, Worx Racing Maxiloader, Solas, UMI Racing and other intake grates. The record does not hold those pages.
• 2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall (web.archive.org): 2004 World Finals, Pro Runabout overall points (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2004; sanctioning body, high. Pro Runabout overall points by boat, with three motos and the sum. The sheet prints no position column and its cells drift out of line partway down the list, so an overall position read from it is an inference.
• IJSBA associate directory 2005 (web.archive.org): IJSBA associate members, corporate member directory (Wayback capture of 9 March 2005), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2005-03-09; sanctioning body, high. The association's own list of companies holding associate membership, as its site showed it on 9 March 2005, each with an address and most with a named contact. High for which companies the association listed and whom it named for each; it gives no title or office for a contact. The held text is an excerpt of the page.

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