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Frank Romero

First in Pro Runabout 1200 at the 1996 World Finals on the class sheet, after two round wins on that year's national tour on a Polaris, and listed with the team Big Red Racing in the 1998 tour lineup.

At a glance

Role
Racer
On the record
2 years, from 1996 to 1998
Disciplines
Closed course
Titles on the record
1 title, each off a held results document
In the archive
1 history chapter and 2 events
  1. The early years, in print, 1981 to 1993
  2. The makers and their machines, 1985 to 2005 (this page's records)
  3. Noise, safety and federal rules, 1996 to 2002
  4. The rule book years, 2002 to 2018
  5. Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

The eras this page's records fall in are drawn solid; the others are hollow.

How we know: Each bar runs the years printed on that era's panel, and which eras a page falls in is the archive's grouping of its records, not the length of anyone's career.

Years 1996 to 1998, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact or in a title row and hollow for a year printed above none, with a small outlined triangle over each title year. 1996 1998
  • a year printed above a fact or in a title row on this page
  • a year printed above no fact and in no title row
  • a title year

Printed above the facts or in the title rows, 1996 and 1998. Printed above none, 1997. Title year 1996. 2 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact or in a title row on this page, one box a year.

How we know: the year printed above each fact, and the Year column of the titles table, below; an honour carries no activity year, so it marks no box.

  • Confirmed 2

  • Likely 4

  • Contested 0

1 title row carries no grade word and is not counted here.

The grade word on each fact on this page, counted. It grades how firmly the documents tie each fact to this person, not the person.

How we know: the word printed above each fact below, counted on this page only.

Titles on the record (1)

Each read off a results document the archive holds: a result sheet, or, for a season's title, the body's own champions grid or season table, with the name as that document prints it.

YearEventClassPlacingName as printedDocument
19961996 Skat-Trak World FinalsPro Runabout 1200 MOD1stFRANK ROMERO1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 1200 MOD

Results

1996 · Confirmed

The class page posted by Aquascore for the 1996 Skat-Trak World Finals at Lake Havasu City lists FRANK ROMERO first of 26 registered riders, on a Polaris, with moto finishes of 1 and 2 after winning his heat. Personal Watercraft Illustrated's profile of March 1997 describes the same final, a heat win and a first and a second in the motos.

Sources: 1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 1200 MOD; PWI March 1997 Romero profile

1996 · Confirmed

The scorer's Pro Runabout 785 MOD page from the 1996 Finals lists him sixteenth, also on a Polaris.

Sources: 1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 785 MOD

1996 · Likely

The magazine's reports of the 1996 IJSBA Budweiser Jet Sports Tour list Frank Romero (Pol) fourth in Pro Runabout 1200 at the opening round in Savannah, Georgia, and say he took his first overall win in the class at round nine in Richland, Washington, then won the final round in Anaheim, California, leading every lap of the first moto and taking the early lead in the second. Its final standings print him level on points with Victor Sheldon, and its report says the tie went to Sheldon on wins. That he is the rider of the 1996 sheet is the archive's reading from the name, the class and the Polaris, an inference.

Sources: PWI 1996 tour round 1 Savannah; PWI 1996 tour rounds 9 and 10

Likely

The March 1997 profile says that in 1991 he raced as a Pro for the first time, on the Prime Hot Water Tour, while racing in the Expert ranks of the IJSBA National Tour for Chris Fischetti's Holeshot Engineering. It is the writer's account, written six years later.

Sources: PWI March 1997 Romero profile

1998 · Likely

The magazine's Pro Files, its lineup for the 1998 IJSBA Big Red Racing Jet Sports Tour, list Frank Romero in Pro Runabout 785 as number 211, with the team Big Red Racing and Polaris first among his sponsors. The archive takes this entry for the racer of the 1996 Finals from the name, a Polaris and a runabout class, an inference.

Sources: PWI Pro Files 1998

Recognition

Likely

The hall of fame page of the International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA) lists Frank Romero among its 2012 inductees. The roster gives names only, so the archive reads the entry as this racer from the name.

Sources: IJSBA hall of fame page

Elsewhere in the archive

Documents cited on this page

  • 1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 1200 MOD (web.archive.org): Aquascore results, Closed Course, Pro Runabout 1200 MOD, 1996 Skat-Trak World Finals, Lake Havasu City, 10/11/96 (malls-ltd.com, Wayback capture of 10 November 1996), Aquascore, the results service of the 1996 Skat-Trak World Finals, 1996-10-11; sanctioning body, high. The event's own scored results for the class, as its scoring service posted them: each rider's final place, motos, qualifying rounds, make and sponsors, one cell to a line. High as the results document.
  • PWI March 1997 Romero profile (web.archive.org): Profile: Pro Runabout 1200 World Champion Frank Romero, by Keith Bush (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, March 1997, online archive page, Wayback capture of 24 June 1997), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1997-03; enthusiast media, medium. A magazine profile of a Polaris runabout racer written after the 1996 season, with the writer's account of his earlier racing. Medium for the writer's own sentences; the quoted words are the rider's. The held copy is an excerpt.
  • 1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 785 MOD (web.archive.org): Aquascore results, Closed Course, Pro Runabout 785 MOD, 1996 Skat-Trak World Finals, Lake Havasu City, 10/11/96 (malls-ltd.com, Wayback capture of 10 November 1996), Aquascore, the results service of the 1996 Skat-Trak World Finals, 1996-10-11; sanctioning body, high. The scoring service's page for the 1996 World Finals class of 31 registered riders, giving for each the final place, the two motos, the heat or last-chance qualifier, make and sponsor lines. High.
  • PWI 1996 tour round 1 Savannah (web.archive.org): Racing: IJSBA Budweiser Jet Sports Tour, Round 1, Savannah, Georgia, by Paul Carruthers and Jeff Hain (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1996, online archive page, Wayback capture of 2 December 1996), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1996-08; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's report of the opening round of the 1996 national tour, which it places on Tybee Island in late May, with top-ten lines for the pro classes. Read as a period race report, not a result sheet, so medium. Its month follows the archive address of the page. The held copy is an excerpt.
  • PWI 1996 tour rounds 9 and 10 (web.archive.org): Racing: IJSBA Budweiser Jet Sports Tour, Rounds 9 and 10, Richland, Washington; Anaheim, California, Last Roundup, by Keith Bush (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, December 1996, online archive page, Wayback capture of 24 June 1997), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1996-12; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's report of the last two rounds of the 1996 national tour and its table of final point standings for the pro classes. Medium as a period race report; the win counts printed beside the points do not always agree with the report's own text, so they are not used. The held copy is an excerpt.
  • PWI Pro Files 1998 (web.archive.org): The Pro Files: the Pro and Pro-Am lineup for the 1998 IJSBA Big Red Racing Jet Sports Tour, compiled by Keith Bush (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online, Wayback capture of 15 June 1998), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1998; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's lineup of the pro and pro-am riders for the 1998 national tour: each rider's classes and number, team and sponsors, with a short note in the magazine's words. Medium; a title in a note is the magazine's say-so, not a result sheet. The held copy is an excerpt.
  • IJSBA hall of fame page (ijsba.com): The Jacobsen-Stjernstrom IJSBA Hall of Fame (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association; sanctioning body, high. The association's own roster, read on 22 September 2026, giving the hall's name, its creation and dedication in 2006, and inductees by year to 2014, names only. It publishes no selection criteria and no citation for anyone.
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