Key Figures · Racer

Lloyd Burlew

A Pro Freestyle rider on the national tour in 1996 and 1997 and listed for 1998, winning the class at Anaheim in 1996 and at Valleyfield in 1997 in a magazine's race reports.

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: Freestyle as a discipline in the rule books
• Event: IJSBA National Tour
• Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
• Era: The makers and their machines

What the archive has not read (1)

• The magazine's December 1996 report calls him the 1994 champ, and its 1998 lineup the 1994 Pro Freestyle National Champion. No 1994 tour result sheet or standings table is held, so no title is listed (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).

Documents cited on this page

• 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 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 December 1997 Jet Jam '97 report (web.archive.org): Racing: Jet Jam '97, Anaheim, California, The Joint Was Jumping, by Keith Bush (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, December 1997 issue, online archive page, Wayback capture of 15 January 1998), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1997-12; enthusiast media, medium. A magazine's race report of Jet Jam '97 at the Arrowhead Pond, Anaheim, on 15 to 17 August 1997, which it calls the first IJSBA-sanctioned closed-course races to include a ramp jump, with top-five results by class and the make each rider used. A magazine's report, not a result sheet: medium. The held copy keeps the opening, the freestyle and Super Jump passages and the dual slalom, freestyle and Super Jump results; nothing else from the report is held.
• PWI 1997 tour round 11 Pittsburgh (web.archive.org): Racing: Big Red Racing Jet Sports Tour, Round 11: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pitt Stop, by Keith Bush (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, November 1997, online archive page, Wayback capture of 15 January 1998), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1997-11; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's report of the last round of the eleven-round 1997 national tour, of the first weekend of August 1997, with a summary of each pro class's season. Medium, being a trade magazine's season review. 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.