Key Figures · Organiser

Ross Wallach

Printed by the IJSBA as President of RPM Racing Enterprises in its promoter lists of 2013 to 2015, and named Race Director of the 2017 Mark Hahn Memorial 300 at Lake Havasu.

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2. The makers and their machines, 1985 to 2005
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4. The rule book years, 2002 to 2018 (this page's records)
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Organising the sport

2009 · Likely

PWCOFFSHORE's Long Beach to Catalina race page, as captured in June 2010, names R.P.M. Racing Enterprises as the race's promoter and says the 2009 race saw new classes instituted by Ross Wallach of R.P.M. Enterprises: a Military class, a Manufacturer's Bone Stock class and a Challenged Athlete class.

Sources: LB2CAT race page 2010

2013, 2014 and 2015 · Confirmed

The IJSBA's promoter lists give him as the contact for R.P.M. Racing Enterprises, Region 1, on its United States promoters page captured in October 2008 and in its rule books of 2010, 2011 and 2012, which list the company under the heading Promoters Organized By The American Power Boat Association (APBA). Its promoters page captured in July 2013, its 2014 rule book and its 2015 draft rule book print Ross Wallach, President, for RPM RACING ENT.

Sources: IJSBA US promoters page 2008; 2010 rule book; 2011 rule book; 2012 rule book; IJSBA US promoters page 2013; 2014 rule book; 2015 draft rule book

2017 · Confirmed

The IJSBA's rules page for the 13th Mark Hahn Memorial 300, as of 20 January 2017, lists him as Race Director on the race committee and as the contact for the race's new fueling rule, and a letter from Mike Follmer posted by the IJSBA with the date 22 February 2017 thanks Ross Wallach, the race director, after the thirteenth race, which the letter says was held on February 18, 2017. The rules page sets the race for 12 February 2017; the two documents give different dates.

Sources: Mark Hahn 300 rules 2017; Mark Hahn 300 thanks 2017

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: Endurance and offshore, by the rule book
• Event: Long Beach to Catalina and Back (LB2CAT)
• Event: Havasu 300 and Mark Hahn Memorial 300
• Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
• Era: The rule book years

What the archive has not read (1)

• No document read says when he became President of RPM Racing Enterprises, or what the company did at the Long Beach to Catalina race beyond the race page of 2010 (searched the archive's mirror and the set 5 research cache for Wallach, RPM and R.P.M., 2026-10-09).

Documents cited on this page

• Mark Hahn 300 rules 2017 (ijsba.com): 13th Mark Hahn Memorial 300 Race Rules (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2017-01-20; sanctioning body, high. The rules for the race of 12 February 2017, as of 20 January 2017, with its classes, the race committee and three contacts. The held copy has the contacts' email addresses removed.
• LB2CAT race page 2010 (web.archive.org): LB2CAT race page on pwcoffshore.com, captured June 2010, pwcoffshore.com; editorial, medium. A winners list, the 2009 results as a table with no position numbers, and a report of the 2009 race calling it an APBA offshore national championship run by RPM Racing Enterprises. Medium as a web page restating results rather than the results document.
• IJSBA US promoters page 2008 (web.archive.org): US Promoters (ijsba.com page, Wayback capture of 12 October 2008), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2008-10-11; sanctioning body, high. The association's directory of United States promoters, each a company with its region and a "Contact:" name. High for the listing; it prints no post. The page shows the day's date, 11 October 2008, the day it was captured; the listing itself is undated. The held excerpt keeps four entries and drops addresses, telephone numbers and email.
• 2010 rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2010 Official Competition Rule Book, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2010; sanctioning body, high. The complete 2010 book, kept by the Czech affiliate after IJSBA removed it. Part 8 is headed Open Class with Superstock as an addendum; the Stock part carries the Lites and class naming addenda; part 4 prints the 500 unit figure without a Ski exception and the 100 unit route below it; the appendix adds Special Production homologation below 100 units.
• 2011 rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2011 Official Competition Rule Book, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2011; sanctioning body, high. The complete 2011 book from the Czech affiliate's server. Repeats the 2010 Lites addendum (85 and 220 horsepower) and the class naming addendum, and its competition classes appendix still prints 500 (200 for Ski Division) while its part 4 prints 500 flat.
• 2012 rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2012 Official Competition Rule Book, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2012; sanctioning body, high. The complete 2012 book. Its Lites addendum redefines Runabout Lites as four-stroke naturally aspirated Stock runabouts under 2000cc, and its Ski sponson rule is dated to itself, as of 2012, for the four-sponson allowance on Lites-eligible Ski.
• IJSBA US promoters page 2013 (web.archive.org): United States Promoters (ijsba.com page, Wayback capture of 12 July 2013), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2013-07-12; sanctioning body, high. The association's directory of United States promoters as captured in July 2013. Most entries print a contact name only; the RPM RACING ENT. entry prints "Ross Wallach, President". High for the listing. The held excerpt keeps three entries and drops addresses, telephone numbers and email. The page prints no date; 2013 is the capture's.
• 2014 rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2014 Official Competition Rule Book, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2014; sanctioning body, high. The complete 2014 book. Runabout Lites is renamed Runabout Rec Lites in the addendum, and the class list adds Vintage Ski (JS type hulls only, 550cc maximum), Sport GP and Runabout 1000 Superstock.
• 2015 draft rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2015 Official Competition Rule Book (draft), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2015; sanctioning body, high. A draft, as its file name says, so cited only where it repeats earlier books. Its class list is the 2014 list unchanged, Vintage Ski included.
• Mark Hahn 300 thanks 2017 (web.archive.org): Mike Follmer Offers Thanks For 2017 Hot Products Mark Hahn 300 (Mike Follmer's letter posted on ijsba.com, dated 22 February 2017, Wayback capture of 24 September 2020), International Jet Sports Boating Association (carrying Mike Follmer's letter), 2017-02-22; editorial, medium. A letter of thanks after the thirteenth race, which it says was held on February 18, 2017 with 36 teams, posted by the IJSBA. It thanks Jim Russell of DSM and Ross Wallach, the race director. Medium: an event's own account carried by a body. The date it gives differs from the 12 February 2017 of the IJSBA's rules page (ijsba-mark-hahn-rules-2017); the letter also speaks of a Sunday race date, which fits 12 February. The list of sponsors and their people is not copied.

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