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Tim Judge

Riva Yamaha's chief race mechanic and tuner in a 2001 magazine test, and a Pro Sport rider named in the same magazine's 1996 test of the dealer's WaveRaider package

At a glance

Role
Tuner and racer
On the record
2 years, from 2001 to 2012
Disciplines
Closed course
Titles on the record
none read off a held results document yet
In the archive
1 history chapter
  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 (this page's records)
  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 2001 to 2012, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 2001 2010 2012
  • a year printed above a fact on this page
  • a year printed above no fact

Printed above the facts, 2001 and 2012. Printed above none, 2002 to 2011. 4 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

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

How we know: the year printed above each fact below; an honour carries no activity year, so it marks no box.

  • Confirmed 0

  • Likely 6

  • Contested 0

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.

Results

Likely

The same magazine's 1996 test of a Riva Yamaha package for the WaveRaider, by Jeff Hain, introduces the dealer as the Riva Yamaha for which Tim Judge has won one World and three National Pro Sport titles. That is the magazine's own sentence; it names no year.

Sources: PWI 1996 Riva WaveRaider test

Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's profile of Chris MacClugage in September 1997 says that in his first year on the SuperJet he was also challenging Tim Judge for the Pro Sport crown on the tour, eventually finishing second by less than 20 points. The held excerpt does not say where Judge finished or name Riva beside him; reading this Tim Judge as the Riva Yamaha rider of the 1996 test rests on the name and the Pro Sport class, an inference the archive draws.

Sources: PWI September 1997 MacClugage profile

Business

2001 · Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's test of Riva Yamaha's Stage II kit for the GP1200R, by Lee Bower, as captured on the magazine's site in August 2001, calls Tim Judge the chief race mechanic and tuner for Riva Yamaha and a former Pro Sport Champion. At Riva's Performance Demo in Key Largo, held in February by the article's account, he rode the test craft on the radar runs while the writer recorded the data. The 2001 model year of the craft dates the test.

Sources: PWI online Riva Stage II 2001

2012 · Likely

Sea-Doo's OnBoard blog of 24 July 2012, on the IJSBA's Virginia National, quotes the Pro Stock winner thanking his tuner Bo Dupriest, Tim Judge and RIVA for preparing him for that weekend. Reading this Tim Judge as Riva's tuner of 2001 rests on the name and on RIVA in the same line, an inference the archive draws.

Sources: Sea-Doo OnBoard 24 July 2012

Likely

RIVA Racing's own history page says that by the early 1990s the dealer had launched a championship race effort led by Tim Judge, and that his National and World number 1 plaques hang in its showroom. The Watercraft Journal's 2015 feature on the company, written on a visit at its president's invitation, tells the same history. Both are the company's account.

Sources: RIVA Racing About page; Watercraft Journal 17 July 2015

Recognition

Likely

The International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA) lists Tim Judge among the 25 inductees of 2006 on its hall of fame roster, and its post of 14 July 2006 announcing those first inductees prints the same name. Both print names only, so the archive reads the name as this person.

Sources: IJSBA hall of fame page; IJSBA post first hall inductees 2006

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (2)

  • The association's champions page, a finding aid, lists Tim Judge for 1994 under Pro-Am Sport. No result sheet of that World Finals, and none of the National Pro Sport titles the 1996 test mentions, is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).
  • IJSBA race reports of 2013 print Judge Motorsports among riders' sponsors; no document read ties that name to him (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).

Documents cited on this page

  • PWI online Riva Stage II 2001 (web.archive.org): Riva Yamaha Stage II GP1200R (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online, Wayback capture of 16 August 2001), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 2001; enthusiast media, medium. A magazine test of a Riva Yamaha parts package, run at a February performance demonstration and posted on the magazine's site; the page prints no date of its own, and the capture date is the only date held. Its opening says the dealer had announced a racer-support programme some months before and was, for the first time in years, not fielding a pro-level team. Medium, as a trade magazine's report of its day. The article's product verdicts and the dealer's claims it repeats are not used.
  • PWI 1996 Riva WaveRaider test (web.archive.org): Test: Riva Yamaha's WaveRaider 701 bolt-on performance package (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1996, Wayback capture), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1996; enthusiast media, medium. A period magazine's test of Riva Yamaha's bolt-on parts, run in March 1996 and posted in the magazine's 1996 web archive, which names the riders the Pompano Beach dealer then sponsored. Medium as a period trade report. The held copy of the 1996 test is an excerpt, with the dealer's phone and fax numbers replaced.
  • PWI September 1997 MacClugage profile (web.archive.org): Profile: Multi-time World and National Champion Chris MacClugage, The Two Macs, by Joel Johnson (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, September 1997; Wayback capture of 15 January 1998), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1997-09; editorial, medium. The magazine's profile of a racer, held for its account of his first year on the SuperJet and of his challenge to Tim Judge for the Pro Sport crown on the tour that season. Period trade press by an independent publisher, so medium; written some years after the season it describes. The held copy is an excerpt.
  • Sea-Doo OnBoard 24 July 2012 (web.archive.org): X-TEAM TUESDAY: Snyder and Baldwin give Sea-Doo 1-1 win in Pro Stock and Pro Open at Virginia National (Sea-Doo OnBoard, 24 July 2012, Wayback capture), Sea-Doo OnBoard (BRP), 2012-07-24; manufacturer primary, medium. A maker's blog post on the 2012 IJSBA Virginia National, read from a Wayback capture of the blog's tag page. It is the maker's own account of its riders' results; the round's sheet is not held.
  • RIVA Racing About page (rivaracing.com): RIVA Racing's History: Humble Beginnings (RIVA Racing About page), RIVA Racing; manufacturer primary, low. The company's own account of its history, as read on 5 October 2026: a shop opened in 1979, its watercraft years from 1987, and the dealer's appointment as the first official Yamaha factory race team for personal watercraft competition in 1992. Low, because every date on it is the company's own telling of its history, and it cites no Yamaha document. The held copy omits the site menus and replaces the phone numbers and a few words in place.
  • Watercraft Journal 17 July 2015 (watercraftjournal.com): The Golden Ticket: Behind-The-Curtain of RIVA Motorsports and RIVA Racing (The Watercraft Journal, 17 July 2015), The Watercraft Journal, 2015-07-17; enthusiast media, medium. A shop-tour feature on RIVA written from a visit, naming racers the dealer's team sponsored, without dating them. Medium as trade press; what it says of RIVA's own past is the company's account as told to the writer. The held copy of the 2015 feature is an excerpt, with the editor's address placeholder replaced.
  • 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.
  • IJSBA post first hall inductees 2006 (ijsba.com): IJSBA Monthly Update for June and World Finals Announcement (IJSBA news post dated 14 July 2006), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2006-07-14; sanctioning body, high. The association's announcement of the first 25 people for its hall of fame, 25 in honour of its 25th World Finals, with a short account of how they were chosen and who helped draw up the candidates. It prints names only, five of them spelt otherwise than on the hall's roster page. High for the association's own account of its hall. The held copy is an excerpt.
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“Tim Judge”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/key-figures/tim-judge/

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