Key Figures · Racer

Tom Bonacci

Fifth in Pro Sport 785 MOD and eighth in Pro Runabout 785 MOD at the 1996 World Finals on a Westcoast Sea-Doo, second in the oval and the dual slalom at Jet Jam '97, and eighth in Pro Runabout 1200 SS in 1999.

Names as printed

TOM BONACCI (1996 World Finals Pro Sport 785 MOD); Tommy Bonacci (PWI 1996 World Finals heats report)

Elsewhere in the archive

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

What the archive has not read (1)

• The association's champions page lists Tom Bonacci, U.S.A., Sea-Doo, in its Pro-Am Sport table for 1995, the title the 1996 magazine report names. No result sheet of the 1995 World Finals is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19), so it is not a title here.

Documents cited on this page

• 1996 World Finals Pro Sport 785 MOD (web.archive.org): Aquascore results, Closed Course, Pro Sport 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. Results of the Sport class at the 1996 World Finals as the scoring service posted them, rider by rider, with the final, motos, qualifying rounds, make and sponsors. High.
• 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 World Finals heats report (web.archive.org): PWI Racing News, 1996 IJSBA Skat Trak World Finals, Showdown, by Paul Carruthers (watercraft.com, Wayback capture of 2 December 1996), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1996-10; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's report, posted during the 1996 Finals, on the heat races of Pro Runabout 785 Modified the day before its final. Medium. The held copy is an excerpt.
• PWI 1996 World Finals Jetwash notes (web.archive.org): PWI Racing News, 1996 IJSBA Skat Trak World Finals, Jetwash, by the Staff of PWI Racing News (watercraft.com, Wayback capture of 2 December 1996), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1996-10; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's notes column from the 1996 Finals on the factory teams' hulls and riders. Medium. The held copy is an excerpt.
• Antioch News 28 July 1995 (archive.org): Antioch News (Illinois), 28 July 1995, Competition heats up in Lake Michigan, with the continued results (OCR excerpt), Antioch News, Lakeland Newspapers (Illinois), issue held by the Internet Archive, 1995-07-28; editorial, medium. A local newspaper's correspondent's report of Round 6 of the Westcoast Performance Nationals of the Budweiser Jet Sports Tour at Illinois Beach State Park, with a results list continued on a later page. Medium as an independent newspaper report from raw OCR; it is a regional report of one round, not the association's own sheet, and the continued list prints place, name and a hometown for each rider.
• PWI December 1996 Kanamori profile (web.archive.org): PWI's Circuit, Profile: Good as Gold, by Jeff Hain (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 profile of a Kawasaki Pro Runabout 785 racer, with a sidebar on the last round of that year's national series and a career list. The issue month is read from the archive address. Medium. The held copy is an excerpt.
• PWI Jet Jam '97 races and results (web.archive.org): Racing: Jet Jam '97, Anaheim, California, The Joint Was Jumping, by Keith Bush (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, December 1997, online archive page, Wayback capture of 15 January 1998), the races and results, Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1997-12; enthusiast media, medium. A second excerpt of the magazine's report of Jet Jam '97: the oval, runabout, dual slalom and stand-up races and the top five of each class with the make. A magazine's report, not a result sheet; medium.
• 1999 World Finals results (web.archive.org): 1999 Skat-Trak World Finals, overall results by class (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 1999; sanctioning body, high. Overall results by class for the World Finals of 10 to 17 October 1999, extracted from the association's PDF. The extract lets the hometown and maker columns drift against the names in places, so only a name and the position printed on the same line are read as one row.
• 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 2008 hall of fame announcement (web.archive.org): IJSBA Announces 2008 Hall of Fame inductees (ijsba.com, 11 June 2008, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2008-06-11; sanctioning body, high. The association's announcement of its ten 2008 inductees and a Lifetime Achievement award, with the ceremony set for 11 October 2008 at the London Bridge Resort. It gives no reason for any induction. The association's telephone number is removed from the held copy.