2026 IJSBA World Finals: Team Goatcher Racing at Lake Havasu

The 2026 IJSBA World Finals story for Team Goatcher Racing starts with the riders, not a borrowed recap from an earlier season. The team’s supplied website information records finishes across junior racing, Sport Spec, Vintage X2 and several ski divisions. Parker Toth’s newer media kit adds a more detailed account of his own campaign and takes priority where it differs from the earlier team sheet. Together, those documents give us a specific picture of the team’s results at Lake Havasu and a starting point for the 2027 season ahead.

This article covers 2026, not the 2025 World Finals. The finishes below come from the team’s documents, with Parker’s two World Finals results taken from his media kit. They are not presented as a newly researched official full-field standings release. Exact event dates, points and moto breakdowns are not supplied for these entries, so none have been guessed. The distinction matters: celebrating a rider’s documented finish should never require inventing the details around it.

Louie Venditto and Hunter Burks in Vintage X2

The supplied results place Louie Venditto second in Vintage X2 and Hunter Burks fifth in Vintage X2. These entries show two Team Goatcher Racing riders competing in the same division, with Louie’s runner-up finish adding another podium to the documented team picture. They should be read as class results, not as an overall ranking across the event.

Louie’s personal story makes the result more meaningful. His supplied biography traces his racing start to a sponsored entry fee in 2018 and describes a family involvement that now includes Jake’s racing. Louie Venditto has the fuller background. It is a reminder that the people around a rider can be as important to understanding a program as the number next to their name.

Hunter’s World Finals fifth place sits alongside the championship material in his partner deck. That deck lists Best of the West / Nauti Water and National High Points titles for 2025 and 2026. Those season achievements are distinct from his World Finals placing; they should not be confused with a World Finals championship. Hunter Burks introduces the rider and his racing background, while this recap keeps the Havasu result clearly identified as fifth in Vintage X2.

Parker Toth: the media kit is the source

Parker Toth’s newer media kit records fifth in Amateur Ski GP and third in Junior Ski Mod 13–15 at the 2026 World Finals. These are the results used on his rider page and the Events page. They replace the conflicting Amateur class and position in the earlier team sheet. Keeping the source consistent is more important than preserving outdated wording simply because it appeared first.

The kit describes ski problems alongside the Amateur Ski GP result and an incident alongside the junior modified finish. Those are the limits of the supplied account; they do not establish a lap-by-lap explanation or justify a claim about where Parker would otherwise have finished. What we can say is that the documented outcome includes a junior podium and an Amateur Ski GP top-five result.

Parker’s story also extends beyond Havasu. His media kit describes his first race at Bayfair, his baseball background with RCB, the people who helped him enter jet ski racing, and Harry Goatcher’s guidance. It introduces his finished Factory Edition F16 and his move into the 2027 Team Goatcher Racing program. See Parker Toth for that story, his quote and the finished ski photographs. The F16 is part of the next chapter; its photographs do not establish which machine he used for every 2026 result.

Travis Billings: junior results across three entries

Travis “Turbo” Billings has three supplied World Finals finishes: third in Jr 10–12 4-Stroke Lites, third in Jr Lap Challenge, and fifth in Jr 10–12 2-Stroke Lites. Listing the classes separately preserves the detail and avoids treating different competitions as interchangeable. Two third-place results are a significant part of the team’s documented junior story.

His biography describes a young rider focused on training, learning and continuing to improve. That perspective fits a results page that celebrates achievement without turning every placing into a sweeping prediction. Travis Billings contains his supplied classes, background and highlights. Future ambitions are not a confirmed calendar, so this article does not attach invented dates to the events he hopes to race next.

Ryder, Jake, Bill and Ron: the rest of the supplied record

Ryder Bliss’s team-sheet entries are fourth in 1100 Modified and seventh in Sport Spec. Both appear in the recorded results, preserving the distinction between his two classes. Ryder Bliss introduces rider #492 and his place in the team. Fuller personal information and a confirmed portrait are still separate from the results already supplied.

Jake Venditto is listed ninth in Sport Spec. His own biography describes 2025 as his first closed-course racing year, a third-place regional season finish, and off-season training with Harry and his father. That background gives context to the rider’s development without changing the 2026 World Finals position. Read Jake Venditto for his account in the wider family racing story.

Bill Kuckert’s recorded result is sixth in Master Ski Stock, while Ron Benfield is listed seventh in Grand Master Ski Stock. These class names matter. Ron’s separately documented 2024 runner-up finish was in Master Ski Modified 1500; it must not be relabelled as a 2026 result or merged with this newer entry. Bill Kuckert and Ron Benfield have their individual backgrounds and result histories.

One team, beyond the finishing order

The team’s own words explain why a recap should include more than podiums: “We compete hard. We help each other. We celebrate each other’s wins. We learn from the tough weekends. And we keep showing up.” That statement leaves room for the rider chasing a title, the rider learning a new class, and the people supporting both from the pit.

“One team. One pit. One family.” The 2026 results span different ages and divisions, but they belong within that shared identity. Harry’s legacy and mentorship are part of the connection between established racers and the next generation. This is not a reason to invent a finish for every roster member. No 2026 World Finals result is supplied here for Harry or Tony Parker, so neither has been assigned one for completeness.

Taking the documented story into 2027

For potential partners, these results offer a concrete starting point: named riders, identified classes and a team whose individual stories can be explored in more depth. The partnership opportunity extends to ski and apparel branding, social promotion and race-related content, as outlined on Partner with Team Goatcher. It does not require fabricated audience totals or a promise that every rider will win.

Parker’s 2027 F16 program, the team’s combined roster and the supplied sponsor list make the next chapter tangible. Confirmed future dates belong in the calendar when available, rather than being inferred from past events. The Race calendar & results page brings the team’s recorded finishes together and also preserves separately sourced 2025 and IHRA standings. Those historical results remain useful, but this story is about the 2026 IJSBA World Finals and what the team has actually supplied about them.

Team Goatcher Racing. Together We Win.