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25
Jun

Video Powerboat – 2009 V-Drive Regatta

Video Powerboat – 2009 V-Drive Regatta – Behind the scenes at the 2009 V-Drive Regatta, held Father’s Day Weekend (June 19-21) at Irvine Lake, California. Produced by Performance Boats Magazine.

19
Jun

Offshore Powerboat Racing – FOLLOW THE HISTORIC “TURKISH GRAND PRIX OF THE SEA” ON P1 RADIO

The Powerboat P1 World Championship makes history this weekend with the first-ever Turkish Grand Prix of the Sea racing on the Bosphorus River in the heart of Istanbul and race fans worldwide will be following the action through Powerboat P1 Radio (www.p1radio.com). The US manufacturers will be represented in the Evolution Class by Fountain which is racing under a Belgian flag, taking on the Italian Cigarette Racing Team and the Outerlimits American and Italian teams—as well as the Buzzi and Metamarine Italian-built boats and the German Searex. In SuperSport, U.S. boat builders Donzi and Nor-Tech will face the Maltese Chaudron and Blu Shaft boats.

The second stop of the 2009 season is historic, in part because the Bosphorus, a major shipping channel is being closed for the first time in seven centuries—an amazing feat accomplished by the Powerboat P1 management. The Bosphorus River, also known as the Istanbul Straits, splits the European and Asian sides of Turkey and via the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and another strait it eventually leads to the Mediterranean. It is the narrowest waterway used for international navigation and should provide for some interesting and unique racing. The flat water may …  Details

18
Jun

Powerboat Racing – Powerboats make waves as Steamboat Sports Festival revs up

When you’re driving a 16-foot boat 115 miles per hour with the river as your race course, there are bound to be times when you end up upside down, underwater and strapped into a small cockpit. That would most certainly incite panic in many people, but that’s what safety drills are for.

Mark Jakob, who lives near Kankakee, drives a Formula 2 Class powerboat. It’s a 16-foot craft with a V6 engine that glides across the water at incredible speeds. Jakob said it’s the competition that got him hooked to the sport in 2003.

“It’s not so much the speed — it’s like anything you’re trying to race, you’re always wishing it would go faster,” he said. “It’s the closeness of the competition and the way (the boats) take a corner.”…  Details

17
Jun

Offshore Powerboat Racing – Inter-city powerboat records ‘up for grabs’

stephanAustralia’s flamboyant ‘hairdresser to the stars’ Steve ‘Stefan’ Ackerie has shelved plans to return to offshore racing for the moment, but next year intends to make an all-out assault on a variety of inter-city powerboat speed records.

Commercial fisherman and former abalone diver, Gunther Pfrengle, currently holds five inter-city records recognised by the Australian Powerboat Association (APBA).

Ackerie, who has held several inter-city speed records, including the marathon Cairns-Brisbane, said he was prepared to put up ‘$1 million-plus’ to chase some of the records.

His ‘assault’ will take place next year.

‘I have to get the boat ready and … Details

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