When you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what safety drills are for.<\/p>\n
Mark Jakob, who lives near Kankakee, drives a Formula 2 Class powerboat. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 16-foot craft with a V6 engine that glides across the water at incredible speeds. Jakob said it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the competition that got him hooked to the sport in 2003.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not so much the speed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like anything you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to race, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re always wishing it would go faster,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the closeness of the competition and the way (the boats) take a corner.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what safety drills are for. Mark Jakob, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14925,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions\/14925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}