Brit Lilly Back In The Class 1 Saddle With The XINSURANCE Team
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Maryland’s Brit Lilly will throttle the rebuilt XINSURANCE Class 1 raceboat alongside driver Randy Kent for the 2024 season. The team is owned by the Utah-based insurance giant’s Rick J. Lindsey.
The team announced the move today on its Facebook page.
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Brit Lilly is following in his father’s footsteps—while making some large shoe prints of his own. Photos courtesy/copyright Powerboat P1, Gary Stray, Pete Boden/Shoot 2 Thrill Pix, Brad DiMaggio/Scrapyard Media and Tim Sharkey/Sharkey Images.
“I’m pumped,” said Lilly, who also is the current driver for the Super Cat-class Dirty Money team owned by Beau and Tiffiney Renfroe. “And I’m getting my chance to show I can throttle as well.
“It’s been killing me not to say anything,” he added, then laughed.
Formerly the co-driver of the Class 1 Huski Chocolate team—he shared the roll with motorsports great Travis Pastrana—Lilly lost his dream ride when Huski exited Class 1 at the end of its 2023 championship series. (Veteran Class 1 throttleman Steve Curtis also found himself sidelined by the Huski move.) But the Dirty Money team was quick to pick up the talented driver. And now he’ll be pulling double-duty.
Brit Lilly is among offshore racing’s most compelling stars.
Lilly replaces outgoing XINSURANCE team throttleman Grant Bruggeman of Grant’s Signature Racing in Bradenton, Fla. Though the Pro Floors Racing/Valder Yachts team previously announced exit for the 2024 season means Bruggeman won’t reprise his Super Cat-class throttling/team manager role for the team, he does have another exclusive, yet-to-be-announced throttleman gig for the year.
The past two weeks have been particularly emotional for Lilly. His 77-year-old father, Art, a legendary offshore racing throttleman, died on February 29 after from Parkinson’s Disease. Yet despite the loss, his ever-positive son was able to find a bright spot.
“I was able to tell my dad before he passed that I had the job—and that I am following in his footsteps steps,” he said.
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Randy Kent and Brit Lilly will share the cockpit of the XINSURANCE raceboat this season.
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