Coil Shooting for Rare Key West Trifecta – Speed on the Water
The driver for the defending world and national champion Super Cat M CON/Monster team, Super Stock Performance Boat Center team and Class 1 Monster Energy/M CON team, Myrick Coil will the busiest racer at Race World Offshore World Championships this week in Key West, Fla.. Coil, who is the service manager at Performance Boat Center at the Lake of the Ozarks in Central Missouri, will run nine races this week—three on Wednesday, three on Friday and three on Sunday. His days will start in the Class 1 boat catamaran with owner-throttleman Tyler Miller. He’ll get the next race off, but then will hope in the Performance Boat Center Super Stock cat with throttleman Rusty Williams.
Captured here during the 2023 Race World Offshore Key West World Championships during Sunday’s raceboat parade on Duval Street, Myrick Coil (left with Performance Boat Center cockpit-mate Rusty Williams) will have his work cut out for him in Key West this week. Photos by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix.
In the final race of each day, he’ll join up with Miller again in the Super Cat M CON/Monster Energy cat.
In the 42 years folks have raced offshore in Key West, it seems likely that someone else has run in three classes in one day. But records of such things are scarce to nonexistent, so at the very least Coil will be doing something rare
To be fair, during the 2021 American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series season-openr in Cocoa Beach, Fla., Brit Lilly joined Steve Curtis in the Class 1 Huski Chocolate boat, Jay Muller in the WHM Motorsports Super Cat and ran his own LSB/Hurricane of Awesomeness Mod V raceboat with Kevin Smith. Later that season in Sarasota, Fla., Vinnie Diorio ran in his SV Offshore Racing/Rolling Transport Super Cat with Simon Prevost, joined Loren Peters in LPC in Super Stock and Brian Forehand in Marker 17 Marker Marine in Mod V.
But big as their accomplishments were, Lilly and Diorio ran three races in one day. Coil will triple that achievement by the time this week is complete.
“He’s a glutton for punishment, that’s for sure,” Diorio said, the chuckled.
Coil is his usual low-key self about the coming races.
“It will be a few busy days,” he said. “t is not that hard when you already know the boats. People might think it’s weird, but the hardest one to drive is the Super Stock boat.
From Class 1 to Super Stock, Myrick Coil is in for some sweet rides on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
“The nice part about running multiple boats is that the boat you run first helps you with the other boats,” he continued. “I have my marks on the course already and the crew can make changes as far as props and weight.”
Coil paused for a moment, then laughed. “OK, I’m stressing a little bit,” he said “But we can get it done.”
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