Heading into the 2023 season, spec-class offshore powerboat racing is in its best shape in decades. The Super Cat fleet has 10 teams committed. Super Stock has something in the neighborhood of a dozen teams eager to compete. The Mod V class has mostly absorbed—at last—the Stock V class and now the category has critical […]
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A little more than a year ago when Maryland-based offshore powerboat racer Brit Lilly of LSB Sportboats began building a 29-foot canopied raceboat for his friend and fellow competitor Kyle Miller of the Speed Marine team, the finished product was slated for Stock V competition. But thanks to a seismic shift in the offshore racing […]
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Though I’m technically “retired” from offshore racing, I’m still as passionate as I’ve ever been about high-performance powerboats, especially of the Cigarette Racing Team kind. My 1988 Cigarette 38 Top Gun raceboat carried the Old School team to back-to-back world championships in the Bracket 400 class, one from the Offshore Powerboat Association and one from […]
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<!– Racing: Englewood Beach Waterfest Organizer’s Launch ‘Racing To Recovery’ Initiative –> With their decision to move ahead with the Englewood Beach Waterfest/Offshore Powerboat Association World Championships (November 17-20) in Southwest Florida made earlier this week, organizers of the event are wrapping up details on a community-wide campaign dubbed “Racing to Recovery.” The initiative is […]
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<!– Uncategorized: Wyatt And Granet In For Class 1 St. Pete Grand Prix Debut With df Young Mystic –> When the green flag flies at the St. Petersburg Grand Prix, the fourth contest in the eight-race P1 Offshore-produced Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 World Championship Series and the sixth of eight races in the American […]
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<!– Racing: CMR Roofing Set To Race Former CR Racing Super Stock Boat In St. Clair And Michigan City –> There’s no doubt offshore racers Sean Conner and Shaun Torrente are living by the “where there’s a will there’s a way” motto this season. After the teammates behind the CMR Construction and Roofing Super Stock-class […]
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The Sarasota Offshore Grand Prix wrapped up prematurely, when the final race of the weekend—featuring a field of 10 Super Stock entries—suffered three separate accidents, leading to officials calling an end to the competition. (None of the racers involved were seriously injured.) The field of 10 first narrowed to nine when driver Cole Leibel and […]
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