Even most casual fans of the MTI brand know company founder Randy Scism gained extensive Union Internationale Motonautique Class 1 experience—as a driver and team manager—with the Dubai-backed Victory outfit in the 1980s and 1990s. But his own Wentzville, Mo.-built 48-foot catamaran model didn’t claim Class 1 world titles of its own until November 2015 […]
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Though both would downplay the description as is their humble nature, Travis Pastrana and John Tomlinson are the GOAT—Greatest Of All Time—of their respective motorsports disciplines. A South Florida native, Tomlinson is one of the winningest world champion catamaran throttleman in offshore powerboat racing with more than such titles to his credit. His accomplishments include […]
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From a visual perspective, the start tends to be the most spectacular element of any offshore powerboat race. That’s no dig on the sport—not even even close—but you’ll never find so many boats running deck-to-deck and heading toward a turn than you will when the green flag flies. Captured from the air, water or land, […]
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Though the Sarasota Power Boat Grand Prix and Suncoast Charities for Children—the Southwest Florida event’s former longstanding beneficiary—amicably parted ways a couple of years ago, the two are forever linked by history. Sarasota remains a high-performance powerboating hotbed and the supporting the nonprofit charity is woven into that legacy, as well as the fabric of […]
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When the Class 1 Offshore World Championship Series kicks off in Cocoa Beach, Fla., May 18-21, event producer Powerboat P1 will have a new team in the livestream broadcast booth. Veteran offshore racers Marc Granet and Mike Yowaiski will be joining speedonthewater.com founder and co-publisher Matt Trulio for the Thunder On Cocoa Beach broadcast as […]
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Heading into its second season as the primary sponsor of the Super Stock-class Ignite offshore racing team, CELSIUS® energy drink is making the most of its opportunity to showcase what the publicly traded company bills as “a better-for-you alternative to other high-sugar energy drinks on the market.” The team’s 32-foot Doug Wright Powerboats catamaran will […]
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Though the 151 Express team owner Jorge Arellano, a significant booster of offshore racing’s Mod V class who typically likes to keep his name out of the media, reportedly hasn’t made a “final decision” on whether Nick Imprescia and Ian Morgan will reprise their roles as Mod V-class racers this season, smart money says they’ll […]
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Taking nothing for granted, defending 450R Factory Stock-class world and national champions Taylor Scism and John Tomlinson of the TS Motorsports team recently capped two months of testing and practice in advance of the season-opening 7 Mile Grand Prix, April 28-30, in Marathon, Fla. Most recently—as in the last week—Scism and Tomlinson completed a 25-lap […]
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As an offshore powerboat racing breed, turbine engine-powered catamarans never took off. No reasonable fan with even marginal recall will disagree. Limited appeal, costs and complexities of ownership and more kept turbine raceboats mostly an oddity. A strong turnout at any given race was two boats. Entertaining while it lasted, the turbine engine-powered Miss GEICO […]
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With eight teams representing countries including Australia, Norway, Sweden and the United States expected to compete this season, Powerboat P1 has released its race-schedule for the 2023 Class 1 Union Internationale Motonautique World Championship Series. The new was announced this morning in a press release from Powerboat P1, which is based in the United Kingdom […]
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With 15 teams committed to running at least some portion of the seven-race 2023 Super Stock-class owners group internal schedule, fans of the outboard-engine-powered spec catamaran category will not want for offshore racing action this season. The group released its schedule this afternoon via social media, and it includes the following dates and events, five […]
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<!– People: Cheer Leader: Travis Pastrana Goes All In With Class 1 –> What is Travis Pastrana doing here? The action sports God landed the first double backflip in a motorsports competition, has broken several of Evel Knievel’s records and is a world freestyle champion, yet here he is at, of all things, a cheerleading […]
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<!– Racing: CMR Finishes ‘New’ Super Stock-Class MTI In Time For Key West –> Rigging and dialing in three different raceboats this season was definitely not what Super Stock-class teammates Sean Conner and Shaun Torrente had in mind when they joined forces to race together with backing from CMR Construction and Roofing. Yet that’s what […]
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Though the first Race World Offshore-produced event of the 2022 season is called the Baystar Clearwater ‘Nationals’ per longstanding tradition, the September 23-25 event in the Southwest Florida actually is the penultimate contest in the eight-race American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series and the fifth of eight races in the concurrent Class 1 […]
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In a welcome change of plans for offshore powerboat racing fans, today’s Mod V, Stock V and Bracket-class racing and pole-position qualifying rounds at the St. Petersburg Grand Prix in Southwest Florida will be streamed live on the P1 Offshore website and Facebook page. Led by veteran broadcaster and former offshore racer Mike Yowaiski, racing […]
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Offshore racing fans hoping to catch the debut of the new Class 1 Team Defalco outfit and the return of Dramatized Offshore Racing to the Super Cat ranks in this weekend’s St. Petersburg Grand Prix in Southwest Florida will have to wait a bit longer. Those teams, plus two in the Super Stock class, have […]
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Set for Saturday, September 17, the “Last Call Before Fall Fun Run” presented by Suntex Marinas is the final event of Suncoast Summer Fest in Sarasota, Fla., which raises money for Suncoast Charities for Children. Vessels of all shapes and sizes, from personal watercraft to high-performance catamaran, center consoles and V-bottoms. Vessels of all kinds […]
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The next round of offshore racing action takes place over Labor Day weekend, September 3-4, as P1 Offshore presents the Powerboat Grand Prix in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. All classes of offshore race teams will be competing, as well as the AquaX personal watercraft racing series, and promises to be an exciting two days of […]
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