30th Annual Superboat International Key West World Offshore Chamapionships

Races started on Wednesday with warm sunny weather and a light Southeast breeze. 13 classes raced on Wednesday with the following results and a top speed of 118.1 mph posted by Cintron:
Superboat Unlimited-Cintron 
Superboat Vee Extreme-Boat Show Direct
Superboat Vee Unlimited-Outerlimits
750-WHM Motorsports
850-Team CRC
Super Cat-Stihl
Vee Limited-Sun Print
Stock-Talbot Racing
Production 1-Twisted Metal Racing
Production 2-Hawaiian Tropic
Production 3-Time Bandit
Production 4-Peters & May
Production 5-Rum Runners

Fridays Races had the following results with Team CMS posting a top speed of 122 mph:
Unlimited-Team CMS
Vee Extreme-2 Cocks Fighting Apperal
Vee Unlimited-Instigator
750-WHM Motorsports
850-Page Motorsports
Super Cat-Team Amsoil
Vee Limited-Sun Print
Stock-Mapei
Turbine-Aqua Mania
Production 1-Twisted Metal Motorsports
Production 2-Hawaiian Tropic
Production 3-J&S Motorsports
Production 4-Simmons Racing
Production 5-Team Velocity

As you can see there are a lot of classes which means a lot of action out on the course. There will be 3 final races held on Sunday with live webcasting starting at 9:45 AM via (http://superboat.com/live-tv/). Tune in to hear and see some great racing at an awesome venue.

30th Annual Key West SBI World Championships Day 2 & 3

Well it's now Thursday morning, and the effects of Duval Street are starting to take their toll, but I'm a sprite young lad and should make a full recovery quickly, I will keep you updated;)

Now onto racing Tuesday and Wednesday flew by with interviewing and photographing boats and team members. Wednesday was the first day of racing with three races taking place from 10AM until about 3PM. The weather was awesome, as may be expected in the Keys, sunny and warm with a steady breeze out of the Southeast. The race was great, luckily with no accidents, but quite a few boats dropping out due to mechanical problems. The race teams will have all day today to make any repairs and do any testing before the next race on Friday. I will post results and some more stories and info in my next post.

re: 30th Annual Key West SBI Offshore World Championships Day 1

The day started off dark and brisk as I was leaving work and driving to the Indianapolis Airport at 4AM Monday morning. Got to Atlanta and learned that my connecting flight to Key West had been canceled due to high winds. As luck would have it they had scheduled a flight on a smaller plane and I was able to get the last seat, Whooo. The weather in Key West was surprisingly similar to that in Central Indiana cloudy and cool, at least for Key West only 65!!! But I digress the Truman Annex is where it is always hot with about 40 boats in the pit area so far. About 40 more boats should be showing up today for the races which will be held on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. And as Day 1 in Key West ends I leave you with the famous sunset from Mallory Square.