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In an email sent today, World Powerboat Racing Association president Jeff Harris confirmed that 2025 Pro Class 1 National Champion is the XINSURANCE South team. Thanks to a tie for points between the XINSURANCE South and Monster Energy/M CON teams, the matter has been hotly…
The co-star of the viral Howe2Live YouTube channel, Michael Howe loves a challenge. So, too, does Cade Wilson, a seasoned automobile racer, who purchased Sterling Engines in Milford, Mich., earlier this year. Now the two entrepreneurs are teaming up on a Super Cat-class offshore racing…
What makes Bracket 700-class offshore racing fun to watch is a simple matter of scale. At just 20 to 22 feet long, Bracket 700-class raceboats are the smallest vessels on the course. Yet despite their diminutive size, the open-cockpit, single outboard-engine-powered V-bottoms have to a…
Announced in a press release today, Englewood Beach, Fla., has set its 2026 offshore racing dates for October 8-11. The venue hosted the American Power Boat Association National Championships and Union Internationale Motonautique World Championships last month. The dates are connected, of course, with those…
No matter how much branded merchandise you sell as an offshore racing team, you’ll never come close to covering your season costs. And that maxim holds true from the Pro Class 1 to Bracket 700 categories. It’s an expensive sport. Gear sales are not a…
When the green flag waved for the Pro Class 1 race at the 44th annual Race World Offshore world championships on Sunday, Nov. 9, throttleman Billy Moore and driver Mike Falco shot to the lead in their 48-foot Victory, DeFalco Construction. When the Super Cat…
On Friday, Nov. 7, the weather forecast was for weaker winds and smaller wave heights in the waters off the coast of Key West, Fla., where the 44th Annual Race World Offshore world championships are being held. The second of three race days appeared that…
With an historic 98 boats registered to race at the Race World Offshore 44th Annual Offshore World Championships Nov. 2-9 in Key West, Fla., it would be easy for fans to get caught up in the excitement of a hot rivalry or the return of…
Not since the early 2000s has there been a more eagerly awaited Key West World Championships. The fractured regular season led to pent-up fan and racer demand for apolitical competition, and Key West has a way of attracting big fleets no matter how poorly the…
With one freshwater test-session on a Central Florida Lake a few weeks ago under their belts, throttleman Steve Curtis and driver Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani of Qatar will take to saltwater for the first time today in Key West, Fla., in their 54-foot MTI…
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