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Long Beach Sprint Nationals Long Beach Marine Stadium, K class race boat, Open cockpit K16 On the backstretch of the First lap of the Sunday Race, Jay had been side by side for the lead, tragically being caught in the wake of the other driver, Corkscrewing, and throwing him into the water at over 100 MPH, The event was later cancelled for ...
Long Beach Race Week is hosted by the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and the Long Beach Yacht Club. [3] is the Southern California Keel Boat championship that has ushered summer into Southern California for 35 years. By the end of 2018, The Americas Cup Committee accepted a second American challenge from Taylor Canfield and the LBYC,. [4]
Conner's $5 million 2002 entrant, Stars & Stripes USA-77, was sunk on July 23, 2002, when a rudder broke during preparations for the 2002–2003 races to select the challenger for the America's Cup. The boat was raised out of 55 feet (17 m) of water just outside Long Beach Harbor.
After missing one race, Jack Harvey will be back in the No. 45 Hy-Vee Honda for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.
There have been several versions of the Miss GEICO boat, including one of the fastest offshore powerboats in the world. The most powerful was a 50' Mystic powered by twin Lycoming T-53 turbine engines, reaching speeds exceeding 210 mph (340 km/h); which caught fire during testing on June 30, 2012, in Sarasota, Florida , and burned to the ...
The schoolgirl suffered fatal injuries after the rigid inflatable boat (Rib) she was riding in with her family on a high-speed excursion collided with a 4.5-metre high buoy at 36.6 knots in ...
The Long Beach Grand Prix in April is the single largest event in the city of Long Beach. Attendance for the weekend regularly reaches or exceeds 200,000 people. In 2006, the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame was created to honor selected past winners and key contributors to the sport of auto racing.
The APBA Gold Cup (originally known simply as the Gold Cup, a speedboat race) is an American hydroplane boat race, named for the American Power Boat Association. It is now run as part of the H1 Unlimited season. [1] First run in 1904, it is the oldest trophy in motorsports. [2]