The high-powered speedboat swept across Lake Havasu, Arizona, with its throttle getting harder until the ship reaches 200 mp.h. The ship then sucked into the air by its own aerodynamic design and flipped repeatedly before slamming back into the water.
The audience of Saturday’s Desert Storm Competition was stunned and silent, according to videos that were widely shared online and received by state media organizations. Shortly after the ship stood upright in the water, its driver and throttleman were not named, but were named after the race alias John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, who came out of the cockpit.
The driver’s rib fracture, the rib fracture, the throttle man’s kneecap fracture.
“Their injuries were minor, taking everything into consideration,” he said.
Mr Ola said they were kidding in the hospital even though their boat was 60 feet tall and flew about 1,000 feet in about five seconds.
“They said it happened so quickly that everything they remembered revolved around a little bit, popped out the hatch and got out of the car,” Ola said.
These people refused to be interviewed in their 50s.
Ray Lee, a publisher of Speedboat Magazine, said that in the United States, fans of Speedboat Racing have seen this acrobatic before, although perhaps not like this one. The video of the event was held on a windy day on the lake and was watched millions of views.
“The ship was hung in the air for longer than we’re used to,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “Others went up and flipped, down.”
Then what are your names? Is it spinning? Is it a bottle opener? Is it 360? Is it a somersault?
“It’s hard to say,” Mr. Li said. “Any adjective can work.”
Ola said the Freedom Group’s ship, known as the United States 1, was timed at a speed of 200.1 mph when the secondary speed radar ended at the end of the three-thirds of the mile route. But, as it continues to accelerate to 210 mph, wind gusts kick in, crashing the boat into the air, where it lands, spins and spins, and then lands on the finish line.
“Once they start to turn into kites like this,” Ola said. “This makes the ship’s aerodynamics against itself.”
“It’s a fierce scene for everyone involved because you really don’t know how it will turn out,” he said.
Speedboat racing in the United States has developed significantly since more than a century ago. In June 1904, the ray boat glided over the Hudson River in New York during an organized game at a local yacht club called the Gold Cup, which eventually led to the establishment of the American Powerboat Association.
“It was really slow at that time,” said Dana Potts, director of operations at the American Power Ship Association. “Two people were on the boat, and one shoveled the coal into the motor.” “It’s been a long way.”
Freedom One Racing Team said on Facebook that it has raised $20,000 from the event for its military and hospital charities. Speedboat Race Records records vary across the United States, depending on the length and layout of the courses selected by event organizers and the length and layout of the courses.
The American Powerboat Association, which campaigns with Lake Havasu, oversees activities between 5,000 members of 90 U.S. clubs. Potts said its fastest boat in one of the races was 140.3 miles per hour, set by a Super Cat, a catamaran.
According to the Guinness World Records, the world record for boat racing may still belong to Australia’s Ken Warby of Australia, who hit 317.58 mph in 1978 with a jet seaplane in Australia.
A speed boat from the Qatar team called “The Spirit of Qatar” was 244 miles per hour in 2014, but this was achieved in a one-mile course.
From the beginning, the Desert Storm Competition was challenging. Due to offseason, the water is slightly cooler than usual. Mr. Li said the wind gusts were positive enough to delay the start of about an hour to 11:30 a.m.
The high-performance 38-foot catamaran is built primarily from fiberglass and has two trailer racing engines, each with about 4,000 horsepower. The course is dotted with buoys, marking the beginning and end. The driver and the throttle man were tied into a multi-point wiring harness and helmet.
There is an escape hatch at the bottom in case the process is poured into the water.
As permitted by the rules, it enters the starting point of the race at about 40 miles per hour. Mr. Lee estimates that the wind is about 20 miles an hour. The boat’s unique shape means that its two external tracks create a tunnel between them.
“The air is loaded into that tunnel, essentially lifting the boat out of the water,” Mr. Li said.
With the increase of propellers and the construction of speed, the resistance in the water is getting smaller and smaller.
“Then the gusts of winds and everything immediately merged, causing the boat to lift and flip it,” Mr. Lee said. “It’s obviously spectacular.”
