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Dave Villwock in the U-1 Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss wins Heat 1B at Seafair.
NOTE: No audio play-by-play on this clip... not sure why.
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Dave Villwock in the U-1 Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss wins Heat 1B at Seafair.
NOTE: No audio play-by-play on this clip... not sure why.
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Steve David in the U-6 Oh Boy! Oberto / Miss Madison win Heat 1A.
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Here are the heat draws for 2A and 2B, which will be run at 10:40 and 10:55 p.m. (PDT) Sunday.
Heat 2A presented by 76 Quality PROclean gasoline
U-25 Miss Procraft Windows, Dr. Ken Muscatel
U-5 FormulaBoats.com, Jeff Bernard
U-50 Miss Albert Lee presents Spirit of the Navy, Brian Perkins
U-100 MirageBoats.com, Greg Hopp
U-6 Oh Boy! Oberto, Steve David
U-10 Hoss Mortgage Investors, David Bryant
Heat 2B presented by Tide
U-48 Albert Lee presents Lakeridge Paving, David Williams
U-7 FormulaBoats.com, Jimmy Shane
U-1 Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss, Dave Villwock
U-37 Miss Beacon Plumbing, Jean Theoret
U-13 Graham Trucking Spirit of Detroit, J. Michael Kelly
U-17 Our Gang Racing Team, Kip Brown
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Since there's nothing more regarding the unlimiteds on today's schedule, we're going to call it a day from the pits. We'll be back in the pits tomorrow by about 8 a.m.
The schedule for Sunday (all times PDT) is as follows:
8:30-9:30 a.m. - Unlimited hydroplane testing
10:40 a.m. - Unlimited hydroplane heat 2A presented by 76 Quality PROclean gasoline (U-25 Miss Procraft Windows; U-5 FormulaBoats.com; U-50 Miss Albert Lee presents Spirit of the Navy; U-100 MirageBoats.com; U-6 Oh Boy! Oberto; U-10 Hoss Mortgage Investors)
10:55 a.m. - Unlimited hydroplane heat 2B presented by Tide (U-48 Albert Lee presents Lakeridge Paving; U-7 FormulaBoats.com; U-1 Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss; U-37 Miss Beacon Plumbing; U-13 Graham Trucking Spirit of Detroit; U-17 Our Gang Racing Team.
12:15 p.m. - Unlimited hydroplane heat 3A
12:35 p.m. - Unlimited hydroplane heat 3B
2:30 p.m. - Unlimited hydroplane provisional final
4:45 p.m. - Unlimited hydroplane Chevrolet Cup final
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Understandibly, the U-3 Hoss Mortgage Investors Too team is disappointed in the fact that all three motors have blown, and they're back to the drawing board once the boat returns to Indiana.
(We also did an interview with J. Michael Kelly, but the video equipment had some technical difficulties, so we lost the interview. We'll try again tomorrow).
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2008 Chevrolet Cup at Seafair -- Miss Beacon Plumbing the boat to beat? >>
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"We broke a bottom end of the engine yesterday, and broke two today," U-3 owner Ed Cooper told Brad Luce on KPTK radio after the boat went dead in Heat 1A at Seafair. "It's been a run of bad luck. I hate saying that, but I don't know what else to call it," he said.
Cooper said that in qualifying the boat was on its way to its fastest lap ever in Seattle when they lost the engine on Friday.
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Probably the best race of the day came down to a two-boat dual between Jean Theoret in the U-37 and David Bryant in the U-10.
Theoret started in lane 1, with Bryant just to his outside. Through the first two laps, Bryant stayed right with the Miss Beacon Plumbing despite the shorter course that the U-37 had. Theoret pulled away at the end of the front straightway at the beginning of lap number three, and was able to put Bryant on his hip and push him to the outside just enough to gain nearly a full-roostertail advantage out of the turn, and use that to gain a heat victory in 1C.
For the first lap, there was also a race for third and fourth, while Jimmy Shane and David Williams went deck-to-deck before Shane was able to pull away and easily take third place.
1. U-37 Miss Beacon Plumbing, Jean Theoret
2. U-10 Hoss Mortgage Investors, David Bryant
3. U-7 FormulaBoats.com, Jimmy Shane
4. U-48 Albert Lee presents Lakeridge Paving, David Williams
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Five to the five for heat 1C, which will start at 3:25 p.m. (PDT)
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Not really much of a surprise in the winner of this heat, as the U-1 Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss ran away from the rest of the fleet.
But the start was great. Greg Hopp had lane 1 with the U-100 MirageBoats.com, Dave Villwock in lane 2 and Ken Muscatel in lane 3 driving the Miss Procraft Windows. Brian Perkins was a little bit back in the U-50 Miss Albert Lee presents Spirit of the Navy.
Hopp led the fleet through the first turn on lap one with Muscatel in second place. Villwock, though, didn't take long to bolt into first place, jumping out of the tunnel at the exit pin. After that the best racing came as Perkins picked off Muscatel to move into third place, then pursued Hopp for two laps. At the finish, Hopp held off Perkins by a couple of boat lengths to take second.
1. U-1 Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss, Dave Villwock
2. U-100 MirageBoats.com, Greg Hopp
3. U-50 Miss Albert Lee presents Spirit of the Navy, Brian Perkins
4. U-25 Miss Procraft Windows, Dr. Ken Muscatel
(results are unofficial until ABRA verifies them)
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Great first lap to this heat, but it quickly turned into a parade with Steve David as the grand marshall.
Jeff Bernard led the fleet across the start finish line in lane two and tried to hold David to the buoys, but the Oberto had too much speed in the back chute, and pulled away just before reaching the north turn.
Once David got his commanding lead, Bernard settled back in to second place to save equipment, as did J. Michael Kelly in the U-13.
We lost the U-3 Hoss Mortgage Investors Too in the north turn just at the end of the first lap. Might be the end of their weekend as the boat flashed a yellow light and went dead in the water. It was the last engine that was available to the team.
Final results (unofficial)
1. U-6 Oh Boy! Oberto, Steve David
2. U-5 FormulaBoats.com, Jeff Bernard
3. U13 Graham Trucking, J. Michael Kelly
4. U-17 Our Gang Racing Team, Kip Brown
DNF U-3 Hoss Mortgage Investors Too, Jimmy King
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We're now on the clock for five to the five.
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Well...as soon as we posted that we were at five to the five, the ABRA decides to go on a five minute hold for the start of Heat 1A, due to a delay of a crane operator getting to the U-3 and U-5 in time to get both boats in the water.
We're currently holding to go to the official five-to-the five in about one more minute.
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Here are the heat draws for this afternoon's round of unlimited racing on Lake Washington.
Heat 1A
U-17 Our Gang Racing Team, Kip Brown
U-13 Graham Trucking, J. Michael Kelly
U-3 Hoss Mortgage Investors Too, Jimmy King
U-5 FormulaBoats.com, Jeff Bernard
U-6 Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison, Steve David
Heat 1B
U-100 MirageBoats.com, Greg Hopp
U-1 Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss, Dave Villwock
U-25 Miss Procraft Windows, Dr. Ken Muscatel
U-50 Miss Albert Lee presents Spirit of the Navy, Brian Perkins
Heat 1C
U-37 Miss Beacon Plumbing, Jean Theoret
U-10 Hoss Mortgage Investors, David Bryant
U-48 Albert Lee presents Lakeridge Paving, David Williams
U-U-7 FormulaBoats.com, Jimmy Shane
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Nearly everyone in the pits is taking a good lunch break today, with a few exceptions. Here's an update at the midway-point of Saturday's action.
U-1 - The Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss boat appears to be ready for this afternoon's heats. There's a decent crowd of fans around the Ellstrom pits checking out the U-1 merchandise that's offered for sale.
U-3 - The last motor available to the team is now in the boat. Crew member John Walcker said the waste gate stuck open the last time the boat was out running, and the boost was stuck at 80. Walcker said there was a lot of horsepower for awhile, and the engine blew. The team did put the last available turbo Allison into the boat, and is asking that fans simply root for them to be able to start and finish heats without destroying any more motors.
U-5 - There's not a sole around the U-5 FormulaBoats.com in its pit area right now. Occasionally, we'll see some fans invited up on deck to sit in the cockpit, or have a picture taken. But all-in-all, it looks like the team is set for the heat racing later today.
U-6 - Calm is also the order in the Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison pits, as the team and its supporters have a chance to take in the air show.
U-7 - The second FormulaBoats.com entry is one of the active hotspots in the pits, where the crew continues to try and find more speed for Jimmy Shane. Both Mike Allen -- two broken ribs and all -- and Jim Harvey are helping out.
U-10 - The cowling is on the U-10 Hoss Mortgage Investors hull, and things seem to be pretty quiet in their pits. Looks like there may be a little bit of adjustment type work going on in the cockpit.
U-13 - There is a little bit of activity in the U-13 Graham Trucking presents Spirit of Detroit pit, as the team is working on fine-tuning. They're down to one engine and one prop for the rest of the weekend. Other teams have offered props, if the U-13 needs one. The team, of course, is hoping they won't need one.
U-17 - Over at the Our Gang Racing Team pit area, the team appears to be making adjustments to the motor, likely trying to find a little more speed for Kip Brown as the boat moves into competitive heats this afternoon.
U-25 - The Miss Procraft Windows team his working hard to get Dr. Ken Muscatel a better ride. Dr. Ken is quoted on the ABRA website as saying, "The boat is running too light. It gets aired out when I'm only one-fourth of the way down the chute. I'm losing at least ten miles per hour because I can't keep my foot in it. The ride is good, but it's just too light. We've tried changing the wing, we've added weight to the front, and I'm using the canard as much as I can, but nothing seems to help."
As a result, the team is currently making changes to the adjustable surfaces of the boat. They've already made a rather significant changes to the canard to give Muscatel more downforce with the canard. The team has also added weight to the right front of the boat by installing sandbags. Lastly, the team is changing the "bras" on the bow blocks of the boat to try and pack less air under the hull.
U-37 - Judging by the lack of serious activity in the Miss Beacon Plumbing pits and the successful qualifying speeds earlier today, this team seems ready for this afternoon's heat racing.
U-48 - The Albert Lee presents Lakeridge Paving was unable to make it back to the pits under its own power when out for its last test session of the morning. The problem? The boat ran out of fuel. "We're doing our part to conserve fuel," said crew member Patrick Gleason. In all seriousness, Gleason said, the team decided it didn't need to run a full 60 gallons aboard the boat, with the design of controlling the weight of the boat.
"We're really pleased though," Gleason added, "we're within just a little bit of the other boat (the U-50 Miss Albert Lee), and we feel good about that."
U-50 - Quiet in the pits as the team just makes sure they're ready for the first heats of the day.
U-100 - There was virtually no one in the U-100 pits when we made our pass through, looking for stories to report, so all must be good with them...and they must be ready to race.
U-787 - Not sure if we're through seeing the U-787 Boeing presents Salute to Seafair on the water for today or not, but it did qualify for the race at over 147 mph, making the Boeing executives on site very happy.
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Heat draws for 1A, 1B, and 1C have not been announced as of yet. We'll post them as soon as we find out what they are.
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KPTK Radio in Seattle is streaming right now and will be on the air for the rest of Saturday's action.
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U-1 Ellstrom Elam Plus presents Amos W. Hoss
Dave Villwock
155.857
U-5 FormulaBoats.com
Jeff Bernard
154.615
U-6 Oh Boy! Oberto
Steve David
152.94
U-10 Hoss Mortgage Investors
David Bryant
152.807
U-37 Beacon Plumbing
Jean Theoret
152.419
U-13 Graham Trucking
J. Michael Kelly
148.545
U-787 Boeing
Chip Hanauer
147.631
U-3 Hoss Mortgage Investors Too
Jimmy King
147.299
U-17 Our Gang Racing
Kip Brown
144.224
U-50 Miss Albert Lee
Brian Perkins
141.975
U-48 Albert Lee presents Miss Lakeridge Paving
David Williams
140.312
U-100 Mirageboats.com
Greg Hopp
139.524
U-25 Miss Procraft Windows
Ken Muscatel
138.744
U-7 Formulaboats.com
Jimmy Shane
132.43
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Well, the Saturday morning session is over, so it's time for us to make a pass through the pits to see what we can find out from various teams and see what they think of their testing and how things went.
We will also check in with the U-48 and U-3 teams to see their status after both were brought back to the pits on tow ropes.
And, of course, it's almost lunch time. We'll get back to you soon.
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Jeff Bernard is running the U-5 FormulaBoats.com around the course right now, and has been joined by Jean Theoret in the U-37 Miss Beacon Plumbing.
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Steve David is making a very slow run down the front straightaway, must be simulating a start. He's picked it up on the backstretch.
Lap 1 - Couldn't hear the announcement because of the loud UL trailer firing next to us, but it looked fast.
Lap 2 - 149.346
Lap 3 - 151.489
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Brian Perkins just entered the course with the U-50 Miss Albert Lee presents Spirit of the Navy for the second time this morning.
Lap 1 - 141.556
Lap 2 - no speed reported by ABRA
Lap 3 - no speed reported by ABRA
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Kip Brown is currently spooling up the U-17 and taking it out to the course for his second run of the morning.
Lap 1 - 142.171
Lap 2 - 117-plus (Kip ran a simulated start and a quick timing run)
Lap 3 - 112.642 (another simulated start and timing run)
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JW Meyers is going for a run in Fred Leland's U-100 MirageBoats.com, normally driven by Greg Hopp.
Lap 1 - 132.018
Lap 2 - 133.712
Lap 3 - no lap time reported for the third lap, and J-dub is returning to the pits.
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The bright orange U-1 Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss, driven by Dave Villwock, is back on the course.
Lap 1 - 151.777
Lap 2 - 154.281
Lap 3 - 155.857 (fastest lap of the weekend)
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While they tow the U-48 Albert Lee presents Lakeridge Paving back to the pits, we can look around and see that:
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Here are some photos from this morning's session. Thanks to Ryan from ABRA for lending us his card reader so we can post decent photos from our good camera. Thanks to Dawn for the photography.
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David Williams is out for a second time today in the Albert Lee presents Lakeridge Paving.
Lap 1 - 135.168
Lap 2 - 140.312 (his fastest lap of the weekend)
Lap 3 - did not complete.
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Jean Theoret and the U-37 Miss Beacon Plumbing is now on the water.
Lap 1 - 148.668
Lap 2 - missed the speed announcement
Lap 3 - 151.457
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Greg Hopp has Fred Leland's red, white and blue U-100 MirageBoats.com back on the water for the first time today.
Lap 1 - 136.822
Lap 2 - 139.524
Lap 3 - did not complete the lap and returned to the pits
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Jimmy Shane is out in the U-7 right now, for the first time today.
Lap 1 - 130.175
Lap 2 - 132.430
Lap 3 - 131.149
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David Bryant in the U-10 is on the course right now, working on a simulated start timing run.
Lap 1 - 149.284
Lap 2 - 151.841
Lap 3 - 152.451
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National high points leader, and defending Chevrolet Cup winner, Steve David is on the course again right now.
Lap 1 - 150.316
Lap 2 - 152.290
Lap 3 - 149.408
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Here's the U-13 Graham Trucking presents Spirit of Detroit for the first time this morning.
Lap 1 - 145.834
Lap 2 - 148.056
Lap 3 - 148.545 (his fastest time of the weekend)
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Kip Brown is out with the U-17 Our Gang Racing Team hull right now.
Lap 1 - 140.586
Lap 2 - 144.224 (his fastest time of the weekend)
Lap 3 - 106-plus on a timing run
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The U-50 Miss Albert Lee presents Spirit of the Navy is now on the race course.
Lap 1 - 141.975
Lap 2 - returned to the pits
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Jeff Bernard is now on the course.
Lap 1 - 151.585
Lap 2 - 153.987 (his fastest of the weekend)
Lap 3 - 154.615 (his fastest of the weekend)
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Chip Hanauer is now out in the U-787 Boeing presents Spirit of Seafair, making another qualification run. The boat will only do exhibition runs and qualifying runs for Seafair this weekend. They're doing testing for Boeing and for Ellstrom.
Lap 1 - 141.251
Lap 2 - 146.160
Lap 3 - 147.631
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Dr. Ken Muscatel is out with the U-25 Miss Procraft Windows this morning. It's good to see him out in the boat, getting some testing time this weekend. It's the first extensive testing the team has had this season.
Lap 1 - 132.503
Lap 2 - 138.688
Lap 3 - 138.744 (his fastest time of the weekend)
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Jimmy King has the U-3 Hoss Mortgage Investors Too. is on the course now.
Lap 1 - no time recorded
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David Williams is on the water with the U-48 Albert Lee presents Lakeridge Paving.
Lap 1 - 133.037
Lap 2 - 116.792
Lap 3 - not announced, but Williams was on a timing run
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David Bryant has the U-10 Hoss Mortgage Investors on the course now.
Lap 1 - 152.807
Lap 2 - 148.426
Lap 3 - 152.581
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Here comes Jean Theoret in the U-37 Miss Beacon Plumbing.
Lap 1 - 151.171
Lap 2 - 152.419
Lap 3 - no time announced
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Dave Villwock has the U-1 Ellstrom presents Amos W. Hoss out on the Ted Jones Memorial race course now.
Lap 1 - 152.581
Lap 2 - 154.119 (fastest lap of the weekend so far)
Lap 3 - 155.249 (fastest lap of the weekend so far)
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First unlimited on the water this morning is the U-6 Oh Boy! Oberto, driven by Steve David.
Lap 1 - 151.937
Lap 2 - 152.940
Lap 3 - 151.745
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Welcome everyone, to the Stan Sayres pits along the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle, Washington.
It's Saturday morning, and we're greeted on the pit tower by lots less wind than yesterday, though there's still a slight breeze...but nothing like yesterday's. The skies are cloudy and there's a slight chance of a sprinkle or two this morning, but the skies are expected to clear up by this afternoon. Pretty typical for race weekend in Seattle.
As the unlimited lights make their way to the water for the first testing session of the day (8:30-9:30), we'll share today's schedule for the unlimiteds, and then go see what we can find out in the pits.
All times are Pacific Daylight Time
9:30 a.m. - Unlimited hydroplane testing
11:15 a.m. - Unlimited hydroplane qualifying
2:45 p.m. - Unlimited hydroplane heat 1A presented by Graham Trucking
3 p.m. - Unlimited hydroplane heat 1B presented by KeyBank
3:15 p.m. - Unlimited hydroplane heat 1C
6 p.m. - Ted Jones Memorial Race Course closes
In terms of hydroplane racing, today's schedule is pretty heavy with the unlimited lights, as they will be running heats 1A, and 1B as well as 2A and 2B today.
As we take a quick glance around the pits, we can see that the U-10 and U-1 are on their slings already. The Elam is being put into the water -- but the course is not open to the unlimiteds until 9:30 a.m., which is still 40 minutes away as we write this.
The U-3 pit is pretty quiet, they're trailer firing a turbine on the U-5, and it looks like the U-7, U-17, and U-787 are all ready to go.
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