that sucked. Villwock is an ass.

Loved Villwock in Pico's, and when he went to Bud, I totally didn't like him!

My favorite race ever!

I always hated it that a lot of the Seattle fans cheered against hometown boy Chip Hanauer.

I've was there that day!

That accident could have been so much worse.

It's really a shame that Steve Woomer never got a national championship.

I never have forgiven Dave Villwock for giving the finger to Fred Leland and taking the money Bernie Little waved at him to go drive for the Budweiser team. He was basically a Hydroplane whore.

The Lined Up starts were the worst idea in the history of hydroplane racing.

Chip is a great commentator! Calling it like it is. Thank you

Nate Brown and Mark Evan’s made racing and watching so much fun. Great personalities! 👊🏼

I saw John’s flip on the Columbia right in front of us. We were just walking into the track area to set up our spot

Kelly can not drive wow I hope he retired wow

I worked with Miss Madison from 1988 till 1992 in 1992 was the first year I got to travel with them and that was one of my best years lots of fun but it can be lots of work too the only reason I left is I got called back to work my regular job I had before when I got laid off and making four times five times the money. I would have loved to have stayed but I had to go to where the money was. Mark Tate was driving back in the day and now his son Andrew Tate is driving for Miss Madison racing which is sponsored by Goodman real estate now so now we have the boat to beat Mike Hanson was a good driver but we did not have that much of a boat back then because it had been through several accidents. If Miss Madison racing had a boat back then like they have today Mike would have won a lot of races

To the victor go the spoils. Really great to see him on the phone with his brother.

NO F N COMMENTS HERE EVERYONE 😳 veryone must be having TO MUCH FUN 😂 MEMORIES

This is much better than those old days now with the boring turbs

So sad. It ended Steve Reynolds career as a driver.

Bill muncey died in 1981.

Remember when the Seattle media cared about the hydroplane races. Now they only care about the blue angels and that's it.

Cool seeing piston boats on the water and the damaged Beacon Plumbing take the win. I wonder if the driver was aware of the missing parts. While I was watching the race and he didn't slow down I thought, yeah the boat is lighter now and obviously did little to change the way the boat flew or very little if so. I think the smaller GP hydros usually run without a rear wing so I wasn't too surprised when he kept standing on the throttle. Is this the same U - 37 hull that lost it's front left skid fin in 2010 and ran into a bulkhead? Same boat number and yellow paint but running turbine instead of piston power. If so the hull had been beat up pretty good I would say.

Old school bullshit rules

I was there that day.

2:04...14, today you're lucky if 5 show-up.

I was there in San diego for the flips it was intense to say the least... I've been going to Thunderboat races since I was little early 70's

i was a rescue diver on the Circus Circus on the double blowovwr with the Miss Madison. The Circus Circus was broken pretty much in half and was being held together by the deck friberglass. Other than being stunded and a couple bruses by what happened the driver was ok.

Use to work on the Miss U.S U-2 the Simon family 😎

R.I.P DAD (DOUG BROW)

that was too bad that the Squire had mechanical issues and Mickey could not hold on to win. I loved the Squire Shop team.

That tide boat had an awesome paint scheme

19:14 Mike Hansen, love ya, buddy. But you werent in Pasco last week, you were in Kennewick. You never raced in Pasco. No one has ever raced in Pasco.

Typical lousy, innacurate commentary by the TV crew. Not even getting walters identified!

Spectacular boats with a long history. If you remember Gar Wood in the 1930's, bandleader Guy Lombardo and his boat Tempo, Bill Muncey and Chip Hanauer...these are the legendary drivers of the past in the most beautiful form of motorsport...the Unlimited Hydroplanes!

It was too bad that Smokin Joe's could not hold on and win the High Points. That championship would never come to Steve Woomer.

Amazing deck to deck racing. RIP Bernie Little and wow Mark Tate, your son Andrew is filling in nicely and races as hard as you.

I miss Evansville. Uniquely shaped course with a tri-oval type of front stretch.

I was there

Love watching Mark floating on the LLumar cheering his brother Mitch on as he roars by.

Thanks for posting these old races! So many memories, hope H1 can one day return to glory with a full schedule and full pits!

I love listening to Bernie Little. He may have been known to be a demanding boss, but he was a cool dude!

Love u 🎉elena

Bernie little didn't start in unlimited hydroplanes till 63

I was there!!

I was there :)

Really miss Steve Woomer and his team.... RIP my friend. Too bad your boys at Competition Specialties didn't carry on in your honor. There is a part of me that is ticked that they didn't- it's about a legacy.

💋💋💋💋👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I'm guessing this was syndicated, but they're using the 1988 to early 1990 ESPN graphics.

Thank you.. now waiting to see 1997 next... Heck, im ready to continue on to the all the next season... 1st race to the last race...

It’s all about getting the skid fin set up correctly.

I was once told when these boats crash, that the drivers whole cockpit detaches like a pod to help save the driver. Was any of that true? Cause these videos dont seem to catch no pods flying away from the rest of the boats.