The Top 5 Powerboat Races You Have Never Heard Of

[@Mint-Lynx]

Longtail boats might the coolest thing I learned about all week. Moving an entire engine and driveshaft by hand on a little wooden boat is straight out of some Southeast Asian Dieselpunk setting.

[@vehiculemagazine]

agree

[@waterworldofficial]

nice would love to see each part as a long format

[@vehiculemagazine]

coming soon!

[@Al_Nunnery]

My dad used to be friends with Eddie Hill.. maybe one day y'all can do a little show about Eddie Hill

[@quickdeuce]

Eddie and Ercie Hill were awesome competitors. What these Texan's brought to both drag and watersport racing was so very cool. Ercie was Eddie's #1 fan and was by his side until she passed 2021. Eddie is still with us at 88 years old.

[@JollyRoger907]

I appreciate you sharing the awesomeness of Jetsprint racing. However, you literally stole my content as well as that from Cleetus McFarland and other channels. I’m not going to report you because that’s not my style, but next time, have the common courtesy to reach out and ask or at the bare minimum tag or mention the channels you are stealing content from.

[@vehiculemagazine]

will add credit list and thx

[@vehiculemagazine]

credit added + card

[@vehiculemagazine]

dm'd you on insta

[@deadspyder]

In my opinion, if you make content for a public use site you shouldn't have a problem with fair use. He didn't steal your video he used it to highlight a particular form of racing a good example of fair use.

[@JollyRoger907]

⁠@@deadspyder KZbin isn’t a public use site, it’s a public viewing site. Everything uploaded is protected. Just like I can’t just record Metallica songs off KZbin and then use them in my videos. There strict rules against that! Or can I just say I used their music to enhance public knowledge about my sport? I’m not overly worried about it, that’s why I didn’t report it. But there should be a common courtesy when doing it, that’s all I asked for, they obliged, end of story, all is good in the world.

[@quickdeuce]

Well I'll be damned! @4:01 note the "HELL YEAH BROTHER" on the rear wing and @4:07 it is none other than Garrett Mitchell aka: Cleetus McFarland (look for it on Cleetus McFarland's KZbin channel) entered in his very first sprint boat race - he set a course record that day in (I think) Aberdeen, Washington. Before that weekend he had NEVER driven one of these type FAST boats before,, NEVER! It is a testament to this young man's incredible, natural,, uncanny skill driving just about anything with a means of steering.

[@everydayengineering817]

2:55 - How do they throttle these boats? I see 4 hands and I can't picture them using a floor pedal? Great video!

[@vehiculemagazine]

believe its a hot foot (foot pedal) thmarinesupplies.com/products/hot-foot-original-foot-throttle

[@thekingsilverado3266]

Contact Blade Man & Throttle. They got all the answers here.

[@Toddsnightmare]

Foot pedal

[@quickdeuce]

Of ALL the racing in water craft, IMHO these sprint boat races are the MOST incredible. Firstly it's the pilot must remember every turn, every point they must slightly LIFT in order to make a 90 degree turn and to handle the undoubtedly 800 - 1000 horsepower craft as masterfully as they must BLOWS MY MIND! 🙂

[@RenneeShreiner]

AMZING WEEKEND WATCH! LOVE THE NEW MEMBERS SECTION!

[@quickdeuce]

OMG!! Seeing those fuel boats LAUNCH COMPLETELY FROM THE WATER was absolutely incredible!! It's no wonder they can do that considering the power these engines produce but thinking all that power is directed to the water via a shaft and propellor can propel the water craft literally OUT of the water is nonetheless CRAZY to witness!!

[@jenniferryan7154]

200-400hp? Triple those numbers. Also, please site your video sources.

[@vehiculemagazine]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetsprint

[@quickdeuce]

Those long tail boats are just WOW!!

[@vehiculemagazine]

agreed

[@MrAirblown2009]

Homeboy has a turbo on that longtail boat. Can you imagine what a grasshopper in the face at that speed feels like ? Not a safety flotation vest to be found for 1000 miles. No helmets. Geeez guys.

[@vehiculemagazine]

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[@lelandlewis7207]

The drag boats weren't tunnel hulls, they were pickle-fork 3-point hydroplanes.

[@8180634]

At 4:07, it's Cleetus!

[@ronaldwarren1267]

The jet unit invented in new Zealand, and we have the best boats and pilots

[@vehiculemagazine]

wow

[@mbo191]

@4:07 - Cleetus McFarland!!!

[@Motoinc]

In the 80s they did this right STANDING

[@quickdeuce]

LOL,, as impressive as is the sight of those Thundercat boats craft at a 45 degree angle is,, surely their ET could be very much improved if they could keep the nose down. Cool sights tho!

[@Synergy7Studios]

Bro your business is utterly confusing to me but these videos are cool as hell so whatever. How do you make your voice sound like its from a 90s VHS?

[@vehiculemagazine]

we are not for everyone

[@afterdark6822]

Looks like we have some hot stuff going on. 🤣

[@vehiculemagazine]

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[@denniselvy3528]

Jet spint boats have up to 1000 hp

[@vehiculemagazine]

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[@throttledstockoutboardracing]

Great video but the whole last minute should be properly credited to Joe Miles. That’s his content filmed during Top O with his drones and a Go Pro on my boat.

[@vehiculemagazine]

Thanks for the info

[@Motoinc]

Who is this and what race?

[@DonJ.Terriffic-i3p]

HAS ANYONE SUGGESTED TO THE LONG TAIL DRIVERS? MAYBE A LIFE JACKET A HELMET, AND SOME CHAINMAIL.

[@vehiculemagazine]

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[@dougtilley5977]

Haaaaaaaaaaaa video time 10:24 , no helmets, no footwear, no safety gear at all,

[@vehiculemagazine]

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[@john-wk4ks]

click bait title The Top 5 Powerboat Races You Have Never Heard Of the people who enter these races have heard of them and the people who go to watch have heard of them and the people who watch video about these races have heard of them so what makes you think people havnt heard of them

[@vehiculemagazine]

🎓 high iq

[@OneEye.]

The word is Nitro meth ane and not nitro me thane.

[@vehiculemagazine]

Yes, "Nitromethane" and "Nitromethane" are the same thing; they are just different ways of saying the same chemical compound, with the exact same chemical formula: CH3NO2.

[@RenneeShreiner]

nope and nope.

[@thekingsilverado3266]

I think I saw Super Dave Osborne...

[@Al_Nunnery]

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