U-7 wins 2009 Oryx Cup UIM World Championship, U-1 Team and Driver National High Points titles
U-7 wins 2009 Oryx Cup UIM World Championship, U-1 Team and Driver National High Points titles
Steve David's U-1 Oh Boy Oberto championship Unlimited Hydroplane will be the favorite to repeat as the circuit's champion in 2009. (Photo courtesy ABRA) (The Spokesman-Review)
Steve David captures driver's championship and with it retains the legendary U-1 status of his hydroplane heading into 2010.
Courtesy: ABRA Media Relations
J. Michael Kelly in the U-7 Graham Trucking won his first hydroplane
final in grand fashion, passing an ailing U-16 Ellstrom Elam Plus in
the final lap to win the inaugural Oryx Cup UIM World Championship.
Steve
David in the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto finished second giving him enough
points to lay claim to both the team and driver H1 Unlimited National
High Points Championship and retain the coveted U-1 designation for the
2010 season.
Villwock in the U-16 had engine difficulty after a
bumpy ride through the west turn on the second lap and the usually
strong charging orange and blue hull started to compression stall and
yellow flame came through the tailpipe. He managed to hold off Kelly
until the final lap.
The final heat was rerun after Jeff Bernard
in the U-5 Formulaboats.com flipped during in its initial running.
Bernard was talking with the media and the crowd in Doha and appears to
be fine.
