1951 Gold Cup Remembered (Source: HARM Collection) The Slo mo shun V makes its debut at the 1951 APBA Gold Cup held on Lake Washington. By Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The first West Coast Unlimited hydroplane race to…
Chip Hanauer overcame struggles early in the day to win his seventh race of 1993 during the 1993 Texaco Cup in Seattle, Washington on Lake Washington. Mark Tate’s attempt of a perfect weekend, ended with a spectacular blowover that ended…
Jones Launches Seattle Tradition By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman Engineer Ted Jones harbored a lot of creative (even radical) ideas about boat design, which spawned one of Seattle’s most storied traditions — unlimited hydroplane racing. Every summer thousands of…