Dave Scott may not be behind the wheel for his offshore racing team this year, but he was still extremely excited after his new Bud Light Offshore Racing team won the OSS Cat Extreme class at the season-opening Offshore Super Series race in Biloxi, Miss., in early April.
“This was a great start to the season,” Scott said, “I’m really happy with how the team got this boat ready for the first race. Johnny (Tomlinson) and Mike (Seebold) did a great job on such a fast race course for the first time in the boat together.”
Racing a 50-foot Mystic powered by a pair 1,500-horse power Sterling Performance engines; Tomlinson and Seebold posted the fastest speed on the course-194 mph.
The Bud Light boat wasn’t the only one to hit that top speed. Miss GEICO, a turbine-powered 44-foot MTI, actually hit that speed twice on all five laps en route to its OSS Turbine Extreme class victory.
The largest class of the race – OSS Vee Lite – featured competitive racing as Jim Natolie and Randy Schleuss in Typhoon edged out William Ros and Larry Fontecha in Wild Card. In OSS Cat Outboard action, Paul Whittier and Gary Ballough brought home the win in TNT Custom Marine while Peppers took the checkered flag in OSS Cat Lite with George and Mike Stancombe at the helm. Billy Mauff and Jay Muller won the OSS Cat Supercharged class in WHM Motorsports.
In other OSS news, the organization announced it received permission to use the Powerboat P1 series’ power-to-weight-ratio rules in the U.S.
P1 racing has certainly demonstrated that they have a formula that works for a variety of hull, power plant and drive designs,” said Ron Poli, president of OSS. “This is really a win-win situation for OSS and the racers who have existing canopied V-hull race boats. This new rules scenario allows for any engine manufacturer and any drive system, so it opens up OSS racing to a whole new category of racers.”
OSS expects to hold its first power-to-weight-ratio class race later this year. |
