Another returning event, Hydros for Heroes, also has a Dutch connection. The city’s history with hydroplane races goes back to the 1960s when Oak Harbor native named Tom Foresman and his friends built ...

Lancashire-based aerospace engineering leader Airframe Designs has become a key partner on an ambitious project to break the ...

Jimmy Shane’s short retirement came to an end Tuesday. The seven-time national champion is returning to unlimited hydroplane racing, the H1 Unlimited Racing Series announced. Shane retired a month ...

Points leader Andrew Tate and the U-91 slightly strengthened their bid for the Unlimited Hydroplane season championship Friday by posting the fastest qualifying lap on Mission Bay for Sunday’s season ...

Driver Chuck Thompson of Detroit, Mich., guides his unlimited hydroplane Tahoe Miss thru the towering “roostertail” of water left by other riders to win the Governor’s Cup Race on Sept. 5, 1965 in ...

The world’s fastest racing boats are the unlimited hydroplanes. As much airplane as boat, they are bellowing giants powered by World War II fighter-plane engines, ride on two hand-size patches of hull ...

The H1 Unlimited Racing Series finally got in a clean race. Sort of. Dave Villwock in the U-27 Miss Apollo won the Gold Cup in the Tri-Cities last weekend, the first time this season when weather didn ...

In 1979, a four-year-old Jimmie Johnson got a chance to sit on the deck of one of the most storied Unlimited hydroplanes of all time. On Friday, the former NASCAR champion will get a chance to ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – An Evansville icon is returning to hydroplane racing, and it’s teaming up with a NASCAR legend. The Blue Blaster, which is the restored unlimited hydroplane sponsored by ...

TRI-CITIES — Dave Villwock has always been a master of getting his timing marks down when it comes to starting an unlimited hydroplane race.