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AMSOIL Offshore Achieves 3rd Place in Heated Competition at 2015 SBI Key West World C

Old 11-18-2015, 01:51 PM
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Default AMSOIL Offshore Achieves 3rd Place in Heated Competition at 2015 SBI Key West World C

The 35th Annual Key West Offshore World Championships was the stage for the greatest race yet in the Superboat Class. Nine Superboats were preregistered, including a brand new 388 Skater being raced for the first time by the new Performance Boat Center team and a completely in-house effort by Maritimo from Australia. All the new faces and equipment brought with them much intrigue and drama, but as any Key West veteran knows, it is experience and not hype that counts.

The Key West World Championships are a standalone 3 race event, with the final Sunday race counting for double points. All the results from all the races through the season are meaningless on the outcome of Key West, and most teams will leave it all on the table for the World Championship. Even though Team AMSOIL is only coming to their second World Championships with Teague Custom Marine Superboat Spec engines, they would now be considered veterans in the class. Last year did not go smoothly, with a first lap DNF for the first race of the week. This year Team AMSOIL Offshore had the mindset of finishing all 3 races consistently and without any technical mishaps. The pressure would be on, as not only do tens of thousands of fans flock to the island from all over the world, a full film crew for NBC Sports shadowed all the teams for a 3 hour special, tentatively set to air in February 2016.

Preparation and testing Monday and Tuesday went smoothly for the Team. Conditions were calm, smooth, and unusually hot for early November in Key West. All Superboat Teams tested successfully except the HP Mafia 388 Skater, which had an oil pump fail and kill the bottom end of one engine. They set off to rebuild the engine through the week, and 8 Superboats made the call Wednesday for Race 1.

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