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T2x

started out OK but, quality kept me from watching it all. Does it include his second attempt that got him?
Its hard for me to look at those refrigorater looking things for long.

No one was killed in that boat..........

I don't remember the name but one of those V8 record runs ended ugly. The guy set a record than tried to up it. The boat splintered in to pieces. Any ideas?

Nope.... but there were other Outboard records that ended fatally...none with V8's that I recall.

T2x

Wartinger has stones of titanium. Few people have the combination of engineer and daredevil to pull off something like that. It must of been a hell of a rush when he hit something. I have a pic of Cosker and Callan up on their side at 200MPH at LOTO. Same deal........

Bob Wartinger is by far the most prolific water speed record setter on the planet. His annual assault on Outboard hydro records is incredible especially when you consider that many of them are set with motors of less than 20 cu.in. His ability to squeeze the last drop of speed out of a setup is second to none. No doubt he could take the fastest offshore cats and make significant improvements given all that power and budgetary strength.

As far as the Callan "chinewalk" , if you look closely at the video, Wartinger was "sponson spanking" all the way through the acceleration (nitrous) phase of the runs, and the scale speed is significantly higher in the little hydro than in the giant cat. Taking nothing away from Callan and co., the outboard effort took a lot more driving skill and precision to accomplish with a lot less margin for error. IMHO.

T2x.

It wasn't with a V-8. You are thinking of the V-4 record runs in the 130/140 mph range back in the 1960's.

I posted the pics of the successful and crash runs to screamandfly years ago and Liquidnirvana has them copied to his collection as well.

Rich , Do Have A Copy Of The 83 World On Dvd?

Mark75H, No It was later than that . I'll have to dig in the old stuff to see. Some time in the 80's.