That’s a badass boat! Any other intel on who’s running this year?
Keith Atlanta
08-02-2018 01:42 PM
#Breaking the V bottom record of 187 at Lake of the Ozarks
Matt Trulio
08-02-2018 03:30 PM
Originally Posted by SecondWind
(Post 4641462)
That’s a badass boat! Any other intel on who’s running this year?
As we've done for the past several years, Jason Johnson and I will be adding Lake of the Ozarks Shootout "preview" stories almost daily in advance of the event. Look for one on American Ethanol to go live tomorrow.
Matt Trulio
08-02-2018 03:36 PM
Originally Posted by Keith Atlanta
(Post 4641471)
#Breaking the V bottom record of 187 at Lake of the Ozarks
If memory serves, the current Lake of the Ozarks Shootout V-bottom speed record is 165 mph and was set by Dennis and Jason Parvey. Did I miss something? Or is my memory not serving? :)
Cash Bar
08-02-2018 03:38 PM
A V-bottom hitting 187 at LOTO would be front page here everyday for a year. I don't think that is accurate.
Coolerman
08-02-2018 03:59 PM
Originally Posted by SecondWind
(Post 4641462)
That’s a badass boat! Any other intel on who’s running this year?
A kilo run and a shootout are not the same and take a completely different approach to attempting.
Matt Trulio
08-02-2018 04:32 PM
Originally Posted by Coolerman
(Post 4641489)
A kilo run and a shootout are not the same and take a completely different approach to attempting.
Ah, now I see the confusion—and your statement is 100 percent accurate. The current APBA V-bottom kilo record, set by an Outerlimits in 2014, is 180.464 mph. Per APBA rules, breaking a kilo record requires at minimum a 3 percent minimum increase in average top speed (during two full kilometer runs in opposite directions in a given time period), which means an average speed of 185-plus-mph for any would be record-setter. A tall order, to be sure.
Kilo runs are actually time on a measured course and the average speed is derived through that timing. The Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, on the other, is a solo-boat (exhibition runs excepted) drag race on a straight course (this year and last three-quarters of a mile) to a radar-caputured top speed.
