$10k Prize Purse for Season Kick-Off in Biloxi

Super Vee Light (SVL) boat racers will be competing for a $10,000 prize purse provided by Powerboat P1 USA when the green flag drops on its 2010 race season in Biloxi, Mississippi, May 20-23, marking this the first of a nine-race "series" being sponsored by the North American arm of the London-based race promoters.

SVL racers agreed among themselves last year to
enter 2010 as a group and race a series of events with a variety of race promoters in order to increase boat count and thereby improve the competition in the class. The group currently runs under a set of rules that are consistent in all of the existing North American racing series. Moving forward they will adopt a set of rules mirroring the international series, chief among them the popular "power-to-weight-ratio" criteria, making the SVLs, essentially, the first Powerboat P1 class racing in the States.

The first race is being produced by the Offshore Super Series (OSS), but SVL teams will be racing together and working in tandem with P1 USA and other race promoters including the Offshore Powerboat Association (OPA) and Super Boat International (SBI). Powerboat P1 USA has guaranteed a total of $90,000 for nine races if racers meet a minimum boat count and additional sponsor fulfillment criteria, regardless of the series in which they race.

"The SVL racers share the Powerboat P1 USA philosophy of increasing boat count, competition and professionalism in offshore boat racing," said Martin Sanborn, Powerboat P1's Director of North American Operations. "As a group, they have agreed to meet our sponsor criteria and as a result, will be racing for an unprecedented prize money package in an American offshore series," he added.

The SVL sponsorship is designed to test the waters with Powerboat P1 USA's model of working with existing race promoters to improve the sport's marketability by having fewer classes, more participating boats, increased competition, a level of professionalism similar to other motorsports, and eventually, racing under a single, truly world-wide sanctioning body, the Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM).

The tentative schedule for the 2010 season is set for some of the most historic and favored race venues including Lake Cumberland, KY (OSS); Sunny Isles Beach, FL (OPA); Sarasota, FL (SBI); New York City (SBI); Atlantic City, NJ (OPA); St. Clair, MI (OPA); Orange Beach, AL (OPA/POPRA); and legendary Key West, FL (SBI).

Powerboat P1 USA is the domestic arm of the Powerboat P1 World Championship, an 8-year old racing organization based in the UK, under the direction of CEO, Asif Rangoonwala, that will host its first race in Penzance, England May 21-23 with the SuperStock Class (single engine outboard V-bottoms) races heading up a waterfront festival.

Sweet!

Chris

Is SVL or whatever it's going to be called now a one make series or can any hull enter? If it's open I think we are building a boat that would go well in the series - 34' 7'4" beam twin step with a 3/4 canopy four seats - could easily be made with a full canopy if needed. Here's some computer generated pictures .......... The slots at the stern are also exhausts - of course if you want plain headers we can do that as well!

Very nice looking boats but the max length is 32' in svl

Yep. and single 525 SEALED with bravo ..


but i like that 34 anyways..lol

32' measured at the transom, however, so if the boat is under 32' without the swim platform you are good to go. Call Mike Tomlinson at OSS and get his approval now in writing because you never know when the rules might secretly change.

Mike, its a twin engine with arnesons !!!!!

SVL is a single engine 32' LOA class.

Who is gonna show up with the first 700HP/6300lb Fountain for next year?

Yep. This will change the class for ever. Buzzi's, Ockie's, Sterlings. Should be very interesting and a great class to compete in.