Geico / sbi release 2015
12-06-2014 | 02:34 PM
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Geico / sbi release 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Super Boat International Proud To Announce GEICO As Presenting Sponsor Of 2015 Race Series
Key West, Fla. (December 5th, 2014) – Super Boat International (SBI) is proud to announce GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) as the “Presenting Sponsor” of the 2015 SBI racing season. The sponsorship entitlement will bring an even larger awareness to SBI and offshore racing and at the same time deliver a great motorsports platform to the second-largest private passenger auto insurance company in the United States. The new agreement is with the mutual intent of both parties for it to be a multi-year sponsorship agreement.
SBI president, John Carbonell, is excited with the new agreement. “We are pleased to have signed an agreement with GEICO as our presenting sponsor. They are a great company and we are looking forward to the new relationship. I am confident 2015 will be another great season of racing. The Key West races in November produced some of the best action on the course we have seen in years. I was very pleased to see all the teams there and all the fans having such a great week, that’s what racing is all about.”
Super Boat will be working closely with members of GEICO to ensure an exciting and rewarding sponsor partnership. The excitement is running high for both Super Boat and offshore race teams. World Champions like Miss GEICO Racing, Team Broadco, Team Hooters Instigator, Snowy Mountain Brewery, Black Pearl, SOS Venezula and In Tone Crazy Chicken are making arrangements for the fast approaching season. Super Boat International has seen a significant boost in event attendance and online viewership, specifically since the inception of livestreaming events in mid 2012. Online viewers have watched Super Boat events around the world and have tuned in from 187 countries.
“GEICO is pleased to be the presenting sponsor of the 2015 Super Boat International Racing Series. GEICO is committed to offshore racing, powerboats, and motorsports and is extremely proud to be associated with Super Boat International. GEICO looks forward to another action packed season of deck-to-deck professional offshore racing,” comments managing member of Miss GEICO Racing, Gary Goodell.
Super Boat is releasing their 2015 race schedule. Races will be returning to spectacular race sites in addition to the return of Marathon, Florida on the 4th of July weekend. Marathon has been a mainstay for many years on the SBI circuit in the Florida Keys, racing under both the old and new 7-mile bridges.
2015 Race Schedule:
GEICO Presents 6th Annual Space Coast Super Boat Grand Prix
Cocoa Beach, Florida May 15-17
GEICO Presents Marathon Super Boat Grand Prix
Marathon, Florida July 3-5
GEICO Presents 7th Annual Super Boat Great Lakes Grand Prix
Michigan City, Indiana July 31-Aug 2
GEICO Presents 2nd Annual Pensacola Grand Prix
Pensacola, Florida Aug 21-23
GEICO Presents 7th Annual bright house Clearwater Super Boat National Championship
Clearwater, Florida Sept 25-27
GEICO Presents 35th Annual Key West World Championship
Key West, Florida Nov 8-15
All Super Boat races are streamed live around the world and can be seen here at http://new.livestream.com/sbi. Go online to register for free with Livestream, follow the Super Boat Livestream channel and set your preferences to get a text notification when racing is about to begin. The 2014 season saw over 1.5 million combined hits on superboat.com and Livestream viewers.
More About GEICO
GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and is the second-largest private passenger auto insurance company in the United States. GEICO provides millions of auto insurance quotes to U.S. drivers annually. The company is pleased to serve more than 12 million private passenger customers and insures more than 18 million vehicles (auto & cycle). GEICO’s online service center helps policyholders take care of policy sales, policy changes, claims reporting and to print insurance ID cards. GEICO also provides insurance quotes on motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), travel trailers and motorhomes (RVs). Coverage for boats, life, homes and apartments is written by non-affiliated insurance companies and is secured through the GEICO Insurance Agency, Commercial auto insurance and personal umbrella protection are also available. For more information, go to www.geico.com.
More About Super Boat International
Super Boat International (SBI) is the leading North American professional powerboat organization founded by John Carbonell. Teams from all around the world compete May through October in the National Series Points races and conclude in November for the famous Key West World Championships. SBI produces weeklong race events including entertainment, kilo races and distance records throughout the United States, South America and the Bahamas. Races include the World’s fastest Vee-bottom and Catamaran style powerboats, reaching speeds in excess of 200 mph.
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Super Boat International Proud To Announce GEICO As Presenting Sponsor Of 2015 Race Series
Key West, Fla. (December 5th, 2014) – Super Boat International (SBI) is proud to announce GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) as the “Presenting Sponsor” of the 2015 SBI racing season. The sponsorship entitlement will bring an even larger awareness to SBI and offshore racing and at the same time deliver a great motorsports platform to the second-largest private passenger auto insurance company in the United States. The new agreement is with the mutual intent of both parties for it to be a multi-year sponsorship agreement.
SBI president, John Carbonell, is excited with the new agreement. “We are pleased to have signed an agreement with GEICO as our presenting sponsor. They are a great company and we are looking forward to the new relationship. I am confident 2015 will be another great season of racing. The Key West races in November produced some of the best action on the course we have seen in years. I was very pleased to see all the teams there and all the fans having such a great week, that’s what racing is all about.”
Super Boat will be working closely with members of GEICO to ensure an exciting and rewarding sponsor partnership. The excitement is running high for both Super Boat and offshore race teams. World Champions like Miss GEICO Racing, Team Broadco, Team Hooters Instigator, Snowy Mountain Brewery, Black Pearl, SOS Venezula and In Tone Crazy Chicken are making arrangements for the fast approaching season. Super Boat International has seen a significant boost in event attendance and online viewership, specifically since the inception of livestreaming events in mid 2012. Online viewers have watched Super Boat events around the world and have tuned in from 187 countries.
“GEICO is pleased to be the presenting sponsor of the 2015 Super Boat International Racing Series. GEICO is committed to offshore racing, powerboats, and motorsports and is extremely proud to be associated with Super Boat International. GEICO looks forward to another action packed season of deck-to-deck professional offshore racing,” comments managing member of Miss GEICO Racing, Gary Goodell.
Super Boat is releasing their 2015 race schedule. Races will be returning to spectacular race sites in addition to the return of Marathon, Florida on the 4th of July weekend. Marathon has been a mainstay for many years on the SBI circuit in the Florida Keys, racing under both the old and new 7-mile bridges.
2015 Race Schedule:
GEICO Presents 6th Annual Space Coast Super Boat Grand Prix
Cocoa Beach, Florida May 15-17
GEICO Presents Marathon Super Boat Grand Prix
Marathon, Florida July 3-5
GEICO Presents 7th Annual Super Boat Great Lakes Grand Prix
Michigan City, Indiana July 31-Aug 2
GEICO Presents 2nd Annual Pensacola Grand Prix
Pensacola, Florida Aug 21-23
GEICO Presents 7th Annual bright house Clearwater Super Boat National Championship
Clearwater, Florida Sept 25-27
GEICO Presents 35th Annual Key West World Championship
Key West, Florida Nov 8-15
All Super Boat races are streamed live around the world and can be seen here at http://new.livestream.com/sbi. Go online to register for free with Livestream, follow the Super Boat Livestream channel and set your preferences to get a text notification when racing is about to begin. The 2014 season saw over 1.5 million combined hits on superboat.com and Livestream viewers.
More About GEICO
GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and is the second-largest private passenger auto insurance company in the United States. GEICO provides millions of auto insurance quotes to U.S. drivers annually. The company is pleased to serve more than 12 million private passenger customers and insures more than 18 million vehicles (auto & cycle). GEICO’s online service center helps policyholders take care of policy sales, policy changes, claims reporting and to print insurance ID cards. GEICO also provides insurance quotes on motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), travel trailers and motorhomes (RVs). Coverage for boats, life, homes and apartments is written by non-affiliated insurance companies and is secured through the GEICO Insurance Agency, Commercial auto insurance and personal umbrella protection are also available. For more information, go to www.geico.com.
More About Super Boat International
Super Boat International (SBI) is the leading North American professional powerboat organization founded by John Carbonell. Teams from all around the world compete May through October in the National Series Points races and conclude in November for the famous Key West World Championships. SBI produces weeklong race events including entertainment, kilo races and distance records throughout the United States, South America and the Bahamas. Races include the World’s fastest Vee-bottom and Catamaran style powerboats, reaching speeds in excess of 200 mph.
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12-06-2014 | 02:41 PM
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Wow what awesome news, Congrats Geico and SBI . Geico and SBI are always working to take Offshore to the next level this is just one more example. Geico has done more for the sport hands down then anyone I can think of in the last 25 yrs, they are a first class Team and Company.
12-06-2014 | 03:15 PM
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I have this on speedonthewater.com (although in shorter form as I edit all press releases) but there's not reason to post the thread here, as there is nothing in my story that isn't in the first post.
Great news for both parties.
Great news for both parties.
12-06-2014 | 04:00 PM
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Didnt know Qatar was backing an Orgs hadnt read that anywhere, actually if you look back the few short yrs Qatar has raced in the US the only thing they have backed is themselves.
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12-06-2014 | 04:27 PM
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I have to say most of the racers agree with ur statement ( United we????? ) we dont get it any more then you why another fraction would come alone and try and splinter what we have. Not like the racers asked for it but its all about ego's and what someone thinks is best for the masses.
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Steve Curtis’s Offshore Grand Prix unveiled
Posted on November 25, 2014 by RichardCarrRacing
Last week, former British powerboat Champion Richard Carr announced his support of Steve Curtis’ (picture above far right) proposed Offshore Powerboat Grand Prix (OPGP) – and now the Championship has officially been unveiled.
Qatar on the powerboat map
During its first season as a powerboat series, the OPGP will team up with the Qatar Marine Sports Federation to jointly promote the brand new Qatar Cup.
Sheikh Hasson bin Jabor Al-Thani and Steve Curtis, who broke the powerboat speed record, are the people behind the new series and Curtis, who will act as interim president of the OPGP, confirmed that the Qatar Cup will feature exciting classes for Super Cat, Super Vee Light, Super Vees and a new handicap racing-type format.
The four day festival will take place in early February, 2015 in Doha Bay, with boats being shipped out from the USA on December 8th. Boats are also expected to compete from New Zealand and Australia.
Handicap grid system
OPGP interim President Curtis also talked about another boat class and the possibility of having all the boats on the course at the same time: “We also have the Cat Lights coming. These are very similar to XCats – where we hope to have 8 to 10 boats competing.
“Mohammed Al-Nasser (Qatar’s XCat driver) has also been invited, but the engine rules are slightly different so he will need to do some work with his engines.
“Super Cats, with around 800hp, is the main class we are bringing over, but we also have the V hulls and we will try a new handicap system that is used in sailing to have all the boats on the course at the same time.
“This has never been done before. Basically there will be two laps on the course – the fastest boats may do 10 of the longer laps and the smaller boats may do 10 of the shorter ones. A handicap will be determined to put the racing on a level playing field and they will use the same chequered flag.
“This format was used before in a series called Offshore 2000 in the 1990s and was very successful.”
Richard Carr excited by the future
As previously stated, Richard believes that the OPGP is excellent news for the sport and would one day love to compete in the series.
He believes the formation of the series was very timely and at a point when powerboating was beginning to see a decline. He believes Steve Curtis’ new venture has the potential to reinvigorate the sport.
Posted on November 25, 2014 by RichardCarrRacing
Last week, former British powerboat Champion Richard Carr announced his support of Steve Curtis’ (picture above far right) proposed Offshore Powerboat Grand Prix (OPGP) – and now the Championship has officially been unveiled.
Qatar on the powerboat map
During its first season as a powerboat series, the OPGP will team up with the Qatar Marine Sports Federation to jointly promote the brand new Qatar Cup.
Sheikh Hasson bin Jabor Al-Thani and Steve Curtis, who broke the powerboat speed record, are the people behind the new series and Curtis, who will act as interim president of the OPGP, confirmed that the Qatar Cup will feature exciting classes for Super Cat, Super Vee Light, Super Vees and a new handicap racing-type format.
The four day festival will take place in early February, 2015 in Doha Bay, with boats being shipped out from the USA on December 8th. Boats are also expected to compete from New Zealand and Australia.
Handicap grid system
OPGP interim President Curtis also talked about another boat class and the possibility of having all the boats on the course at the same time: “We also have the Cat Lights coming. These are very similar to XCats – where we hope to have 8 to 10 boats competing.
“Mohammed Al-Nasser (Qatar’s XCat driver) has also been invited, but the engine rules are slightly different so he will need to do some work with his engines.
“Super Cats, with around 800hp, is the main class we are bringing over, but we also have the V hulls and we will try a new handicap system that is used in sailing to have all the boats on the course at the same time.
“This has never been done before. Basically there will be two laps on the course – the fastest boats may do 10 of the longer laps and the smaller boats may do 10 of the shorter ones. A handicap will be determined to put the racing on a level playing field and they will use the same chequered flag.
“This format was used before in a series called Offshore 2000 in the 1990s and was very successful.”
Richard Carr excited by the future
As previously stated, Richard believes that the OPGP is excellent news for the sport and would one day love to compete in the series.
He believes the formation of the series was very timely and at a point when powerboating was beginning to see a decline. He believes Steve Curtis’ new venture has the potential to reinvigorate the sport.
