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As per XCat FB page:

Gary Ballough and Ahmed Al Hameli went from competitors to team mates to double Victory's chance for victory.


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What caused the boat to flip? According to the XCat speaker, the tilt tube bracket broke, the drivers lost control and over it went. Both drivers are ok!
Another XCat team #7 "Al Wasl" inspected their boat's tilt tube bracket, found issues with it, replaced it and prevented another crash.

The same occurred on Nick's 3 liter motor...visit DougWright Forum for details.

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MTI has developed an XCat race boat

MTI 340X Race

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From XCat Racing

Maritimo’s Tom Barry-Cotter said the team’s race boat and workshop container are currently en route to the UAE and after spending the summer months testing and improving the boat he is confident it will be competitive. Maritimo Racing will compete in a newly refurbished 30ft Doug Wright design with two 400 ROS Mercury Racing outboards. Barry-Cotter said the boat had been completely re-rigged and repaired following its 200 kilometres per hour plus crash in 2016 and had been rebranded from Gold Coast Australia to Maritimo Racing.

“We lengthened the boat to better handle the 400 ROS outboards and we have undertaken cockpit safety modifications with changes to the windscreen, seats and both upper and lower escape hatches,” he said.

^^^ 200 km/h crash reference in above posting = 124.27mph

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