EVANSVILLE — With the way Jimmy King was running away, Jeff Bernard didn’t think he had any chance at victory. But when the propeller broke on King’s U-3 Master Tire on lap three, the door was open for Bernard and the 24-year-old burst through, holding off teammate J. Michael Kelly to win a controversial Thunder on the Ohio Unlimited hydroplane race in Evansville Sunday.
8/25/2009
Album ID: 821966
Photos by David Campbell
Oberto, Elam suffer through stormy day
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EVANSVILLE — Maybe watermelons are bad luck after all. During Saturday’s qualifying session, the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison and U-16 Miss Elam Plus teams had a little fun with the old boat racing superstition, trading a watermelon back and forth between their respective pits in a good-natured attempt to jinx the other. By Sunday night, neither team was laughing. The Miss Elam Plus flipped in Sunday’s Heat 1A, essentially ending its weekend and the Oh Boy! Oberto paid the price, drawing two penalties in the incident.
8/24/2009
Album ID: 821963
Photos by David Campbell
Detroit Gold Cup - Saturday
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Preliminary heats
Saturday, July 11
HEAT 1A
1. Steve David, U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto, 147.983; 2. J. Michael Kelly, U-7 Graham Trucking, 143.020; 3. Jeff Bernard, U-5 Formulaboats.com, 137.526; 4. Kip Brown, U-17 Our Gang Racing, 130.006; 5. Brian Perkins, U-48 Miss Albert Lee, 121.070; 6. Mike Webster, U-22 Matrix Systems, 119.167.
Fast Lap: David, No. 1, 152.010 mph.
HEAT 1B
1. Dave Villwock, U-16 Miss Elam Plus, 144.491; 2. Ken Muscatel, U-25 Jarvis Fire and Water Repair, 127.439; 3. Greg Hopp, U-100 Jarvis Painting, 106.292; 4. J.W. Myers, U-37 Miss Detroit Yacht Club, 131.048*; Jimmy King, U-3 Miss Chrysler-Jeep, DNF.
Fast Lap: Villwock, No. 1, 149.757 mph.
*-penalized one lap for jumping the gun
7/13/2009
Album ID: 796135
Photos by David Campbell
Detroit Gold Cup - Sunday
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Sunday, July 12
HEAT 2A
1. Dave Villwock, U-16 Miss Elam Plus, 151.975; 2. J. Michael Kelly, U-7 Graham Trucking, 146.220; 3. Jeff Bernard, U-5 Formulaboats.com, 142.448; 4. Brian Perkins, U-48 Miss Albert Lee, 136.172; 5. Ken Muscatel, U-25 Jarvis Fire and Water Repaair, 124.122.
Fast Lap: Villwock, No. 1, 155.432 mph.
HEAT 2B
1. Steve David, U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto, 145.728; 2. Greg Hopp, U-100 Jarvis Painting, 138.785; 3. Kip Brown, U-17 Our Gang Racing, 124.134; 4. Jimmy King, U-3 Miss Chrysler-Jeep, 132.815*; 5. J.W. Myers, U-37 Miss Detroit Yacht Club, 131.351*.
Fast Lap: David, No. 1, 147.280 mph.
*-penalized one lap for jumping the gun.
HEAT 3A
1. Dave Villwock, U-16 Miss Elam Plus, 144.852; 2. Brian Perkins, U-48 Miss Albert Lee, 134.380; 3. Ken Muscatel, U-25 Jarvis Fire and Water Repair, 128.445; 4. Jeff Bernard, U-5 Formulaboats.com, 137.880*; 5. J. Michael Kelly, U-7 Graham Trucking, 111.873.*
Fast Lap: Villwock, No. 1, 151.960 mph.
*-penalized one lap for jumping the gun.
HEAT 3B
1. Steve David, U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto, 126.289; 2. Greg Hopp, U-100 Jarvis Painting, 123.550; 3. J.W. Myers, U-37 Miss Detroit Yacht Club, 130.572*; 4. Kip Brown, U-17 Our Gang Racing, 115.896*; Jimmy King, U-3 Miss Chrysler-Jeep, DNS.
Fast Lap: Myers, No. 1, 137.124 mph.
HEAT 4A
1. Jeff Bernard, U-5 Formulaboats.com, 137.790; 2. J. Michael Kelly, U-7 Graham Trucking, 134.145; 3. Greg Hopp, U-100 Jarvis Painting, 133.145; 4. Kip Brown, U-17 Our Gang Racing, 119.357; 5. Dave Villwock, U-16 Miss Elam Plus, 115.106*.
Fast Lap: Bernard, No. 2, 140.664 mph.
*-penalized one lap, 150 points for lane encroachment.
HEAT 4B
1. Steve David, U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto, 139.656; 2. J.W. Myers, U-37 Miss Detroit Yacht Club, 131.640; 3. Brian Perkins, U-48 Miss Albert Lee, 130.015; Jimmy King, U-3 Miss Chrysler-Jeep, DNS; Ken Muscatel, U-25 Jarvis Fire and Water Repair, DNS.
Fast Lap: David, No. 1, 145.070 mph.
7/13/2009
Album ID: 796779
Photos by David Campbell
Elam Outduels Oberto for Gold Cup
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Villwock change-up puts Elam on inside track to his eighth Gold Cup. DETROIT, Mich. — Dave Villwock is a die-hard Seattle Mariners fan. So it was no surprise to see him revert to a baseball cliché when describing his final heat strategy. “Everybody expects us to come out throwing heaters,” said Villwock. “Well, today, we threw them a change-up.”
Villwock pulled out of the pits at the start the final heat and parked his U-16 Miss Elam Plus right in lane one. He never completed a warm-up lap and was barely even under his own power. For more than five minutes, he sat in the Detroit River, essentially allowing the current to carry him down-stream.
7/13/2009
Album ID: 796811
Photos by David Campbell
09 Thursday's Madison Regatta Action
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7/3/2009
Album ID: 790497
Photos by Mark Campbell
Burgin to reign over Regatta
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Alex Whitney Burgin, a 24-year-old Indiana University Southeast junior and Jeffersonville resident, captured the crown at the 2009 Miss Madison Regatta Scholarship Pageant on Monday night at Madison Consolidated High School’s Opal E. Sherman Auditorium.
6/30/2009
Album ID: 788812
Photos by Ken Ritchie
Madison takes home honors at ABRA
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2/16/2009
Album ID: 692760
Photos by David Campbell
City's Support is Appreciated
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Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison driver Steve David thanks the crowd for its support of the city’s racing team Friday night at a public celebration at the Moose Lodge for the ABRA Unlimited Hydroplane National Championship. The ABRA will hold its annual banquet tonight in Madison at the Livery Stable.
2/14/2009
Album ID: 692578
Photos by Ken Ritchie
ABRA General Meeting
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The ABRA General Meeting at Madison City Hall in Madison, IN on Saturday. ABRA officials outlined some of the changes that the owners have adopted for the 2009 season and took questions from the audience.
2/14/2009
Album ID: 691958
Photos by Photos by Mark Campbell and David Campbell
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