EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Financial worries and sluggish contract talks with the Hydroplane Racing League led the Convention & Visitors Bureau to walk away from boat racing this year, but officials said it ...

1971 was the last time the community-owned hydroplane boat Miss Madison won the American Power Boat Association Gold Cup, the sport's most prestigious trophy, in Madison, Indiana. Early in the race, ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- A sleepy 684-acre impoundment of the Flint River could be temporarily turned into a high-speed race site for light, super-fast hydroplane boats later this summer. The county ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A southern Indiana tradition takes off on the river again, as the 71st Madison Regatta begins. Hydroplane boats lined up to get into the Ohio River for practice on Friday, ...

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Detroit — The throngs used to number 400,000, and the city would close off Jefferson Avenue, much of the riverfront and bring the drivers and crews in with police escorts. That was hydroplane racing ...

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Syracuse, NY - A hydroplane boat crash at the Hydrofest race on Onondaga Lake Saturday injured two boat drivers. Hydroplane driver Jimmy Shane, of Havre de Grace, Md., was rounding the second turn of ...

Syracuse, NY - A hydroplane boat crash this afternoon on Onondaga Lake sent two boat drivers to University Hospital. Both drivers were unconscious and one was pinned in his cockpit, but both regained ...