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Mercury Superboat Race Engines Set New World Speed Record

Mercury Racing Power Smashes Previous Record by 20+ mph!

Fond du Lac, Wis., Aug. 8, 2005 - It took three years to break the
Superboat
(formerly called Super Cat) kilo speed record set by Nemschoff
Motorsports
back in 2002, and less than a day to break it again.

Mercury Racing established a new world kilo speed record of 160.986 mph

Friday, Aug. 5, 2005, on the Pamlico River at the Fountain Powerboats
factory in Washington, N.C. Team CRC members Jeff Harris of Greenville,
N.C.,
and Mike DeFrees of Vancouver, Wash., used their 40-foot MTI catamaran
to
set the record. The record was set with twin Mercury Superboat race
engines
coupled to Mercury Racing dry-sump Six drives. Team CRC currently leads
the
Offshore Super Series OSS Cat class competition points chase.

Weather conditions were no less than miserable - with overcast skies,
high
humidity and temperatures hovering in the high 80s - making things
treacherous for drivers and trying for both crews and spectators alike.


Team CRC flew through the traps at speeds of 158+ mph to set a new
world
kilo speed record, but Harris and DeFrees were bound and determined to
upping the record even higher. The original record was set Aug. 9, 2002
in
Cleveland, Ohio, by driver Paul Nemschoff with his father, Mark
Nemschoff, on
the sticks in a MTI hull, powered by custom built Koury/Nemschoff
engines.

Taking advantage of an open river and a boat ready to run, Team CRC
again
fired up their MTI hull for another attempt at the record. The reward
was
sweet, as their fastest one-way attempt reached 161.715 mph! With a
recorded average speed of 160.986 mph, Team CRC had smashed the
previous record by an incredible 23.976 mph!

The records, governed on-site by Super Boat International Productions
(SBIP)
and sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association (APBA) and the
Union International Motonautique (UIM), require back-to-back speed runs

over a straight-line, one kilometer course. The record is the average
of two
consecutive speed runs.

The APBA had sanctioned the day for this record, as well as other
records in
different classes, as part of the SBIP/APBA Fourth Annual Fountain
Super
Boat Grand Prix & Kilo event which took place Aug. 5-7.

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