Kilometer straightaway record course, Oroville, CA, 03/2004. Video was taken by one of the Oberto family members if I recall. Miss Budweiser ran approximately 213 mph southbound (left to right in photos) and 227 or so northbound, for an avg of 220, eclipsing the old record of just over 200 or so. The boat was accelerating through the length of the kilo according to the driver, Dave Villwock, so the right-to-left run in this clip is showing the boat at mebbe 240+ (driver’s comment) when the …

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1. saillfish on December 15th, 2009 10:40 pm

   Yeah, on glassy smooth water, no wind and very control course. These guys race on windy rough lakes with a ton of boat wakes hull to hull at 215mph and turning. Thats racing.

2. butchlaw2000 on December 15th, 2009 11:07 pm

   Your High. In the streches these boats will reach near 200mph. In less than a 1/4 mile. They also TURN. Drags boats plez, go straight. big deal.

3. swfladon on December 18th, 2009 10:34 am

   I met a guy in Fort Myers the other day who owns the last working Miss Budweiser as well as “Popeye”. $3 million worth of boats in his garage. Pretty impressive. He’s looking for a georgeous blond to drive for him.

4. unkiemotorhead on December 20th, 2009 5:28 pm

   240+ on the northbound run just before the prop or whatever exploded…not really slow motion relative to drag boats…just different. Both are insane in their own way.

5. imacgoo on December 21st, 2009 12:23 pm

   Actually these guys are in slow motion compared to drag boat racing.Drag boats get into the 250mph range

6. imacgoo on December 22nd, 2009 8:10 am

   NO,it’s not.Actually Nitro drag boat racing is the most dangerous motorsport.

7. hyena429 on December 24th, 2009 7:26 am

   Dean Chenoweth took the old miss bud up too 220 before it crashed{you can all look it up if you dont beleive me}…average speed has really went down…before he died on the columbia they were averging about 175..last few years 160ish…so many improvements you would think they would be going faster..but it is dangerous…but the nitro pistons would kill the new jet boats..lol fact:)

8. butchlaw2000 on December 26th, 2009 5:20 am

   hydro plane racing is the most dangerous racing on earth.

9. gphydro on December 26th, 2009 4:23 pm

   yeah mate sure are 100% agree i driven a hydro.my father use to race, but my point was that prop driven hydros are alot faster then 205mph.but yeh ur right they are very diff

10. unkiemotorhead on December 27th, 2009 8:27 am

    Yup, crazy stuff too. Not to take anything away from drag racing, butttt, these are both very different. I’ve been in drgboats, and kilo environments like this. Boats and cars. And no doubt, 0 to whatever with amazing acceleration is huge. But hanging onto something going that fast for an entire kilometer is a totally different, equally insane achievement. Another perspective: Lotsa people have run their cars up to 150. But how may have stayed up there for miles and miles? Very different.

11. gphydro on December 29th, 2009 5:28 pm

    prop driven hydros have bn well past 205mph the drag hydro boats r doing 250+mph in like 4.6seconds

12. peeweethepinstriper on January 1st, 2010 6:23 pm

    I sold the piece of the prop that broke off a while back on ebay.. actually spoke the Joe little via phone and sent photos of the piece we found that day on the lake .. it is about 3miles from my home and we were just right of where the video was shot…

13. unkiemotorhead on January 3rd, 2010 12:17 pm

    I dunno actually what broke first. mebbe the shaft and/or strut, and/or the prop?… which then took out the rudder…..

14. trkr27 on January 5th, 2010 2:56 pm

    ouch! what threw the prop?

15. FatPumPumLovah on January 7th, 2010 5:45 pm

    my bad 205 was in June of 2000

16. FatPumPumLovah on January 9th, 2010 3:44 am

    Bullshit… world record is 205mph in july 2007 for propeller driven hydro… what makes you think this beat that record in 2004???

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