HYDROPLANE RACING is a sport for thrill-seekers. A human is strapped into what is essentially an airplane wing fitted out with an airplane (or helicopter) engine, and then zooms almost airborne across ...

Translation: Only luck will save you if the monster spins or flips and bucks you clear. Which happened a lot during the first two decades of unlimited hydroplane racing, when nearly a dozen top racers ...

A West Richland couple sat in the shade Sunday watching the boats and jets speed past on the Columbia River. Glenn and Terri Grant have been coming to the Tri-City hydroplane races for more than 35 ...

Sometimes there is a crossroads in a person’s life where a decision changes their life forever. David Williams came to that crossroads in 1992. “I love to cook, and I was saving to go to the Le Cordon ...

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 ...