Closed Course Speed Record Holders
Five Miles in Competition
F Service Runabout Class
Date Site Name(s) Boat Engine/Hull Speed (MPH)
xx/xx/50 New Martinsville, WVA Edison Hedges     50.533
8/12/56 Buffalo, NY (2 ½ Mile) Howard Hibbert (D)
Forest Johnson (O)		 Jr. Prowler ?/Johnson 51.843
08/18/57 Buffalo, NY (2 ½ Mile) Howard Hibbert (D)
Florence Wood (M)
Forest Johnson (O)		 Jr. Prowler ?/Johnson 55.987
09/07/58 Buffalo, NY (2 ½ Mile) Al Brinkman Seabiscuit ?/Johnson 58.479
02/03/62 St. Petersburg, FL Del Daily OH! MONA Chrysler/? 66.766
02/06/66 St. Petersburg, FL Curtis Brayer Dancing Bear 1957 Chrysler 392/Brayer 69.445
02/03/68 St. Petersburg, FL Curtis Brayer Dancing Bear 1957 Chrysler 392/Brayer 74.938
xx/xx/71 St. Petersburg, FL* Curtis Brayer Dancing Bear 1957 Chrysler 392/Brayer 77.787
* was current record shown in the St. Pete program for 1971 race.
 
 
Straightaway Speed Record Holders
One Mile or One Kilometer
F Service Runabout Class
Date Site Name(s) Boat Engine/Hull Speed (MPH)
xx/xx/47 San Diego, Ca Regg Schlemmer     43.012
08/15/48 Cambridge, MD Edison Hedges Red Eagle   47.306
          59.712
08/04/57 Cambridge, MD Jim Venner Too Much Crusader/Johnson 60.101
09/29/57 Elisabeth City, NC Jim Venner Too Much Crusader/Johnson 63.2135
10/05/58 Elisabeth City, NC Jim Venner Too Much Crusader/Johnson 66.099
08/26/60 Cape Coral, FL Del Daily OH! MONA   72.513
xx/xx/71 St. Petersburg, FL* Curtis Brayer Dancing Bear 1957 Chrysler 392/Brayer 94.607
Mile Record
Kilometer Record
* was current record shown in the St. Pete program for 1971 race.
 
 
This database was originally compiled by Bob Jones.
This will be an ongoing collection of data. If you can help, please contribute.
If you have written proof of a F Service Runabout Class class racing hull setting a record,
please email Bob Foley and we'll add it to this list. Last updated November 23, 2003.

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