Closed Course Speed Records 
Five Miles in Competition
L Class
91 Cubic Inch through 1970
98 Cubic inch 1971-1978
Date Site Name(s) Boat Engine/Hull Speed (MPH)
08/24/40 Red Bank, NJ Thomas Chatfield Scoundrel Apel/Gray 52.295
xx/xx/50 Bush River, MD Jack Van Deman Red Witch Peek*/Peek 53.989
02/17/51 St. Petersburg, FL Jack Van Deman Red Witch Peek*/Peek 59.960
02/12/56 St. Petersburg, FL Burt Davidson Porky L-7 Dragon**/Sooy 60.688
02/03/62 St. Petersburg, FL F. C. “Doc” Moor Southern Air V  Alfa Romeo/Lauterbach 69.552
08/30/64 Miami, FL F. C. “Doc” Moor L-1 Southern Air V  Alfa Romeo/Lauterbach 70.066
09/20/64 Miami, FL F. C. “Doc” Moor L-1 Southern Air V Alfa Romeo/Lauterbach 72.993
02/06/66 St. Petersburg, FL F. C. “Doc” Moor Southern Air V Alfa Romeo/R. Jones 77.453
02/06/71 St. Petersburg, FL Richard L. Cooper L-1 First Mortgage Alfa Romeo/Lauterbach 78.261
07/22/73 Seattle, WA Richard L. Cooper L-1 First Mortgage Alfa Romeo/Lauterbach 83.256
07/08/78 Tumwater, WA Jack Philpott L-67 Voodoo V  BMW/Black  84.786
*Believed to be a Flat 8 using Crosley cylinder blocks and crankcases
**two Crosleys end to end
 
 
Straightaway Speed Records
One Mile or One Kilometer
L Class
91 Cubic Inch through 1970
98 Cubic inch 1971 and after
Date Site Name(s) Boat Engine/Hull Speed (MPH)
09/29/40 Washington, DC Thomas Chatfield Scoundrel Apel/Gray 57.793
07/08/51 Bush River, MD Tony Margio Miss Fort Pitt Peek*/Peek 71.891
12/28/53 Miami, FL Sam Crooks Dragon Peek*/Peek 78.202
12/29/58 Miami, FL F. C. “Doc” Moor Driftwood Crosley/Loeb 84.669
08/17/64 Ft. Lauderdale, FL F. C. “Doc” Moor L-1 Southern Air V Alfa Romeo/Lauterbach 92.821
10/30/65 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Richard L. Cooper First Mortgage ? 98.390
04/11/66 Punta Gorda, FL Richard L. Cooper First Mortgage Alfa Romeo/Lauterbach 107.304
11/25/67 Parker, AZ Harvey Stuska L-64 Metisse Lotus-Ford/Stuska 113.374
*Believed to be a Flat 8 using Crosley cylinder blocks and crankcases
Mile Speed Record
Kilometer Speed Record.
 
 
Last updated: December 14, 2003
Data originally compiled by Bob Foley. 
This will be an ongoing collection of data. If you can help, please contribute.
If you have written proof of a L class racing hull setting a record, 
please email Bob and we'll add it to this list. 

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