Closed Course Speed Record Holders 
Five Miles in Competition
T Class
44 ci through 1974
 72 ci 1975 thru 1977
1200 cc 1978 and after
Date Site Name(s) Boat Engine/Hull Speed (MPH)
07/27/60 Red Bank, NJ Ray Myers (O)
Victor Bupp (D)		 Tach-1 Crosley/Myers 49.342
08/xx/61 Chestertown, MD Ray Myers (O)
Victor Bupp (D)		 Tach-1 Crosley/Myers 49.505
08/10/63 Chestertown, MD Ray Myers (O)
Victor Bupp (D)		 Tach-1 Crosley/Myers 50.279
07/26/69 Red Bank, NJ James Campbell Jinx Crosley/Campbell 54.695
08/11/74 Essex, MD Richard Sooy (O)
Susan Sooy (D)		 Double Eagle Toyota/Sooy 58.901
08/10/75 Essex, MD Edmund Thompson (O)
Edmund Thompson III (D)		 T-M Special, Jr. Toyota/Sooy 59.880
08/30/75 Hampton, VA Edmund Thompson (O)
Edmund Thompson III (D)		 T-M Special, Jr. Toyota/Sooy 64.332
02/18/78 St. Petersburg, FL Richard Sooy (O)
David Shaw (D)		 Double Eagle Toyota/Sooy 66.593
07/08/78 Tumwater, WA Larry Campbell (O)
Jeff Campbell (D)		 Wee Warrior Datsun/Campbell 67.340
09/29/79 Essex, MD Edmund Thompson, Jr. (O)
Edmund Thompson III (D) 		 T-35 T-M Special Toyota/R. Jones 68.027
09/30/79 Essex, MD Richard M. Sooy (O)
Pamela Adams (D)		 Double Eagle Toyota/Sooy 69.767
07/31/82 Black Lake, WA Nate Brown Hyperspace Toyota/Campbell-Brown 72.376
02/xx/87 St. Petersburg, FL Billy Tetro (O)
Steve David (D)		 ? ?/Blide 72+

 
Straightaway Speed Record Holders
One Mile or One Kilometer
T Class
44 ci through 1974 
72 ci 1975 thru 1977 
1200 cc 1978 and after
Date Site Name(s) Boat Engine/Hull Speed (MPH)
07/24/60  Norristown PA Ray Myers (O)
Victor Bupp (D)		 Tach-1 Crosley/Myers 62.614
07/21/62 Norristown PA Lewis Darr Bad News Crosley/Darr 63.540
07/19/69 Norristown, PA James Campbell Jinx Crosley/Campbell 69.906
09/27/75 New Martinsville George Ritter, Jr. (O)
George Ritter III (D) 		 That’s My Boy Toyota/Lloyd 73.974
04/30/76 Parker, AZ Rodney Zapf (O)
Michael Gudvagen		 Hallucinating Tiger Datsun/Zafangen 78.840
02/20/77 Waterford, CA Joe Schulte (O)
Sue Schulte (D) 		 Junkyard Dawg Toyota/Sooy 80.047
09/24/77 Lincoln City, OR Larry Campbell (O)
Jeff Campbell (D)		 Wee Warrior Datsun/Campbell 83.783
11/25/78 Parker, AZ Allan Ford (O)
Stuart A. Ford (D)		 Lanky II Datsun/Jones 85.536
11/23/79 Parker, AZ Joe Schulte (O)
Joe John Schulte (D)		 Junkyard Dawg Toyota/Sooy 87.897*
11/24/79 Parker, AZ Allen A. Ford (O)
Stuart A. Ford (D)		 Lanky II Datsun/Jones 89.277
04/xx/85 Moorehaven, FL Joe Schulte Junkyard Dawg Toyota/Sooy 91.417
xx/xx/xx Moorehaven, FL Skip Gillam (O)
George Kennedy, Jr.(D)		 ? Hallett ?
* Not recognized as an official record because Stuart Ford turned a faster Kilometer the next day on the same sanction.
Mile Speed Record
Kilometer Speed Record.
 
Last updated: May 12, 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 T-Class hydro setting a record, please email Bob and we'll add it to this list.

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