{"id":593,"date":"2013-11-11T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2013-11-11T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:47:27","slug":"racer-cheats-death-at-130mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/racer-cheats-death-at-130mph\/","title":{"rendered":"racer cheats death at 130mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astonishing moment powerboat racer cheats death at 130mph in spectacular crash on same lake where Bluebird pilot Donald Campbell was killed<\/p>\n<p>    Keith Whittle had just set a new record for Formula 2 class in 200hp boat<br \/>\n    But his boat flipped one and a half times through the air in Lake District<br \/>\n    Hundreds of spectators watched on Friday as Whittle escaped unscathed<br \/>\n    Donald Campbell lost control of his Bluebird on same lake stretch in 1967<\/p>\n<p>By Mark Duell<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2828614195001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-2500511%2FAstonishing-moment-powerboat-racer-cheats-death-130mph-spectacular-crash.html&#038;playerID=2730234011001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAFSL1bg~,CmS1EFtcMWF3qCwIkkoMNkVkOrxR00Hs&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=2828614195001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-2500511%2FAstonishing-moment-powerboat-racer-cheats-death-130mph-spectacular-crash.html&#038;playerID=2730234011001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAFSL1bg~,CmS1EFtcMWF3qCwIkkoMNkVkOrxR00Hs&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Adrenaline junkie Keith Whittle had just set a new record for the Formula 2 class in his 200hp boat named Pepstar when he spectacularly flipped on Coniston Water in the Lake District. His boat somersaulted one a half times through the air before landing top-down on the water, in an accident witnessed by hundreds of spectators on Friday. Mr Whittle escaped unscathed but shaken. It happened on the same stretch of Coniston that claimed the life of speed record ace Donald Campbell, who lost control of his Bluebird at more than 300mph in January 1967. He already held the water speed record of 276mph and was trying to beat it. His boat was named after the car in which his father Sir Malcolm Campbell had set what was then a land speed record of 146mph in 1924. Martin Campbell, who witnessed the crash, said: \u2018Your initial response is hoping the driver gets out and he did but it is still quite shocking when it happens.<br \/>\n\u2018Most drivers carry oxygen but Keith didn\u2019t need it, he managed to get out straight away. It all happened in an instance and he was a bit shaken up.<br \/>\nConiston Power Boat Records Week is the only event in the Powerboat Racing Calendar to bring together all classes of boat.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Noone, chief technical measurer, added: \u2018Keith was trying hard for the record and when you\u2019re right on the edge these things can happen.<br \/>\n\u2018But the safety element has advanced in the past ten years and crashes like this are very survivable. He was a bit shaken and a bit cold but other than that he was fine. \u2018The water conditions were perfect and there were nine records set through the week and Keith had at least two of them.<br \/>\n\u2018The high speed runs are always exciting and you have a mixture of relief and elation &#8211; it was the last run of the week and certainly the most dramatic.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astonishing moment powerboat racer cheats death at 130mph in spectacular crash on same lake where Bluebird pilot Donald Campbell was killed Keith Whittle had just set a new record for Formula 2 class in 200hp boat But his boat flipped one and a half times through the air in Lake &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}