everything about it is bigger and badder and more extensive than you could possibly imagine. dave says imagine driving your car at 200 miles an hour over two and three-foot speed dumps without sprinks or shocks. that s what it feels like to ride this thing. the environment of looking from the outside of a hydroplane, it likes wonderful, graceful vehicle that flying over the water. the truth is the boat is actually beating the snot out of the driver that s inside. david fell in love with racing boats as a teenager. while most kids his age were out riding bicycles. i started out racing flat-bottom boats, because that s what my uncle had done. dave, good-bye. and it was a lot of fun, and it progressed into bigger flat-bottom boats, managed to set a lot of world records and win a lot of championships. from there, of course, it was a natural step to racing hydroplanes. dave soon breaking almost every record in the book. in 2004, he decides to see just
phillips . they lived. they lived. they lived. (dad) we lived. thanks to our subaru. (announcer) love. it s what makes a subaru, a subaru. hydroplanes, they re the fastest boats in the water, flying across the surface at 200 miles per hour. at this speed, when something goes wrong, disaster.
in the blink of an eye, a piece of equipment fails or a driver makes a mistake, they could be 50 feet up in the air. updade down and backwards. of at first glance, this conservatively dressed man might look like a banker rather than a daredev daredevil. but he s been racing hydroplanes for years and he s been in some pretty dramatic crashes. you re traveling over a football field a second. so if you aren t anticipating what what s going to happen, you re likely to crash. they flip through the air as if they weigh nothing, but these boats are 30 feet long, 7,000 pounds with 4,000 horsepower engines. an unlimited hydroplane is the celebration of excess.
can do it too. they have a television. i have a suggestion. bring your family. it s a great family thing. coming up on this wednesday, a doctors giving patients chemothat they didn t even need and didn t have cancer. and the video is horrifying to say the least. the moment a car hydroplanes, slamming right into a state trooper, sending him underneath the car.
in the blink of an eye, a piece of equipment fails or driver makes a mistake and your boat could be 50 feet in the air, upside down and backwards. at first glance, conservatively dressed dave billwalk might look more like a banker than a daredevil. but this champion driver has been racing hydroplanes for years and has been in some pretty dramatic crashes. you re traveling at over a football field per second. so if you aren t anticipating what s going to happen, you re likely to crash. they flip through the air as if they weigh nothing, but these boats are 30 feet long, 7,000 pounds, with 4,000 horsepower engines. a hydroplane is a celebration of success. everything about it is bigger and badder and more extensive