think about what we re doing as we come in. slow your turn! slow your turn! a bit like trying to drive the car when one person has the steering wheel and the other person has the brakes and accelerator. it s a bit of a balancing act between us. the king of shaves is closing in on the front runners with four laps to go. we were catching the leaders at about 1.5 seconds a lap and there was enough time in the race. i mean, we were only about 200, 300 meters behind them. 3.11 seconds and that s almost a second quicker than the race leader. it came across that king shaves got up into second place. and obviously, liz and i, james wife, is standing there thinking, oh, my god, this is amazing. he s doing really well. let s keep our fingers crossed. i knew he would be so thrilled as to how they were doing.
big boats, and my dream ticket to drive british s only class one power boat racing. go, go, go, go! pilots james shepherd and chris are racing king of shaves sponsored by the company of the same name which sells shaving products. powered by twin lamborghinis engines, and probably cost about 2 million pounds to build, $4 million. ceo will king says driving the boat is like racing a ferrari on the water at 150 miles per hour, an intense thrill. and a dangerous one, too. skimming along at these speeds, things can go wrong fast. shepherd has won the honda formula 4 series several years
of the boat. they can barely see each other and communication is impossible. james realizes that chris is still inside the cockpit. i realize that chris hadn t gone. i didn t want to pop my belts and go out for fear of chris then doing the same thing at the same time. as the water levels rise, there s no time to waste. james releases his safety belt and pushes the escape hatch open. a mounted exterior camera has survived the crash and records the desperate scene as james tugs at chris to follow him out. did have a hold on him as we came out of the cockpit and then i let go. after agonizing seconds, james reaches the surface. i was desperate to see that he d come out of the boat because, you know, you can imagine him stuck in a boat and maybe injured and can t get out, whatever. anything could have happened. it was a very high-speed crash.
steering wheel and the other person has the brakes and accelerator. and when you start sliding around corners as we were, it s a bit of a balancing act between us. the king of shaves is closing in on the front runners with four laps to go. we were catching the leaders at about 1.5 seconds a lap and there was enough time in the race. i mean, we were only about 200, 300 meters behind them. 3:4.11 seconds and that s almost a second quicker than the race leader. it came across james wife is standing there thinking, oh, my god, this is amazing. he s doing really well. let s keep our fingers crossed. i knew he would be so thrilled as to how they were doing. the king of shaves makes a final bid for first place, but something doesn t feel right. get in!
drive britain s only class one power boat team. pilots james shepherd and chris are racing king of shaves a super fast catamaran sponsored by the company of the same name which sells shaving products. powered by twin lamborghinis and probably cost about 2 million pounds to build, $4 million. ceo will king says driving the boat is like racing a ferrari on the water at 150 miles per hour, an intense thrill. and a dangerous one, too. skimming along at these speeds, things can go wrong fast. shepherd has won the honda formula 4 series several years running, but it s his first time competing at the british grand prix. your first race in any series, you re keen to make an impression. the fact they re the only british boat in the race amps