Editor’s Note: For all the weekend’s Columbia Cup racing action, visit tricityherald.com. Darrell and Vanessa Strong are in year three of Strong Racing’s four-year plan, and the Tri-Citians have no ...

Thousands flocked to Columbia Park on Saturday to watch H1 Unlimited hydroplane racing amid cool and hazy weather. The second day of the 2024 Tri-Cities Water Follies Apollo Columbia Cup and STCU Over ...

Aaron Stephens has a name for the Tri-Cities when it comes to boat racing: Hydrotown. The race director for the American Power Boat Association’s Apollo Gold Cup race that is rapidly approaching this ...

After a year’s absence, Unlimited Hydroplane racing will return to Mission Bay in September. And, if things go right, seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson might celebrate his 50 th birthday on ...

The Unlimited Hydroplane races, almost an annual event on Mission Bay since 1964, have been canceled for 2023, casting the future of the event into doubt. Citing increased production costs and ...

The final race of the 2024 H1 Unlimited hydroplane series is this coming weekend, and it’s a big one. The American Power Boat Association’s Gold Cup — unlimited hydroplane racing’s Super Bowl — kicks ...

Don’t know if anyone keeps these kind of records, but the eight unlimited hydroplanes expected to be in Lampson Pits on Friday has to be an all-time high for what has become the annual Spring Training ...

Tri-City Water Follies, the undisputed king of the Mid-Columbia summer calendar, is seeking a new title sponsor to shore up its bottom line two years after HAPO Credit Union stepped out of the role.

The oldest trophy in American motorsports will be on the line this summer when the unlimited hydroplanes race on Lake Washington. The Gold Cup, the biggest trophy in boat racing, will return to ...

Those wandering around the Stan Sayres pits Saturday might have noticed something not normally seen at the HomeStreet Bank Cup at Seafair. Empty space. Normally, just about every available inch is ...

For many years the joke at Seattle’s Seafair has been: the Blue Angels are performing, and a boat race broke out. The unlimited hydroplane circuit was struggling. Race sites dwindled, and sponsors ...

Jimmy Shane in the U-1 Miss Homestreet Bank takes the checker flag during heat 5 of the Columbia Cup unlimited hydroplane race on the Columbia River in Kennewick in 2022. Bob Brawdy ...