Extreme Sprint Boats: Autocross On Water... Sorta

Anybody seen this before? Totally nuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AskaaAc2M8Q

The crashes are wicked. Pretty amazing that the boats handle that well though.

Been around for a while, I think it started in Australia. Anyone can drive, how'd you like to be the Navigator?

I've seen it a few times on Speed after Nascar season was over.

Looks like it would be a blast.

Yeah, I have no idea how they get them to hook like that, but much like an autox, the spins are pretty spectacular (esp. when they get beached lol)

Oh man, that's just awesome. It has to be Australian, nobody else is that nuts.

They used to have Jet Sprinting on Speedvision. It disappeared after we were blessed with Nasc...um, I mean.....SpeedTV.

Boats with roll gages = badass.

Its like an autocross where the course is half as wide and if you hit a cone you flip over.

I used to watch it on Speed Sunday mornings. That was before I learned about autocross. I considered it the aquatic version of a Rally because the use a driver and navigator.

If you look at the video of the guys flipping the boat back over you can see that they are not even in waist high water, It is hardly 3 ft deep. Seems to me it should be deeper.

Those jet boats can run in VERY shallow water. As you can see they have very little vee to the hull and once they get up to speed and are on top of the water only the jet nozzle is really in the water.

That seems like very expensive racing. That, or every team consists of driver, navigator, and dent puller.

Awesome stuff to watch. I miss speedvision :(

We went and saw an event a little while back. They are vastly entertaining. They go like the hammers, they do!