mike
mike Reader
1/12/11 10:24 p.m.

Check this out:

sample video of Jetsprint racing

How I've never heard of this before, i have no clue. There's plenty of amazing video on Youtube.

One more:

one more video of Jetsprint racing

oldsaw
oldsaw SuperDork
1/12/11 10:44 p.m.

Jetsprints were an occasional offering on the SpeedVision, the precursor to SpeedTV. Always great fun!

It's like a water-borne combination of autocrossing and rallying with high-HP V8's spewing high volume water plumes for motive power; way cool.

Thanks for the links!

Jay_W
Jay_W HalfDork
1/13/11 12:00 a.m.

It's way more fun to watch than most motorsport, too. From a car guy standpoint, you keep expecting the thing to lift or brake or something to make that 90 left, but no, 80 MPH right on through the corner. I heard at the last event I spectated that they were pulling 9G...

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
1/13/11 5:51 a.m.

Gotta love boats with roll cages.

914Driver
914Driver SuperDork
1/13/11 5:52 a.m.

I could never be a navigator!

townsend7
townsend7 Reader
1/13/11 7:43 a.m.

Sprint cars on water.

cwh
cwh SuperDork
1/13/11 7:49 a.m.

I love the sounds of hot boats.

bravenrace
bravenrace SuperDork
1/13/11 8:00 a.m.

In reply to mike:

I used to love watching those races on Speedvision. I was always amazed at how flat and quick they turned.

EricM
EricM Dork
1/13/11 11:59 a.m.

Vrrrroooom!

Smack35
Smack35 Reader
1/13/11 5:44 p.m.

GoPro used an onboard video for their commercials. The guy gets it wrong and flips into a corner station.

Now only if they found bodies of water wide enough to have multiple boats...

Steven

madpanda
madpanda New Reader
1/13/11 9:49 p.m.

Wow, I'm not going to describe a car that can't handle as a "boat" ever again. Those things are awesome.

RedS13Coupe
RedS13Coupe Reader
1/13/11 10:05 p.m.

Not a big boat guy.... but anyone who can spin theirs out is OK by me.

MrJoshua
MrJoshua SuperDork
1/13/11 10:34 p.m.

I love the onboard cam! It's like you stuck a camera on the side of a shifter kart on a foggy day and played the recording back at double speed.

TuffWork
TuffWork New Reader
1/14/11 5:48 p.m.

That's pretty awesome. Showed some of my drinking buddies last night and they were all dumbfounded.

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