If you were in attendance at the 2016 Columbia Cup final race you may have thought Jimmy Shane in the U1 Homestreet Hydro won the race....not the case here's what happened!
After a bittersweet 40 year long sponsorship of Hydro Racing The O'Boy Oberto has retired. It was announced last year at the season-ending San Diego Bayfair race on Mission Bay, that Oberto would no longer be a sponsor of a Hydro Boat.
If you've been in the Tri-Cities for even a few weeks, you will have heard about Boat Races. That magical weekend at the end of July where Pasco and Kennewick become host to a river-side montage of beer, sunburns, partying, and oh yeah, hydro-boat races...
4 Boats and 5 drivers will be making rooster tails this weekend on the Columbia River near the blue bridge on Friday, May 29th. The testing will happen from 9:00 am to 5 pm.
97 Rock is getting ready just as your are for the 47th running of the Columbia Cup. Friday July 27th - Sunday July 29th the hydro's will be on the water and the Columbia Basin's finest will be showing some skin all weekend long.