Tuesday 31st May 2011

PH Competition: Become A Powerboat Racer

Your chance to win a four-day tuition course to become a P1 Powerboat racer...and have a lot of fun in the process

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Continuing our theme of liking trains, planes and automobiles, we are pleased to offer our latest competition featuring, err, boats. Well, we like boats, too, so that's okay in our book. They have an engine after all, and go rather fast...

This competition is a bit special and, if we're honest, we'd rather keep it for ourselves. Sadly we have to give it away and our loss is your gain...unless you don't enter of course!

We're offering the chance to 'take the helm' of a 28ft, 250hp Panther P1 SuperStock powerboat, the craft that is at the centre of the 2012 P1 SuperStock Championship, for an experience you just can't get even in the fastest car on the most famous circuit.

If that's not enough, we are also offering the chance to be trained by multiple powerboat champion Neil Holmes, who will teach you all about the secrets of handling a powerful race boat in open waters...at over 60mph. These boats are fast, and with an open cockpit it feels even faster; we guarantee that you will not have experienced anything like this before (unless you already own one of course).

By the end of the intensive four-day powerboat course you will also have your RYA competence licence - and that means you will be ready to enter one of the world's most exciting forms of motorsport just in time for the 2012 P1 SuperStock Championship.

All right, so you'll need to buy your own boat to race, but just telling people down the pub that you're a qualified powerboat racer should be enough for most of us...an experience enhanced if you wear one of those jaunty sailors hats all the time.

To be in with a chance of winning, simply apply here.

The closing date is 23rd September and you can read applicable terms and conditions here

Note: The prize will cover four days and, while we cannot confirm the exact date, the course will take place in September 2011. Please ensure you are able to attend before entering.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Marvellous, it's just like in 'Bullseye' where some low rent types from a land locked county win a speedboat.

[soad]

That's one big prize...experience wise!!!

[Moonloops]

Cracking prize

[Waugh-terfall]

Definitely entering that! I'm trying to decide what to write in the 'Why I want to be a powerboat racer' box, will they accept 'Scantilly clad boat pit girls, adrenaline and stuff.'?

[ellisd82]

Waugh-terfall said:

Definitely entering that! I'm trying to decide what to write in the 'Why I want to be a powerboat racer' box, will they accept 'Scantilly clad boat pit girls, adrenaline and stuff.'?

You mean for this reason

[Waugh-terfall]

ellisd82 said:

Waugh-terfall said:

Definitely entering that! I'm trying to decide what to write in the 'Why I want to be a powerboat racer' box, will they accept 'Scantilly clad boat pit girls, adrenaline and stuff.'?

You mean for this reason

Affirmative.

[Gizmo!]

Not mentioned in this article: the way that powerboat racers frequently end up p!ssing blood after races due to the pummelling their kidneys get, and the mild case of death that can result from minor mistakes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok5LH8RqrV4 just as an example...

[fwaggie]

Pah, if I die the girls will still love me and want me.

It's a win-win situation.

<entered>

Actually it's a horrible competition. Exploiting women, weeing blood, spitting blood, dying, no point in anyone else entering it at all.

[mybrainhurts]

Why do you need tuition for this..?

All you have to do is full throttle, point it and shout Get out of my way, peasants...

How hard is that...?

[oxfordbiker]

If the closing date is 23 Sept and given the fact that 'while we cannot confirm the exact date, the course will take place in September 2011. Please ensure you are able to attend before entering.' - I imagine this means you need to keep w/c 26th September free?

[Garlick]

I think it's very likely to roll into October really, they just need to wait for the season to end

[mybrainhurts]

Better warn the winner about icebergs, then...one Titanic is enough.

[markmullen]

Awesome, applied!

[Waugh-terfall]

Gizmo! said:

Not mentioned in this article: the way that powerboat racers frequently end up p!ssing blood after races due to the pummelling their kidneys get...

Meh, would make a change from it coming from my nose...

[Moonloops]

ellisd82 said:

Waugh-terfall said:

Definitely entering that! I'm trying to decide what to write in the 'Why I want to be a powerboat racer' box, will they accept 'Scantilly clad boat pit girls, adrenaline and stuff.'?

You mean for this reason

Look at the knees sand or carpet burns ?

[fwaggie]

Moonloops said:

Look at the knees sand or carpet burns ?

Does it make any difference?

I would.

[maser_spyder]

Moonloops said:

Look at the knees sand or carpet burns ?

The one on the left was sand.

The third from left was carpet, specifically on the stairs.

The one on the right was over the bonnet of a Ford Escort in the car park.

[/fantasy]

[Moonloops]

Garlick can we just win a weekend with the wimmin

[moresauce]

The driver in the photographs is the very good and very experienced Neil Holmes who has competed at very high level and is a throughly good bloke to boot!

A bit of P1 fun is a great prize and should be VERY enjoyable for whoever wins, good luck to one and all!

[RB Will]

Gizmo! said:

Not mentioned in this article: the way that powerboat racers frequently end up p!ssing blood after races due to the pummelling their kidneys get, and the mild case of death that can result from minor mistakes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok5LH8RqrV4 just as an example...

That is a bad example as it is a drag boat doing 200+mph and a P1 powerboat does about 60mph apparently. Still not nice to crash but somewhat less severe. The pissing blood may still be relevant however.