by
Brett Bayne •
photos by
Jim Davis, Rob Rich and Brad Glidewell
LAKE RACE In the second stop in the 2021 APBA
Offshore National Series, 36 boats battle in 11 classes at LOTO.
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owerboat P1/OPA competitors trekked to Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks for four suspenseful races comprising 11 classes as the
second bout in the APBA Offshore National Series got underway. In addition to 36 OPA competitors, more than 20 Formula One boats joined in on the fun for the 2021 NGK F1 Powerboat Championships (see Page 34). Eight teams came out to battle for the trophy in Super Stock Class, which had been won by Team Allen Lawn Care in Cocoa Beach only a couple of weeks earlier. (Five of the eight boats call the Lake of the Ozarks home.) In this ten-lap race, CMR Roofing driver Eric Belisle and throttleman Shaun Torrente grabbed an early lead, chased by Myrick Coil and Rusty Williams in Performance Boat Center/FASS Fuel Systems and Rob Unnerstall and Casey Boaz in CR Racing. The positioning didn’t change much, if at all, for the duration of the race, with CMR Roofing taking first place, followed by Performance Boat Center/FASS Fuel Systems and CR Racing.
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S P E E D B O A T | August 2021
The Earl & Rose Rand Memorial Lake Race Trophy will be emblazoned with the names of those who have contributed to offshore racing at LOTO. The first names to be memorialized are Bob Morgan, Jeff “JT” Tillman and Keith Holmes.
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