H1 Unlimited Hydroplane Series » Team RedDOT Will Miss Bayfair

Mike Jones, co-owner of the 9 Team RedDOT with wife Lori, has informed H1 that damage sustained during Friday qualifying for the 2013 Coeur d’Alene Diamond Cup will keep  the team from making the trip to the season ender on San Diego’s Mission Bay September 13-15.

Driver Jon Zimmerman was just ¾ of a lap into his qualifying effort in the 9 Fox Plumbing presents Team RedDOT powered by Les Schwab when he told the crew he had a vibration and was shutting down.  The vibration turned out to be serious, as the propeller had lost one of its three blades with the resulting vibration doing extensive damage to the hull.  More; H1 Unlimited Hydroplane Series » Team RedDOT Will Miss Bayfair

H1 Unlimited Hydroplane Series » Jimmy Shane is Diamond Cup Champion

The juggernaut that is Jimmy Shane in the 5 Graham Trucking continued to roll – all the way to the top of the podium at the 2013 Coeur d’Alene Diamond cup.

 

Left to right – Kip Brown, Jimmy Shane, Steve David
Photo by Chris Denslow – H1

 

The 28 year old new dad from Havre de Grace,  Maryland made it two wins in a row, following up his win at the Albert Lee Cup at Seattle Seafai r in early August with a dramatic victory in the Diamond Cup Championship Final as Unlimited Hydroplanes returned to Coeur d’Alene after an absence of 45 years.

 

Shane used the inside advantage – secured before the start – to hold off a challenge from J. Michael Kelly in the 37 Miss Beacon Plumbing.  After a review of the start, Kelly was ruled to have jumped the start clock.  That set the Beacon driver back from second place to fifth and moved Steve David up to third in the 1 Oh Boy! Oberto.