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The APBA Gold Cup (originally known simply as the Gold Cup, a speedboat race) is an American hydroplane boat race, named for the American Power Boat Association. It is now run as part of the H1 Unlimited season. [1] First run in 1904, it is the oldest trophy in motorsports. [2]
The community-owned Miss Detroit won the Gold Cup in 1915 on Manhasset Bay, outside of New York City, and earned the right to defend it the following year on home waters. Miss Detroit was a single-step hydroplane, equipped with a 250-horsepower Sterling engine.
At that time, the Gold Cup was run at the home of the winner, so for 1951, the Gold Cup was coming to Seattle. The race was added to the Seafair festival. [ 1 ] When the Gold Cup left Seattle for Detroit in 1955, local officials decided to hold a race of their own, and the Seafair Cup was born.
It had been disbanded in 1922 in favor of the newly introduced "Gold Cup Class." [1] The world's first sanctioned unlimited hydroplane race was held 122 years ago in 1903 in Ireland at Queenstown, and was very modest by later race standards. That race was won by Dorothy Levitt, driving an 11-meter (35 ft) boat, powered by a 56-kilowatt (75 hp ...
The American Power Boat Association’s Gold Cup — unlimited hydroplane racing’s Super Bowl — kicks off Friday in San Diego. ... with the Gold Cup final set to start at 4:05 p.m., Sunday, in ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... APBA Gold Cup (1969-1970, 1987, 1989, ... Past San Diego Unlimited Hydroplane Champions [1] Year Event Boat ...
Other races are the Madison Regatta on June 30-July 2; Seattle will have the APBA Gold Cup on Aug. 4-6; and the San Diego Bayfair will be run Sept. 15-17. Junior hockey
This weekend marks the exact middle of the 2024 H1 Unlimited hydroplane season as the Apollo Columbia Cup takes place in the Tri-Cities. Columbia Cup race director Aaron Stephens said last week ...