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The first race held on the Detroit River was the Gold Cup, in 1916. 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.
APBA Gold Cup, an annual hydroplane racing cup; UAW-GM Spirit of Detroit Hydrofest, an annual hydroplane racing cup on the Detroit River, formerly known as the Gold Cup; HAPO Gold Cup, an H1 Unlimited hydroplane boat race held each July on the Columbia River in Columbia Park, Tri-Cities, Washington
Detroit, MI 2000 Dave Villwock (4) U-1 Miss Budweiser Detroit, MI 2001 Michael Hanson U-9 Jones Racing (Tubby's Subs) Detroit, MI 2002 Dave Villwock (5) U-1 Miss Budweiser Detroit, MI 2003 Mitch Evans U-3 Miss Fox Hills Detroit, MI 2004 Nate Brown U-10 Miss DYC Detroit, MI 2005 Terry Troxell: U-13 Miss Al Deeby Dodge Detroit, MI 2006 Jean Theoret
The Gold Cup is a Grade 3 thoroughbred horse race run over 3200m at Greyville Racecourse in Durban, South Africa. The first running of the race took place in 1920 however it was not run in 1942. The race is considered "Africa’s premier marathon for long-distance runners."
For nearly a decade, Jenelle David, 44, of Grosse Pointe, joined her close friend to kayak once a week on the Detroit River through spring, summer and fall. Groups of mostly women also paddled the ...
The Miss Detroit hydroplane, piloted by Jack Beebe, won the 1915 American Power Boat Association Gold Cup on Manhasset Bay, outside of New York City.As a result of the victory, Detroit Michigan won the right to host the Gold Cup race the following year (1916), thus thrusting the City of Detroit and the Detroit River into Gold Cup hydroplane racing and making Detroit a major venue for the sport.
Sep. 2—The 68th Gold Cup Race of Champions begins Wednesday, Sept, 7 at the Marysville Raceway Park's sister track, Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico. The four-day event will feature the world's ...
The freighter, longer than two football fields and loaded with about 20,000 metric tons of rock salt, was christened in 2022 and was the first large bulk carrier built on the Great Lakes since 1981.