Roaring Thunder Spectators Welcome Boats, Big and Small, to the Ohio River [Corrected 08/13/04]
Evansville Courier & Press › August 13, 2004
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The thunder is back at Thunder on the Ohio, and some spectators at the Evansville event on Saturday were glad to hear the roar of piston-engine racing boats again.
For the first time since 1999, the smaller automobile engine- powered unlimited light boats returned to share this year's Thunder with the larger unlimited hydroplane boats dominated by the whine of turbine engines since the late 1980s.See the full content of this document
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Roaring Thunder Spectators Welcome Boats, Big and Small, to the Ohio River [Corrected 08/13/04]
The Evansville Freedom Festival board decided to take the risky step this year of holding an independent race separate from the unlimited hydroplanes government body, Hydro-Prop Inc., to save $180,000 in costs.
Niel Miller said Hydro-Prop is messing up the sport of hydr...See the full content of this document
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