And hairs will rise as the roaring thunder of souped-up airboats at full throttle fills this serene countryside next week with the start of the area’s first airboat drag races. Here, in the ...

"We want to have the Daytona of airboat racing," Belcastro said ... This one should be more reliable than a drag strip in South Florida because it is being built around a standing body of ...

Starks told Jones about the airboat gathering in his ... One of the improvements this year was a real racing “Christmas tree” to signal go for the drag racers. Kreikemeier has been to Thunder ...

Though there are some rescue airboats that do have them, increasing the drag of the boat to make it ... Airboats can go fast. Racing boats can reach speeds of more than 130 miles per hour.