Marble Falls Lakefest 2008 - Day Two

We saw a spectacular crash today, an outboard drag boat flipped completely over at 105 mph. Didn't have the camera rolling so no footage - but it was quite scary as they had to get the divers out to the boat to free him from it as it was flipped over and under water.

Top Fuel Hydroplanes put on quite a show with some very high speed runs, topping out a 236 mph.

Below are badass photos and a video compilation of the day.

Oh and towards the end of the video, you'll get to see our candyass from yesterday (39 mph jetski) vs a Pro Eliminator Drag Boat - they gave him a 22 second head start in the quarter mile before the humiliation kicked off.

Marble Falls Lakefest 2008 - Day One

We got down and dirty in the pits today interviewing the drivers and crews. We found one racer in particular for the "Ace of Spades" who stood out as a true badass. His boat can whoop ass on any other boat here, but since he doesn't have a safety canopy, they made him throttle his boat down. So imbetween autographing a woman's chest (her husband helped) these dudes work on their water rocket and party like rockstars.

So kick some ass tomorrow Ace of Spades - we'll be in the pit with a followup.




some photos from the pits


and heres a video of the final run of the day - we did get to see a 209 MPH run earlier - this one was hardly badass at 188 mph.



oh and today's "you sure are a candyass" award goes to the dude who entered his jetski in the races today and had a top speed of 39 MPH - after 8 runs. I'm not even going to waste bandwidth to show you the pitiful video.

Coming Soon

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