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Our race events combine high-speed, free-to-watch sport and family entertainment, attracting hundreds of thousands of spectators and millions of television viewers around the world, also playing a valuable role as an effective destination marketing tool. By creating high caliber events, we generate a significant level of inward economic investment at host venues, together with the commercial platform created for sponsors, partners and the wider marine industry.

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This increasingly important brand within the P1 family encompasses the APBA offshore national championship series, with P1 having been granted by the APBA exclusive worldwide rights to film and distribute its offshore events for the next five years. At all race events, P1 will produce a one-hour television highlights show, featuring Class 1 racing and other APBA classes.

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Attracting a younger demographic, P1 Jetcross is considered by many to be the equivalent of motocross on water, with custom designed race hulls and highly tuned engines to power themselves around close-to-shore technical courses.

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When competitors are racing with the same boat, same engine, and same performance the only difference between winning and losing is the crew. P1 SuperStock lets the pilots battle it out on the water through every turn and every wave jump. It’s an acid test of a team’s ability to command the boat in challenging conditions.

Class One racing is the highest class of powerboat racing in the world where boats can reach speeds in excess of 160mph, attracting teams from the United States, Dubai and Australia. Powerboat P1 promotes the APBA Offshore Championship, a six-venue, multiclass race series.

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P1 is a relatively new concept that is growing fast in the nautical world. Boats rush at high speeds across the water and compete against other boats to win world championships and grands prix. Even if it is gaining new fans worldwide, it is still a niche sport.

For starters, the Formula 1 Powerboat World Championship (known as F1) is a motorboat racing competition for powerboats. It is organized by the Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM) and often referred to as F1H2O. It shares the title of F1 similar to Formula one car racing. This is because each race lasts 45 minutes following a circuit in a stretch of water.

The history of Formula 1 Powerboat

The P1 world began in 2003 when it was first staged in Italy. Since, it has seen more than 200 events in almost 20 countries. In 2010, the Powerboat P1 industry decided to refocus its business aim.

They wanted to build the sport from the bottom up instead of the other way around. This meant more amateur riders could join races and progress into more challenging competitions.

This was a huge success P1 AquaX was launched in the UK in 2011  and in the USA the following year. Since, the world of P1 racing has expanded and in 2017 it staged its first SuperStock World Championship event in India.

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What is the difference between P1 Superstock and P1 AquaX?

Both are sports that combine  high performance, adrenaline and speed  and have international championships. However, the main difference is the vessel.  P1 AquaX is an endurance jet-ski championship where competitors use a sit-down craft. They use a jet ski and classes are split into three categories: 200hp, 250hp and 300hp.

On the other side, P1 Superstock  races on identical production boats: the stunning  P1 Panther . There are two classes that compete in five Grand Prix of the Sea events every season. These races are close to shore, meaning the public can watch the racers from shore.

Due to the necessity of the powerboats to reach high speeds, neither are offshore powerboat racing competitions. There are clearly defined courses near the coast.  Both are part of the Powerboat P1  and are quickly growing attracting more experienced racers in a new style of racing.

How fast do Powerboat P1 competitors go?

They can go very fast. In the P1 Superstock category, boats reach 250km/h or 135 nautical miles. They are powered by a Mercury Marine V6 that generates over 400 horsepower at 10,500 rpm. This engine is very powerful, and it can propel boats to 100km/h (62 mph) in less than 2 seconds.

On the other hand, competitors in the P1AquaX category reach a maximum speed of 111km/h (70 mph).  

P1 boats: how are they? 

P1 AquaX are jet skis. However, the P1 Superstock category uses tunnel hull catamarans that go at high speeds and are exceptionally easy to maneuver. The motor boats weigh around 390 kg (860 pounds) and are 6 meters (20 fts) long. The tunnel hull creates aerodynamic due to a wing that is formed by the deck under the surface of the hull. 

F1 boats have not changed that much in appearance since the event started, but safety has improved dramatically. At first, racers would compete in an open-cockpit plywood boat. Now, there is a hard composite cockpit capsule that breaks away from the rest of the boat in the case of a crash. Also, harnesses now offer protection to drivers of the sport. This prevents them from harm in the case of major crashes. 

In the late 1990s, the boat builder DAC introduced an airbag in the cockpit. This goes behind the driver, and it prevents the cockpit from submerging if the boat flips. All these changes in safety encompass the evolution of lighter and stronger composite hills that minimise the hazards of power boat racing. 

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The Excitement of Running a P1 Offshore Race Boat

• By Charles Plueddeman
• November 16, 2023

In this age of 70 mph pontoons , 90 mph center-consoles and 150 mph sport cats, it’s pretty easy to experience eye-popping velocity on the water. So, there you are, the wind flapping your cheeks as you hold that throttle to the stop, one watering eye on the speedo as you bump the trim hoping to squeeze out the last bit of speed it will take to be the first boat to the poker-run card pickup. Maybe you even imagine that’s Reggie Fountain , Steve Curtis or Shaun Torrente at the helm of the boat you are pursuing, and instead of a king of hearts, there’s a big trophy waiting at the finish line. Well, dream on, Speed Racer. You’re going fast, but you are not racing, and your production-built motorboat is no race boat.

Steve Curtis throttles a real race boat. The Victory catamaran Huski Chocolate carried Curtis and drivers Travis Pastrana and Brit Lilly to the 2022 UIM Class 1 championship in the Powerboat P1 Offshore series. Last summer, we met Curtis and this boat, now rechristened Huski Ice Spritz, at the Mercury Racing Midwest Challenge in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the fourth event on the five-race 2023 P1 schedule. The boat is owned by SVEA Racing Inc., based in Stuart, Florida, regarded as the benchmark in professionalism and experience in Class 1 and led by technical director Gary Stray, director of operations Scott Colton and crew chief Patrick Cleaveland.

Curtis, a 59-year-old Englishman and the son of Cougar Powerboats founder and racing catamaran innovator Clive Curtis, claimed his first Class 1 world championship in 1985 in Key West when he was 21 years old. In his career, Curtis has throttled more than 20 world champions. Who would be better to show us under the cowl of a Class 1 race boat than the acknowledged master of throttling racing cats?

Class 1 is the premier category of international offshore powerboat racing. A P1 Offshore event can include a number of classes, but only the Class 1 Championship is sanctioned by the UIM (Union Internationale Motonautique), the world governing body for all ­powerboating activities. Basic rules for Class 1 dictate a minimum boat length overall of 12 meters (about 39 feet) and a minimum weight of 5,400 kilograms (just over 11,900 pounds). There have been seven boats in the Class 1 field in 2023, ranging in length from the 43-foot Skater Monster Energy/MCON to the 51-foot Mystic dfYoung. The Huski Ice Spritz/SVEA Victory is 47 feet length overall, with a running surface of 41.5 feet, according to Curtis, and a 12-foot beam. Curtis explains that the bigger boats often have an advantage in rough conditions, but the smaller boats can be nimbler in a current on flatter water in a tight, multiturn closed course—the 5-mile course at Sheboygan had 10 turns.

“Courses have become smaller to make the event more spectator-­friendly,” Curtis says. “We used to run 40-mile laps and 200-mile races.”

The age of the Class 1 fleet is also surprising. Huski Ice Spritz/SVEA was built in 2007 by the Victory team in Dubai to a ­Michael Peters design.

“The boat has been rebuilt and repowered a number of times,” Curtis says. “I believe it was originally powered by Lamborghini V-12 engines. The boat has been crashed and repaired. The entire deck has been replaced, and the running surface adjusted as the engine package has changed.”

Carbon, Of Course

The overall theme of a race boat is that every element is functional, and this is the key difference between Huski Ice Spritz and your go-fast rig. Speed and safety are all that matter. The hull and deck are laid up with a combination of carbon fiber and Kevlar composite, with foam coring of various density. Bulkheads are carbon fiber, molded in a combination of triangulation and U-channel shape, and bonded within the hull. Each sponson has a pair of steps that are about 1.5 inches deep and a single strake. The tunnel between the sponsons is designed to trap and compress air, which lifts the boat at speed. The tunnel is about 33 inches deep at the bow but only 22 inches deep at the transom.

A V-hull boat could run in Class 1, but the catamaran offers a significant advantage, according to Randy Scism, who helped establish the Victory team as a force in offshore racing before returning to the United States in 1998 to start performance boatbuilder Marine Technologies Inc.

“A comparable V-hull boat will be 20 to 30 mph slower at top speed,” says Scism, who designed the 48-foot MTI Class 1 cat ­XInsurance/Good Boy ­Vodka. “In some conditions, it might corner better, but it could never make up the difference in total lap time. The air cushion under a cat can carry 30 to 35 percent of the boat’s weight, so the bottom is not even touching small waves and chop.”

Builders seek to produce a boat that is significantly below the class minimum-weight specification. This allows each team to make weight using lead ballast—water ballast is not allowed—that can be positioned right on the stringers to keep the center of gravity as low as possible to enhance handling and help trim the boat. Weight, either lead bars or bags of lead shot, can be placed aft to lift the bow in calm conditions or forward to hold the bow down in rough water. Fuel tanks are located directly on the boat’s center of balance so that balance does not change as fuel is consumed. At race venues, a crane fitted with a scale lifts the Class 1 boats from the trailer to the water; this way, each boat is weighed every time it goes in and comes out of the water to prevent cheating.

At Class 1 speeds, aerodynamics becomes critical. The boats literally fly over the water, and the deck is flush with the top of each sponson. The enclosed cockpit is a teardrop blister, hatch latches and cleats are carefully recessed and faired, and air intake is accomplished with low-drag NACA ducts. When conditions are ideal, these huge boats appear to levitate with a grace that belies the brutal thrust required to reach speeds that can exceed 160 mph on the open ocean.

Prescribed Power

There are no surprises below the engine hatches of a Class 1 boat. Since P1 led a revival of the class in 2019, the Mercury Racing 1100 Competition engine has been standard power, a spec engine for the class. The 9.0-liter V-8 engine features Mercury Racing QC4 quad-valve cylinder heads and is boosted by twin turbochargers. Power output is 1,100 hp and 1,100 lb.-ft. of torque per engine on 93-octane pump gasoline. Each big V-8 turns 6,000 to 6,500 rpm. The transmission is the stout model designed for the Mercury Racing 1750 engine with a stronger input shaft and ­internal components.

“Before the switch to the Merc 1100, we were running engines making 1,850 to 2,000 hp at 7,500 rpm,” Curtis says, “and top speeds pushed 190 mph. Those engines needed a rebuild after each race.”

The point of a specified engine for the class is to reduce cost and ensure power parity among teams with unequal resources. With that in mind, the engines are tightly controlled. Teams are not allowed to make any adjustments or modifications to the engines. With the exception of the valve covers, the engines are sealed with special fasteners. At the beginning of each race weekend, the Mercury Racing support team delivers propulsion control modules (PCM) to each team. The PCM units are painted bright ­yellow so they are easy to identify. ­Mercury ­Racing also installs a data logger on each engine.

“After every practice and ­every race, we download the data to make sure it makes sense and that nobody has tweaked on the engines and turned the power up,” says Steve Wynveen, Mercury Racing manager of development engineering. “The idea of Class 1 now is that winning is dependent on driving and boat setup, not on who has the most money to throw at an engine.”

The expectation is that if teams don’t abuse these engines by constantly banging into the rev limiter, each can last the season with just basic maintenance. Teams will put between two and three hours of run time on the engines at each race weekend. Teams are free to install their own PCM for testing between races.

The Huski Ice Spritz/SVEA team engineered a number of quick-disconnect fittings that allow it to remove an engine in about 20 minutes, according to Curtis. This team pulls its engines after each race for maintenance and inspects the bilge and engine mounts below the engines. Typical maintenance includes an oil and filter change, checking the valve lash and adjusting with shims, a compression and leak-down test, checking the turbocharger ­waste-gate adjustment, and ­torquing all fasteners and clamps.

Six of the boats in this Class 1 fleet use surface drives based on a BPM model to put power to the water. The Italian drive only articulates in the vertical plane, which provides a limited range of trim, generally less than 15 degrees or, according to Curtis, about 1.5 inches at the propeller. The prop is located about 58 inches abaft the transom. A drop box located on the exterior of the transom allows teams to quickly change gear ratios to best match engine torque to the prevailing conditions. Curtis explains that on today’s short courses, ­acceleration out of turns is often more important than top speed. Teams using a surface drive are limited to three prop sets but have unlimited gear ratios. Steering is accomplished by a center-mounted rudder—a knife-sharp polished stainless Italian Flexitab model on Huski Ice Spritz—and teams can change rudders based on water conditions.

A sterndrive is also permitted in Class 1, but if the sterndrive can steer, the boat is not allowed to use a rudder. The MTI XInsurance/Good Boy Vodka boat is rigged with modified Mercury Racing M6 sterndrives. Trim is retained, but the skegs are cut off and steering is locked. The boat is equipped with a rudder. Teams running sterndrives are allowed an unlimited number of propellers.

“The problem with trying to steer these boats with the sterndrives is that when you turn the drive, one prop is pushed into water and the other into the air coming through the tunnel,” Scism says. “The prop in the air loses thrust. You want to keep both props centered behind the sponsons. I prefer to use the M6 drives for the added trim authority. That drive is plenty rugged for these engines.”

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Curtis throttles with his right hand gripping a pair of Mercury Zero Effort controls topped with red plastic knobs molded to the shape of his hand. To his left is a fixed, molded grip with radio/intercom control buttons, trim control, and a button to change the screen display. Curtis can communicate with his team using VHF and UHF radios, and a cellular connection. Below is a pair of Mercury ignition keys, which we were surprised to see.

“When we went to the standard Merc 1100 engines, we wanted to retain the entire stock wiring harness to prevent any sort of tampering,” Curtis says. “So, there are the keys, just like on your fishing boat. It was the ­easiest solution.”

Facing Curtis are a pair of Livorsi turbocharger boost gauges, a Livorsi trim indicator, and a multifunction display usually showing tachometers. In the center of the dash is a Garmin MFD split between navigation and a rearview camera. The driver sits before a quick-release steering wheel with a lap counter on top of the dash, which will also display a yellow-and-red flag signal from race control.

I wish I could describe the ­sensation of driving Huski Ice Spritz at speed while looking through the slit of a windscreen. But as it turns out, there is not enough liability coverage or legal cover to ever make that happen. Scism says MTI will build you a new 48 Race model to Class 1 specs, with a price tag of $2.2 million to $2.4 million with power. A $500,000 budget will cover a bare-bones Class 1 team for a season, Curtis says, with a well-financed team spending more than $1.5 million. SVEA Racing Inc. brings a crew of 10 to each race with a 70-foot race trailer, a tilting boat trailer and its Kenworth hauler, and a world-champion throttleman. They are not going to a poker run.

Safety First

When Steve Curtis won his first Class 1 championship, he was standing in an open cockpit. “There was very little concern for safety in those boats,” Curtis says. “If you stuffed the boat, it was very likely you’d be killed.”

Today the driver and throttle work in an enclosed cockpit that is all business. This is not your pleasure boat—there is no Alcantara upholstery, no bass-pumping audio system, and no LED-illuminated drink holders. Cockpit entry is through a hatch secured with four sliding bolts like a bank vault. In Huski Ice Spritz, Curtis throttles from the port seat, and the driver is at the wheel to starboard. Deep bucket seats have 2 inches of suspension travel, and the crew is strapped securely in place. “During a race, it can actually get rather violent in here,” Curtis says. “It’s not very noisy, but there is a lot of vibration, even in smooth water, because the boat is so rigid. We can feel pretty beat up after a race.”

A cage of carbon channels surrounds the cockpit, which Curtis says is backed by a very thick bulkhead. Crush zones around the cockpit are designed to absorb energy on impact. The interior is raw and black, with no thought of cosmetics. The forward portion of the cockpit structure is formed by a ¾-inch-thick polycarbonate shield modeled after a fighter-jet canopy. The clear portion is minimized for further crew protection. There’s an emergency escape hatch in the floor for egress if the boat flips. The driver and throttle have a 10-minute emergency air supply.

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Powerboat P1 And Mercury Racing To Continue Class 1 Power Pairing

Since 2017, twin quad-cam four-valve turbocharged Mercury Racing 1100 Comp engines have been the official spec powerplants for teams competing in the Union International Motonautique Class 1 World Championship Series produced by Powerboat P1 . That relationship will continue for the five-event Class 1 series as well as the American Power Boat Association -sanctioned Race World Offshore Key West World Championships in November.

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The Powerboat P1 group is expecting five to six teams at each event this season, including the second-year Monster Energy/M CON team, which runs a 43-foot catamaran from Skater Powerboats and finished four overall in the Class 1 series in 2023.

“In our inaugural season in Class 1, Mercury Racing provided a great product and first-class race support,” said Tyler Miller, the owner and throttleman of the Monster Energy/M CON team. “Through our initial trials and tribulations being new to the class, the Mercury Racing team assisted without hesitation to bring our program as well as the entire Class 1 program to the top, providing heart-pounding racing to all fans and spectators.

“It has been our pleasure to work with Mercury Racing,” he continued. “We are looking forward to another amazing season with the 1100 Comp platform and the amazing team behind us that the engine company provides.”

The director of category for Mercury Racing and former director of engineering for the Fond du Lac, Wis., company Jeff Broman said he is looking forward to the upcoming Class 1 season as the Mercury Racing tech support will have a heavy presence in the pits and in the P1 Offshore race villages.

“Partnering with P1 allows Mercury Racing to share our passion for wide-open competition with race teams and fans around the world,” he explained in a Powerboat P1 press release. “We’re committed to providing the highest power and performance on the water and nothing puts that to the test like the demanding conditions of offshore racing.”

Added Powerboat P1 chief executive officer Azam Rangoonwala, “Our partnership with Mercury Racing has expanded each year with new areas of collaboration and mutual business development.”

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Former Visit St. Pete/Clearwater official will lead Powerboat P1 U.S. operations

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Longtime Pinellas County tourism and sports executive Tim Ramsberger has taken over U.S. operations of international marine motorsport promoter Powerboat P1 Management, which hosts the Powerboat Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.

The United Kingdom-based Powerboat P1 announced on Wednesday Ramsberger will work as president and chief executive of its United States operation. Ramsberger served as chief operating officer of Visit St. Pete/Clearwater since 2016 and stepped down from the agency on Sept. 3.

“I was approached about this opportunity and the more I looked at it the more I felt it was something that really excited me,” Ramsberger said. “It’s something that I felt would really bode well to use the experience and skill set that I have developed over the past several years doing sports and events.”

Ramsberger departs Visit St. Pete/Clearwater, Pinellas County’s tourism agency, as the destination is not only rebounding from the coronavirus pandemic but breaking records. Pinellas collected $8.27 million in tourist development tax in June, which is a 46 percent increase from June 2019, a record setting year.

Visit St. Pete/Clearwater CEO and President Steve Hayes said staff is absorbing duties of Ramsberger’s former position until the agency can hire a new COO.

Ramsberger, who will work remotely from his home in Treasure Island, will be responsible for running Poweboat P1′s commercial actives, offshore racing and Aquax jet ski events, and digital activities. That includes the Powerboat Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, which took place earlier this month near the St. Pete Pier following years running in St. Pete Beach.

“I think it’s got great potential, it’s a near perfect lifestyle event for our destination because it combines the beauty of our waterfront, it’s great for television, it’s great for spectators, it’s fun, it’s fast, it’s exciting,” he said of the St. Pete race.

Prior to his work with Visit St. Pete/Clearwater, Ramsberger spent a decade leading the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. He also worked for Disney Sports, FIFA World Cup, Olympic Organizing Committee, Andretti Sports Marketing and Indy Car.

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P1 SuperStock is raced at a national level, with the winners qualifying for the right to race in the Continental and World Championship, with the inaugural World Championship to be held in 2015. Tight race courses and equal boats present a high speed racing environment with constantly changing conditions and spectacularly close races. More Info

Race Team Sponsorship

P1 Superstock racing is the next generation of motorsport. Internationally appealing and rapidly growing in the USA due to the high level of intensity and excitement, this sport offers a great opportunity for generating brand recognition at events, in print, on television, on the internet, and through social media channels. More Info

The races are held nearshore on tight race courses using equal boats at multiple venues throughout the USA and international locations. More than just a race, this is a weekend long event providing spectacular viewing and attracting thousands of spectators and motorsports enthusiasts to each location and hundreds of thousands of viewers on television and internet. More Info

Race Boats - P1 Panther

The 28ft P1 Panther sport racing boats and Evenrude 250HO ETEC engines are kept equal, to provide for tight races propeling the sleek machines at speeds of up to 70mph. More Info

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May 14, 2024

Powerboat P1, the international marine motorsport promoter, is making a significant move into live television coverage of its racing by entering into a partnership MAVTV. Today’s announcement comes with final preparations underway for P1’s opening race event of the season this weekend on Florida’s Atlantic coast.

The two-year deal will get underway with MAVTV broadcasting live coverage of the UIM Class 1 World Championship race on Sunday, May 19. The five-event series, which sees the 160mph race boats competing in Missouri, Wisconsin and Florida, will receive live and highlights coverage globally across the entire MAVTV media platform over the next five months. Programming will also include Class 1, P1 Offshore and P1 AquaX highlights shows, together with a two-hour live program in October featuring Class 1 and AquaX jet ski racing in St. Petersburg on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

In October 2020 the UIM, the world governing body of powerboat racing, assigned to Powerboat P1 the international rights to Class 1 offshore racing in an exclusive ten-year agreement.

“It’s clear that millions of fans around the world are loving the dramatic, exhilarating action and diverse marine motorsport offering and our new agreement with MAVTV incorporating live coverage will significantly enhance our broadcast package," said P1 CEO Azam Rangoonwala . "By growing the US and international television audiences and attracting new teams and fans to the sport, P1 is delivering considerable value to host venues, race teams, sponsors and partners. Being the world’s leading media platform for motorsports programming, MAVTV will bring viewers action-packed entertainment, fierce on-water competition and take our total global reach to more than 300 million homes.”

MAVTV President CJ Olivares added: “We are delighted to welcome Powerboat P1 racing to the MAVTV family and to bring live, exciting coverage of the high-speed UIM Class 1 World Championship to our viewers. There’s nothing quite like watching marine motorsports executed at such a high level. The intensity and speed of Class 1, plus the exhilarating courses and fierce competition of P1 Offshore and AquaX jet ski racing are sure to thrill fans and are a perfect fit for our growing lineup of exceptional live racing and motorsports coverage. We’re excited to be the exclusive home for live coverage of these series, sharing the stories of the world’s top marine racers with dedicated fans and new audiences through our global media platform.”

Joining the P1 broadcast team for the MAVTV one-hour live show will be renowned motorsports broadcaster Ken Stout as the principal host, with world champion offshore powerboat racer Marc Granet as co-host and Taylor Nicole Snyder as pit reporter to provide viewers with unparalleled insight.

The P1 powerboat and jet ski coverage on MAVTV is part of a massive racing lineup of top tier series and events this summer that includes the European Le Mans Series, the 2024 Monaco Historic Grand Prix, the Toyota GR Cup North America and MAVTV Originals premieres.

P1 Offshore & UIM Class 1 Championships 2024

Cocoa Beach, FL, May 17-19

Lake of the Ozarks, MI, May 30 to June 1

Sheboygan, WI, August 9-11

Sarasota, FL, September 13-15

St. Petersburg, FL, October 18-20

P1 AquaX USA Championship 2024

Daytona Beach, FL, April 19-22

Michigan City, IN, July 12-14

LaPorte, IN, July 27-28

Kissimmee, St. Cloud, FL, September 20-22

Clearwater, FL, November 1-3

Photo of UIM Class 1 race start at Cocoa Beach 2023 by Ronny Mac.

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US astronauts had to take shelter after a Russian satellite broke into over 100 pieces near the ISS

• US astronauts took shelter on the ISS after a Russian satellite broke up nearby, NASA said.
• The satellite, RESURS-P1, was decommissioned in 2021 and recently created over 100 pieces of debris.
• Space agencies have been trying to reduce space junk like this from decommissioned assets.

US astronauts on the International Space Station were told to take shelter for about an hour after a Russian satellite broke up nearby, according to authorities.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said on Thursday evening that American crews took cover in their spacecraft at about 9 p.m. Eastern Time due to the satellite break-up.

That's about 1 a.m. for the astronauts, who follow UTC time on the ISS.

NASA said its instructions were a "precautionary measure" and that crews were told an hour later they could resume their normal activities.

Meanwhile, US Space Command said the destroyed satellite was the Russian-owned RESURS-P1 decommissioned in 2021.

The satellite's collapse on Wednesday at about 4 p.m. UTC created "over 100 pieces of trackable debris," Space Command added.

"USSPACECOM has observed no immediate threats and is continuing to conduct routine conjunction assessments to support the safety and sustainability of the space domain," its statement said.

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LeoLabs, a company that tracks space movements, wrote on X that it was tracking over 180 fragments drifting in orbit after the break.

"We expect this number to increase in the coming days. We are actively analyzing the debris cloud to characterize it, identify a potential cause, and estimate the impact," the firm wrote.

By LeoLabs' estimation, the RESURS-P1 was about 13,200 pounds and held a "nearly circular orbit" when it split.

The Russian satellite was an observation tool capturing high-resolution images that allowed the viewer to distinguish objects on Earth about 1 meter apart.

Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, said in January 2022 that the satellite had been inactive since late 2021 due to the failure of its onboard equipment after operating 3.5 years longer than expected.

Satellite breakups in low Earth orbit can often pose hazards to other satellites, spacecraft, or space stations because of the debris they release.

Debris can sometimes stay for decades in close orbit before Earth's gravity pulls it into the atmosphere and burns it up.

Space agencies have been working to reduce space junk in low Earth orbit as more satellites are decommissioned, primarily because the resulting debris raises the risk of spacecraft crashes.

In October 2023, for example, the Dish Network was fined $150,000 for leaving a retired satellite in the wrong place.

The preferred way of disposing of a retired satellite is typically to send it further away from Earth, reducing the risk of interrupting space activities near the planet. Another way is to allow the satellite to fall into the atmosphere, where it will be burned.

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