As a crew member on the Billy Schumacher Racing U-37 Unlimited Hydroplane, I’ve spent about 2 1/2 weeks updating the U-37 website (www.u-37.com)to get ready for the 2010 H1 Unlimited season. The site will feature HD onboard video, live video from each race site via the team’s U-37 TV stream, and up to the minute updates from the shop and the road. Check it out…

The GoPro HD Motorsports Hero video cameras are in and they are absolutely incredible! They BLOW AWAY anything we’ve ever seen in terms of video quality, audio quality and versatility. It now includes THREE different High -Definition recording modes, and ships with all the mounting options of the old GoPro Motorsports Hero, and now include a replaceable Lithium-Ion battery, swappable rear doors for more audio recording options and high definition cables to play your footage directly from the camera – an AMAZING combination for an extremely reasonable price!
Get ready for the season early and order yours now for a price WAY too low to advertise and MUCH cheaper than the $299.99 you’ll see elsewhere on the internet! (Really – we’ll get in trouble and jeopardize our ability to supply these to our racer friends if we advertise the price…) Drop us an email and we’ll make it worth your while to put one of these incredible little cameras on your race ride this year!

J. Michael Kelly in the U-7 Graham Trucking won his first hydroplane final in grand fashion, passing an ailing U-16 Ellstrom Elam Plus in the final lap to win the inaugural Oryx Cup UIM World Championship.

Steve David in the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto finished second giving him enough points to lay claim to both the team and driver H1 Unlimited National High Points Championship and retain the coveted U-1 designation for the 2010 season.

Villwock in the U-16 had engine difficulty after a bumpy ride through the west turn on the second lap and the usually strong charging orange and blue hull started to compression stall and yellow flame came through the tailpipe. He managed to hold off Kelly until the final lap.

The final heat was rerun after Jeff Bernard in the U-5 Formulaboats.com flipped during in its initial running. Bernard was talking with the media and the crowd in Doha and appears to be fine.

(Photo by Bill Osborne – story courtesy of H1 Unlimited)

In our constant quest to make Northwest Speedshots one of the coolest motorsports photography and video destinations on the internet, we’ve added one of the coolest features yet! You can now not only view all of our galleries with the

UPDATE: GoPro has added an HD clip of in-car video shot at Laguna Seca – A MUST SEE!

GoPro has posted some pre-production footage from the upcoming HD Hero at http://www.goprocamera.com/hdheropreview In addition to stunning HD quality video, the HD Hero includes three different resolutions: 1080p, 960p, and 720p, allowing mind-blowing wide-screen HD (1080)

Walt Ottenad’s gallery of the 2009 ULHRA Silverdale Thunder -

Joe Souza was able to deliver best finish in the history of Xaudaro/Wilmot Racing at Silverdale Thunder, bringing the UL-9 home in third place, following Brian Perkins in the UL-11 & Kayleigh Perkins in the UL-72.

Brian Perkins gave owner Bob Schellhase his maiden victory in the UL-11 at 2009 Silverdale Thunder.

Onboard video from the UL-11 Schellhase/Bartels Racing Unlimited Light hydroplane in Heat 3 at Silverdale Thunder.

Onboard video from the UL-11 Schellhase/Bartels Racing Unlimited Light hydroplane in Heat 3 at Silverdale Thunder.

Smokin’ Joe Souza in the UL-9 and Dan McCullough in the UL-58 go head to head in this interesting split screen view of the B Main at Silverdale. Souza won the heat and advanced to the final…

Onboard video from the UL-9 Xaudaro/Wilmot Racing Unlimited Light hydroplane in Heat 1 at Silverdale Thunder.

Michael Flaherty engineered this video of Mike Hancock attempting to set a new Land Speed Record in his 1982 Pontiac Firebird at the Bonneville Salt Flats

Walt Ottenad’s gallery of the 2009 ABRA Chevrolet Cup at Seafair held July 31-August 2, 2009 in Sattle, WA.

For this race, I continued to work with Scott “Pyro” Raney and the U-37 crew (great guys and girls – REALLY positive about EVERYTHING), doing all the onboard video. We got some amazing stuff that no one had really seen before, and had a bunch of fun doing it.

We put both views together for a cool view of the final heat at Seafair.

Onboard video from the U-37 Schumacher Racing Unlimited hydroplane in the Final Heat at the Chevrolet Cup at Seafair.

Onboard video from the U-37 Schumacher Racing Unlimited hydroplane in the Final Heat at the Chevrolet Cup at Seafair.

Onboard video of J.W. Myers from the U-37 Schumacher Racing Unlimited hydroplane in Heat 2B at the Chevrolet Cup at Seafair.

Split-screen video from the U-37 Schumacher Racing Unlimited hydroplane in Heat 2B at the Chevrolet Cup at Seafair.

Forward looking onboard video from the U-37 Schumacher Racing Unlimited hydroplane in Heat 3B at the Chevrolet Cup at Seafair.

Rearward looking onboard video from the U-37 Schumacher Racing Unlimited hydroplane in Heat 3B at the Chevrolet Cup at Seafair.

Joe Souza in the US Army – NAPA Auto Parts UL-9 finished Heat 1A at Seafair in third place with a 77.866mph average speed

Jean Theoret came back from a near-death experience in Madison to take the U-37 around the Lake Washington course at Seafair. Unfortunately he had not healed sufficiently to allow him to continue, and after this heat, handed off the driving duties to J.W. Myers for the remainder of the weekend.

Mike Webster takes the U-22 onto the Seafair Unlimited course for a test during the 2009 Chevrolet Cup at Seafair. Thanks to the Airbag Service crew for this video!

In Heat 1A of Unlimited Lights action at Seafair, the output shaft on the UL-56 broke at the prop, sending it into the right side tail, hitting the GoPro camera that was mounted there! This slowed down footage clearly shows the propeller as it bounced off the tail. Click the image below to see the prop caught in mid-air (courtesy of KIRO TV Seattle)