For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Jimmy Shane and the U-1 Oberto team took home top honors at the annual H1 Unlimited hydroplane racing awards banquet at the Pacific Science Center on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Covington driver and the Oberto team were recognized for winning their second consecutive high-point championship while Oberto’s Larry Hanson was named Crew Chief of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “This is a big night for the Miss Madison Racing Team,” said H1 Chairman Steve David. “Not only are we honoring this team for their outstanding 2015 season, it is a great way to honor Art Oberto, ending a 40-plus year run of sponsoring an unlimited hydroplane on the H1 national circuit, and then have this team use this banquet to announce HomeStreet Bank officially as their national sponsor for 2016.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The top three national high-point drivers and teams were also honored. J.Michael Kelly, of Bonney Lake, and the Graham Trucking team were second-place honorees with Cal Phipps and the Dalton Industries team taking the third spot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The U-27 Dalton Industries (Wiggins Racing) team also took home the honor for Crew of the Year and Milt and Charlie Wiggins were named Team Owner of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Also receiving honors for their performance on the national circuit in 2015 was the U-100 Leland Racing team with the Chairman’s Award and its driver Kevin Eacret named H1 Unlimited Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The 2016 season gets underway on the Ohio River, July 1-3 with the Madison (Ind.) Regatta.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n ===<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Award winners for 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Crew of the Year: <\/strong>U-27 Dalton Industries (Wiggins Racing)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Owner of the Year:<\/strong> Milt & Charley Wiggins<\/p>\n<\/p>\n H1 Official of the Year:<\/strong> Steve Peterson<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Rookie of the Year:<\/strong> Kevin Eacret<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Crew Chief of the Year:<\/strong> Larry Hanson<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Race Site of the Year:<\/strong> Tri-Cities Water Follies & HAPO Gold Cup<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Sponsor of the Year:<\/strong> UAW-GM Spirit of Detroit Hydrofest<\/p>\n<\/p>\n H1 Outstanding Contribution:<\/strong> Walt Ottenad<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Chairman’s Award:<\/strong> Detroit Riverfront Events (Mark Weber, Doug Bernstein, Bruce Madej)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Chairman’s Award:<\/strong> H1 Staff of Volunteers<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Chairman’s Award:<\/strong> U-100 Leland Unlimited<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Steve Montgomery Award for Media Excellence:<\/strong> Jeff Morrow, Tri-Cities Herald<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Steve Montgomery Award for Media Excellence: <\/strong>Scott Sistek, entire KOMO-TV news desk<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Vic Nelawake Volunteer of the Year Award: <\/strong>Tommy Levitt, UAW-GM Spirit of Detroit Hydrofest<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Pro-Action Photo: <\/strong>Chris Denslow<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Pro-People Photo:<\/strong> James Crisp<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Fan Photo:<\/strong> Tim Johnson<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Season High-Points 3rd Place Driver:<\/strong> Cal Phipps<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Season High-Points 3rd Place Team:<\/strong> U-27 Dalton Industries<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Season High-Points 2nd Place Driver:<\/strong> J. Michael Kelly<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Season High-Points 2nd Place Team:<\/strong> U-5 Graham Trucking<\/p>\n<\/p>\n National Champion Team:<\/strong> U-1 Oberto<\/p>\n<\/p>\n National Champion Driver: <\/strong>Jimmy Shane<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jimmy Shane and the U-1 Oberto team took home top honors at the annual H1 Unlimited hydroplane racing awards banquet at the Pacific Science Center on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":13263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13262"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}