{"id":1471,"date":"2014-08-02T10:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/covingtons-shane-tops-seafair-qualifying-hydros\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T09:05:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T16:05:31","slug":"covingtons-shane-tops-seafair-qualifying-hydros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/covingtons-shane-tops-seafair-qualifying-hydros\/","title":{"rendered":"Covington’s Shane tops Seafair qualifying | Hydros"},"content":{"rendered":"
For the Reporter <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Sunshine, clear skies and smooth water were the order of the day on Lake Washington on Friday, right up until time for qualifying for the\u00a0 Albert Lee Appliance Cup at Seafair.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The heavy cloud cover that rolled in off the Pacific brought with it light showers and a heavy breeze that put whitecaps on the race course just as qualifying was scheduled to go, causing a delay.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Officials and drivers waited while the system went through and when qualifying got under way, about 70 minutes later, the first boat on the water was Schumacher Racing’s U-37 Beacon Plumbing driven by Dave Villwock. After a busy week in the shop repairing damage from the Columbia Cup, Villwock posted a best speed of 144.138 to set the early standard.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n But that speed was thrown out by the tech truck with an N2 violation while Kip Brown was on the course running a fast lap of 148.883 in the new U-96 Spirit of Qatar, a boat that is improving quickly since making its debut a week earlier. Villwock’s second attempt was also disallowed with a fuel flow violation<\/p>\n<\/p>\n When the course closed two hours later, Jimmy Shane had put the U-6 Oberto at the top of the ladder, qualifying at 156.243 \u2013 four miles per hour faster than retired driver Steve David’s top Seafair qualifying speed a year ago.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Two other drivers also topped the 150 mark \u2013 J. Michael Kelly was second at 151.222 in the U-1 Graham Trucking and Jon Zimmerman in the 9 Les Schwab Tires\/Team RedDOT was third on the ladder at 152.219. Kelly’s speed was disallowed with another N2. When Kelly requalified his speed was 149.756, putting him in third place.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Racing begins Saturday with Heat 1A at 11:55 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The champion of the\u00a0 Albert Lee Appliance Cup at Seafair will be determined in the winner-take-all final heat at 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Unofficial qualifying results<\/strong> U-6 Obert, \tJimmy Shane, \t156.243<\/p>\n<\/p>\n U-9 Les Schwab Tires-Team RedDOT, \tJon Zimmerman, \t152.219<\/p>\n<\/p>\n U-1 Graham Trucking, \tJ. Michael Kelly, \t149.756<\/p>\n<\/p>\n U-96 Spirit of Qatar, \tKip Brown, \t148.883<\/p>\n<\/p>\n U-21 Fox Plumbing & Heating, \tJeff Bernard, \t143.109<\/p>\n<\/p>\n U-7 Graham Trucking II \tCal Phipps, \t140.964<\/p>\n<\/p>\n U-22 Boitano Homes presents Performance Tool, \tMike Webster, \t139.9<\/p>\n<\/p>\n U-11 Peters & May, \tTom Thompson, \t137.77<\/p>\n<\/p>\n U-18 Bucket List Racing, \tKelly Stocklin, \t131.451<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunshine, clear skies and smooth water were the order of the day on Lake Washington on Friday, right up until time for qualifying for the Albert Lee Appliance Cup at Seafair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":1472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1471","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\/1471"}],"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=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Number, sponsor, driver, speed<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n