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    Apopka, FL 32703
    United States
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Role

Throttle

Lives

Miami, FL, USA

Place of Birth

Miami, FL, USA

Started Racing Powerboats

1986

Class 1 Debut

1997 Taranto, Italy

Profession Outside Racing

Partner in TNT Custom Marine, Rigging shop & Mercury dealer, Re-Power / Service Center

Biography

Johnny Tomlinson lives and breathes powerboats. He is lauded by his peers and one of, if not the, most successful and decorated racers of the modern era in a career that extends over five decades.

Since his racing debut in the APBA Open class in 1986 in the USA he has dominated the powerboat scene on home waters. He backed his growing reputation as a fearsome throttleman in 1997, crossing the Atlantic to make his UIM Class 1 debut to team-up with Laith Pharaon in Jolly Motor, winning four out of eight races to lift the World and European Championships. He repeated the feat in 2015 winning the world title with Team Abu Dhabi alongside Gary Ballough, the duo finishing runners-up the following year.

His title successes and victories since his first win in 1986 and national title in 1990 in the USA is unparalleled and unlikely to be matched. In a racing career spanning 37 years he has amassed over 150 wins across multiple classes, lifting over 50 APBA, SBI, OSS and RWO national and world titles.

He is the co-owner of Miami-based TNT Custom Marine and has rubbed shoulders with a raft of Hollywood A listers working on blockbuster movies such as Bad Boys, Miami Vice, Beach Bums and Speed Kills.


Offshore Career Highlights

  • Offshore Career highlights
  • 2021 RWO World Champion
  • 2018 SBI Superboat National Champion
  • 2017 SBI Superboat World Champion
  • 2017 SBI Superboat National Champion
  • 2016 SBI Superboat World Champion
  • 2016 SBI Superboat National Champion
  • 2015 UIM Class 1 World Champion
  • 2015 SBI Superboat Unlimited National Champion
  • 2012 SBI Superboat Unlimited National Champion
  • 2010 SBI Superboat 850 World Champion
  • 2009 SBI Superboat 850 World Champion
  • 2008 SBI/APBA Superboat Unlimited World Champion
  • 2008 SBI Superboat Unlimited National Champion
  • 2007 SBI Superboat Unlimited World Champion
  • 2007 OSS Extreme National Champion
  • 2006 OSS Extreme National Champion
  • 2006 SBI/APBA Superboat Unlimited National Champion
  • 2005 SBI Superboat Unlimited World Champion
  • 2005 OSS Extreme National Champion
  • 2004 SBI Superboat Unlimited World Champion
  • 2004 SBI Superboat Unlimited National Champion
  • 2004 APBA Offshore/PX World Champion
  • 2004 APBA Offshore/PX National Champion
  • 2003 Superboat Unlimited World Champion
  • 2003 Superboat Unlimited National Champion
  • 2003 APBA Offshore/PX World Champion
  • 2003 APBA Offshore/PX National Champion
  • 2003 APBA Offshore Super Cat World Champion
  • 2003 APBA Offshore Super Cat National Champion
  • 2002 APBA Offshore/PX World Champion
  • 2002 APBA Offshore/PX National Champion
  • 2002 APBA Offshore Super Cat World Champion
  • 2002 APBA Offshore Super Cat National Champion
  • 2001 APBA Offshore/PX World Champion
  • 2001 APBA Offshore/PX National Champion
  • 2001 APBA Offshore Super Cat World Champion
  • 2001 APBA Offshore Super Cat National Champion
  • 2000 SBI Superboat/Vee World Champion
  • 1999 SBI World Champion
  • 1999 APBA World Champion
  • 1999 APBA National Champion
  • 1998 APBA Offshore Open Class World Champion
  • 1997 UIM Class 1 World Champion
  • 1997 UIM Class 1 European Champion
  • 1997 APBA Offshore/Modified Class National Champion
  • 1996 Undefeated Season
  • 1996 APBA/Open Class World Champion
  • 1996 APBA/Open Class National Champion
  • 1996 OPBRA Sportsman of the Year ' Inductee into APBA Hall of Champions
  • 1993 SBI Superboat Cat World Champion
  • 1991 APBA/Super Vee National Champion
  • 1990 APBA/Super Vee National Champion

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Johnny Tomlinson

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