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The boat, the set up was good so hats off to all the team. It was a great race; everyone is fiercely competitive in this class, and you must run hard right to the end. This win is quite an accomplishment, and I am very proud of everyone who helped us bring it to the finish line.
Rich Wyatt
dfYOUNG Owner/Throttleman
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The dfYoung team of Rich Wyatt and Hugh Fuller delivered the performance of the weekend to win race 2 of the Mercury Racing Midwest Challenge in Sheboygan on Lake Michigan, with Darren Nicholson and Giovanni Carpitella bringing 222 Offshore home in P2 to win the 2023 UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship.
The testing conditions took its toll with just three of the seven starters going the distance and completing the 14-lap 70-mile race, the most notable exit Steve Curtis and Brit Lilly in Huski Ice Spritz whose retirement on lap 12, after running third after starting in P7, saw the end of their title challenge.
The win for Wyatt and Fuller showed the full potential of their Mystic. Starting from the outside in P6 they immediately started to force their way through the pack, moving up into P3 by the end of lap 3 and then passing race leaders 222 Offshore to hit the front.
From that point on they were in a league of their own going on to run out the comfortable winners and take a memorable victory and first win in Class 1 to move them up into third place in the championship standings. “It was a good day, not a great start but we made up for that and after the first lap realised, we were in the ballpark,” commented Rich Wyatt. “The boat, the set up was good so hats off to all the team. It was a great race; everyone is fiercely competitive in this class, and you must run hard right to the end. This win is quite an accomplishment, and I am very proud of everyone who helped us bring it to the finish line.”
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The race was tough because the conditions were really not easy, so I was always thinking about managing the boat, engines everything,” Carpitella said. “The only boat challenging us was dfYoung and we didn’t need to fight them. I was thinking of the points and knew if we stay in second is enough. And then Huski stop so we knew the title was ours if we got to the end. It was not so easy. The waves were hard to read, you would hit a wave take off straight and come down on the side into a hole. Not easy at all.
Giovnni Carpitella
222 Offshore Throttleman
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For Nicholson and Carpitella it was a measured performance after their third win of the season yesterday put them within touching distance of the title and knowing that after seeing their only title rivals sidelined, a podium would give them their first UIM Class 1 world crown. “The race was tough because the conditions were really not easy, so I was always thinking about managing the boat, engines everything,” Carpitella said. “The only boat challenging us was dfYoung and we didn’t need to fight them. I was thinking of the points and knew if we stay in second is enough. And then Huski stop so we knew the title was ours if we got to the end. It was not so easy. The waves were hard to read, you would hit a wave take off straight and come down on the side into a hole. Not easy at all.”
Third place went to Tyler Miller and Myrick Coil in Monster Energy/M Con Racing to seal a spectacular double-podium weekend in Sheboygan and move the rookie Class 1 pairing into fourth spot in the points table. “I don’t know how to put it into words. From deciding to come into class 1, all the help we have had to put this new Skater on the water, go through all the trials and tribulations and to end up on the podium in Sheboygan, not only in race 1 but to back it up and do it again today is beyond belief,” said Tyler Miller. “I am so proud of the team; they have worked so hard. There are so many people who have helped us get here.
“It was a great race. The water was very rough, very bumpy. The boat was set up perfectly. I wouldn’t have changed a thing. We were right up there from the start but had a guardian issue which kept happening throughout the race. It was a race of attrition, rough but we kept it together.”
It was a disappointing afternoon for XINSURANCE/Good Boy Vodka’s Randy Kent and Grant Bruggemann, missing out on a possible third successive podium after running in second when their race ended on lap 7, Pothole Heroes’ Carlos de Quesada and Johnny Tomlinson stopping two laps later, Defalco’s Mike Falco and Billy Moore the first casualties early on.
The UIM Class 1 World Championship now heads to St Petersburg, Florida for the final round of the season on 1-3 September, with five boats in the mix for the remaining two steps on the year-end world championship podium.
Sheboygan Class 1 Results Official Results Race Report Race 1Class 1 Standings Sheboygan Event Info
| Pos | Team Name | Boat # | Driver | Throttle | L1 | L2 | L3 | L4 | L5 | L6 | L7 | L8 | L9 | L10 | L11 | L12 | L13 | L14 |
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| 1. | dfYOUNG | 17 | Rich Wyatt | Hugh Fuller | 3:05.92 | 3:01.25 | 2:59.90 | 2:54.11 | 2:54.30 | 2:56.60 | 2:55:36 | 2:56.17 | 2.58.25 | 3:00.13 | 2:55.28 | 2:56.14 | 3:00.04 | 3:05.54 |
| 2. | 222 Offshore | 222 | Darren Nicholson | Giovanni Carpitella | 3:00.90 | 3:02.49 | 2:57.78 | 3:02.38 | 3:02.60 | 2:59.14 | 2:58.59 | 2:54.42 | 2:57.54 | 2:55.92 | 2:53.25 | 3:02.76 | 3:10.16 | 3:20.55 |
| 3. | Monster Energy M CON | 06 | Myrick Coil | Tyler Miller | 3:03.78 | 3:06.29 | 3:02.09 | 3:07.98 | 2:59.24 | 3:02.61 | 3:03.87 | 2:58.79 | 3:00.32 | 3:02.76 | 3:01.40 | 3:01.28 | 3:07.55 | 3:07.06 |
| 4. | Huski Ice Spritz | 01 | Brit Lilly | Steve Curtis | 3:09.52 | 3:04.08 | 3:00.74 | 2:58.88 | 3:00.23 | 3:01.42 | 2:59.34 | 2:54.74 | 2:54.01 | 2:53.37 | 2:56.88 | - | - | - |
| 5. | Pothole Heroes | 022 | Carlos de Quesada | Johnny Tomlinson | 3:14.34 | 3:04.06 | 3:04.95 | 3:05.17 | 3:01.10 | 3:04.30 | 3:04.40 | 3:04.62 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 6. | XINSURANCE/Good Boy Vodka | 11 | Randy Kent | Grant Bruggemann | 3:04.72 | 3:00.46 | 3:00.36 | 3:05.35 | 2:59.70 | 2:58.84 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 7. | Team Defalco | 18 | Mike Falco | Billy Moore | 3:33.84 | 3:20.12 | 3:18.92 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
