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RECORDS
SET BY THE TEXAN
Top Fuel Hydro
Drag Boat
·
National Drag Boat Association (N.D.B.A.) record 229.00 MPH (backed up
by 226.89 MPH)
· Southern
Drag Boot Association (S.D.B.A.) record 220.76 MPH (retired undefeated)
· Canadian
record 223.32 MPH
· World
elapsed time record 5.16 seconds
· World
Championship winner (A.D.B.A.) 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983
· High
Points winner (S.D.B.A.) 1976, 1977. 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982
· Nationals
winner (S.D.B.A.) 1978
· Texas
Shootout winner (S.D.B.A.) 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983.
· Nationals
winner (N.D.B.A.) 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984
· Coors
Summer Nationals winner 1980, 1981, 1983
· World
Series of Drag Boot Racing winner 1983, 1984
· Season
Standings: 1978 Won 7 of 13 races
1979
Won 6 of 18 races
1980 Won
9 of 15 races
1981 Won
8 of 11 races
1982 Won
8 of 12 races
1983 Won
10 of 16 races (5 runnerup)
1984 Won
7 of 18 races (7 runner-up)
·
Holder of 17 Individual strip records for speed and elapsed time.
·
First boat in all four sanctioning associations to complete the quarter
mile in under 6 seconds.
·
The only drag boot to ever hold top records in all four drag boat associations
concurrently.
·
The only boat to ever break the E.T. record (5.16 backed up by 5.17 seconds)
in the quarter mile as set by top fuel asphalt quarter-mile dragsters and
funny cars.
·
As of November, 1984, Eddie Hill had these liquid passes to his credit:
Over
200 MPH 101
Over 210 MPH
48
Over 215 MPH
27
Over 220 MPH
7
Over 225 MPH
2
· Recorded
in 1984 and 1985 American and British editions of the Guinness Book of
World Records for highest speed and quickest E.T. ever attained by a propeller-driven
boot.
· Eddie
Hill survived the highest speed crash ever recorded of a propeller-driven
boat at 217.91 MPH with an E.T. of 5.24 seconds.
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