With seconds of El Bandido Yankee Tequila’s spectacular double-corkscrew-aerial to sunny-side-up landing yesterday during the St. Petersburg Grand Prix, Eric Colby, who covers offshore racing for speedonthewater.com, reached out.
“Did you see that?” he wrote via text message. “In 30 years of offshore racing coverage, that was a first for me.”
Thanks to the wonders of social media—it does have its uses—Colby wasn’t alone. Now people all over the world have seen it.
Steve Miklos, the owner and throttleman of Mod-V-class raceboat, and his longtime driver Steve Fehrmann were out of the with a few moments after it came to rest. They even fired up its engine before it was towed back to docks.
El Bandido Yankee Tequila’s aerial performance and landing earned perfect 10-point scores from everyone on the start/finish boat.…