ClassMates.com Co-Sponsors World Record-breaking Hydroplane.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2000 The first completely `dot com' sponsored hydroplane hydroplane, small, high-powered racing boat designed to skim along the surface of the water. Its hull is so shaped that at high speeds the bow is tilted up out of the water, reducing the effect of frictional drag. Hydroplanes are commonly powered by outboard motors. set a new record yesterday. The boat, Miss FreeI, driven by Russ Wicks, set the new one-mile speed record by traveling an average of 205.494 miles per hour across the waters of Seattle's Lake Washington Lake Washington is the second largest natural lake in state of Washington (after Lake Chelan) and the largest lake in King County. It is bordered by the cities of Seattle on the west, Bellevue and Kirkland on the east, Renton on the south and Kenmore on the north, and surrounds . The `high tech' boat was sponsored by freeInternet.com, ClassMates.com, Infospace, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , hp, egghead.com, 3dfx, and Gameworks. The previous record of 200.419 miles per hour was set in 1962. The new record was set when Seattle native Russ Wicks made two timed runs through the speed traps recording a northbound north·bound adj. Going toward the north. northbound Adjective going towards the north Adj. 1. time of 207.254 mph and a southbound south·bound adj. Going toward the south. southbound Adjective going towards the south Adj. 1. time of 203.735 mph. The official speed is the average of those two runs. Mike Siemion, ClassMates Classmates can refer to either:
Russ Wicks, a registered ClassMates.com member, said, "It was great to be sponsored by this group of cutting edge `dot com' ventures that came together to support the high-tech sport of hydroplaning Hydroplaning and hydroplane may refer to:
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