Mike Hanson always knew what he wanted: to race hydroplanes. So he got started at 17, and at 65 the crew chief for BWR Racing will back at Seafair yet again.
When he was elementary-school age, Mike Fitzsimmons was the envy of all the kids. Every day after school he spent time at a family friend’s Seattle boat shop learning to build a hydroplane, the ...
HYDROPLANE RACING is a sport for thrill-seekers. A human is strapped into what is essentially an airplane wing fitted out with an airplane (or helicopter) engine, and then zooms almost airborne across ...