F. Williams Favourite In Outboard Final

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31926, 1 March 1969, Page 14

F. Williams Favourite In Outboard Final

F. C. Williams (New Brighton), in Hustler HI, will start favourite to win the final of the Rothmans national outboard hydro championship on the Oreti River, Invercargill, this week-end. Williams has won two of the four heats so far held in the championship and was third in the other heat in which he started. He has been most consistent in the five-mile heats and this will be a telling factor in the final over the same distance.

Williams has scored 1025 points in the heats. J. Keig, • the Ashburton driver, has one I win and 925 points and will | be the biggest treat to Wil- | liams. Other starters in the final [will be Mercury II (D. Wil son, 925 points), Justine (M. | Bain, 620), The Bomb (I G. I Ross, 400), Quickie (S. HanInan, 352), Casper (K. Driver. 300), Neutron (T. Kelly, 159) and Yellow Submarine (W. [Truman, 127). ; Hustler, Moonshot, Mercury | and Justine are New Brighton boats, Quickie and Caspar are Southland, and The Bomb, Neutron and Yellow Submarine from Westland. The South Island unrestricI ted and unlimited championship also to be held during the Southland regatta, has altraded some big and fast speedboats. P. Knight, the '! world record-holder, will be :! driving Bel Air 111 and W. II J. Stokes, another New >| Brighton driver, will race his i, hydroplane, Voodoo 111.