00:00:12professional teams including one time
00:00:14national champion miss Elam plus team
00:00:18Elam is a family affair fathers fan and
00:00:22Sons Eric and Tom race their boat miss
00:00:25eel and the brothers design and build
00:00:29boats in their own shop hydroplanes like
00:00:33miss Elam are lightning fast because
00:00:35they are designed to fly through the air
00:00:37barely touching the water for a Seattle
00:00:40boy racing line is a dream come true
00:00:43growing up in Seattle hydroplane racing
00:00:46was everything when you were kids here
00:00:48and then unlimited hydroplane racing was
00:00:50the pinnacle of motor sports in Seattle
00:00:52but you know as a kid of my age I don’t
00:00:56know anybody that wouldn’t want to run
00:00:58unlimited hydroplane it’s just it’s
00:01:00awesome the team’s philosophy is simple
00:01:04I’d like to say winning isn’t everything
00:01:07but I got to tell you winning is
00:01:09everything and that’s that’s what drives
00:01:12everything it’s just a pure will to want
00:01:15to win okay all right there now it’s
00:01:18like the boom all the way in second
00:01:19place is the first guy to lose a key to
00:01:23the team’s success driver de Ville walk
00:01:26one of the most successful racers in the
00:01:29sport the motorsport today it’s all
00:01:31about relationships and communicating
00:01:34the team that can communicate together
00:01:37and keep about running you know under
00:01:39adversity as a team that’s gonna win in
00:01:41the end team e lam is fighting for the
00:01:44top spot in the standings and is busy
00:01:46preparing for its next race
00:01:50this week’s problem the engine the most
00:01:53critical component of the boat miss Elam
00:01:56uses chinook helicopter engines to reach
00:02:00speeds of over 200 miles per hour each
00:02:03engine costs 125 thousand dollars and
00:02:07can take ten weeks to adapt from
00:02:09helicopter to hydroplane because of the
00:02:12wear and tear of racing the team must
00:02:14have more than one engine ready at all
00:02:16times with the next race just days away
00:02:20team alam is down one engine and
00:02:23scrambling probably no one has really
00:02:26had a good night’s sleep in about three
00:02:28weeks we have been working around the
00:02:30clock we’ve been working to just just to
00:02:32the point to get a few hours of sleep
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