Long before the internet decided that Chuck Norris doesn’t do push-ups but rather pushes the Earth down, the martial arts legend was doing something far more impressive: winning a world powerboat racing championship at 140 mph.
The year was 1991.
The three-minute starter board was raised.
Not a sound could be heard in Bristol Docks.
Watch any UIM F1H2O or F2 race today and the sight of drivers racing behind enclosed canopies seems entirely normal.
Modern drivers benefit from composite safety cells, HANS devices, airbags, and life support systems, technology that keeps them strapped securely into crash-tested capsules designed to withstand huge impacts.
