Fountain Sends a "Shockwave" Through Deerfield Beach

November 10, 2003, Washington, NC; Fountain Powerboats swept all three races of the SBI World Championships in Deerfield Beach, FL, taking 3 consecutive 1st place finishes in Super V, as well as securing the second and third place positions for the 3 race event.

Rich Tropoli, owner of Rio Roses' Shockwave elected to make another crew change for the world championships, substituting himself and Ben Robertson for Wyatt Fountain and Jeff Harris. The APBA Hall of Champions team captured World and National titles in the 40' Fountain Super V in 2001, under the "Zynetix" moniker. The magic was clearly still in the team as they propelled the boat to a flawless victory in the 1st race, defeating Firewater, another 40' by over 40 seconds. The win marked the first win of the year for the boat.

The 2nd race saw the return of Ben Robertson to the boat, but this time he moved over to the driver's seat with Jeff Harris on the throttles. The boat scored it's second win in a row, despite a broken trim ram that caused the port drive to stick in the down position, allowing Firewater, with Bob Oliver and Rich Wyatt to close the gap to within 4-seconds of the Rio Roses' Shockwave.

Sunday's third and final race again saw Jeff Harris and Ben Robertson pilot the 40' Fountain Rio Roses' "Shockwave" to a commanding victory over the Fountain dominated fleet, making it a clean sweep of the Superboat International World Championships, and yet another world title for throttleman Harris. Mechanical gremlins got Firewater on Sunday causing them to finish down on power, but still running 3rd to Team Muscle with Dave Branch and Bruce Kruglick in their 40' Fountain. The 2nd place finish for Team Muscle, combined with their 2 third place finishes, secured them a third place overall, while two second place and one third place finish for Firewater was enough for them to secure second place overall for the event, giving Fountain all three podium positions for the Deerfield Beach event.

In Manufacturers 2, Fountain Captured the world title with team Rodriquez Group in their 38' Fountain Poker Run Edition. Their 3 straight victories gave Michel Karsenti and Serge Allegre' their first world championship victory. The local team of Brett Furshman and Todd Eason, in their 38' Fountain Poker Run Edition Miccosukee Indian Gaming secured second place overall, with 2 second place finishes.

Frank Sarro and Scott O'Connor rounded out the Fountain sweep of the top v-bottom classes, in their 29' Fountain Xtreme Marine.

Fountain Powerboats is proved of all of the Fountain Racing teams for their stellar performance throughout the 2003 Super Boat International racing season.