Thundercats are go!!!

Over the last week the Thundercat World Championships have been taking place on Scarborough's South Beach. There has been a mix of Thundercat racing, with Jet Ski action and stunts. It has been a pretty cool event for the area.

So what is Thundercats Racing?

Well before you say it, it has nothing to do with the Cartoon! It is quite straightforward. You have 2 men in a small open powerboat. One steers and the other uses his body to help pull the boat around corners. The boats are fairly small but do go fairly quick, and lets be honest... who wants to be thrown into the nice cold North Sea at about 40mph apart from these guys!!! Teams compete around a circuit in the water.

British Team Entry, big enough for 2!

Anyway I thought these guys would be tough, mentally tough & physically prepared for anything. However it seems that a lot of them were struggling to cope with UK conditions. As one Australian steward said to me, "some of the guys have been hit pretty hard", so I replied, "What... going off into the water?" which he laughed at and said "No mate... the 18 Degrees weather here!"

I was stood next to him in a short sleeve T-Shirt while he was wearing a thick padded jacket, and it was made even more true with one of the competitors seen visibly shaking next to his boat! (I don't think he was nervous anyway).

So I thought there maybe a good chance the UK entry would take advantage of this! OK maybe not then! The South Africans are bloody good at this. It was created there so that says something, but is now global having teams from New Zealand, Australia, USA, Sweden, UK & S.Africa all competing.

Below is the Swedish Boat being persude

The Thundercats were exciting to watch as the come pretty close to the beach so views are premium. I would have liked to see longer races as they tend to last 10 mins and then break for 30 - 40 mins but all in all it was great fun!