WOF 2014#04: XCAT Powerboat World Series 2013 - Stresa/Italy

Extreme Motorsports

X CAT World Series 2013 - Powerboat Round 4 in Stresa

Stresa, Italy

 

Off shore powerboat racing - one of the fastest most intense forms of motorsport in the world, and the X Cat World series has a place right at the top of the list, when it comes to prestige. Competition X Cat is short for Extreme Catamaran and you don’t need to much imagination to see why. Powered by twin 250 horsepower engines this highly tuned vessels, skim the waves at almost 200 kilometres an hour and often race within a few centimetres of one another.