Records continue to be broken at a Lake District water speed event this week.
Now in its 52nd year, Coniston Records Week sees competitors vie to be the fastest on the lake.
Coniston Power Boat Records Week is considered by many as the world’s premier water speed record event and sees British and international drivers attempt to raise the bar of speed record in their class of watercraft on Coniston Water.
Day two saw some monuments records tumble. The weather was near perfect for high speed record breaking and as 8am chimed there were plenty of competitors ready to take to the water.
The second day of Coniston Records Week 2024 saw a total of 37 runs with 10 records set.
First up was Thomas Mantripp, who in his Outboard Hydroplane was just short of the speed he needed to set a new record.
Not deterred by this Thomas took to the water several more times during the day.
Thomas’s determination paid off and wrapped up the day with an outstanding achievement in the Racing Outboards O.350 class by taking a world water speed record that had stood since 1995.
Thomas is now the British National and World water speed record holder of the O.350 class with a speed of 117.80mph.
Hagan Jerzyski from Berlin has travelled over 1,500km to take to the hallowed water of Coniston to continue his record breaking streak of recent years.
With his co-driver Stef Scheepers, Hagen set his second world and German national record of the week at 92.72mph in the Pleasure Navigation Group A (HOCR) Supersport class.
As well as oversees competitors some drivers compete on their doorstep like first timer at Record Week, 25-year-old, George Hughes.
George, of Cartmell Fell, has only had to travel about 20 miles to set a new British national record in his Simia Marine prepared Phantom Monohull.
After setting a new record on Sunday, George continued his endeavours on Tuesday, eventually settling on a record breaking speed of 60.93mph.
The fastest run of the day and the week so far was set by 32 year-old marine engineer from Portsmouth, Sam Whittle in his BABA built catamaran hull boat.
Following a successful day 1, Sam was ready today to push his record breaking speed higher. Yesterday afternoon, Sam’s top speed was 130.97mph, and that was enough to take the world record from his father Keith in the S2000 class.
