Last Lap of the Season: Key West Crowns 14 Offshore Powerboat Champions
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Story: Last Lap of the Season: Key West Crowns 14 Offshore Powerboat Champions
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Last Lap of the Season: Key West Crowns 14 Offshore Powerboat Champions
KEY WEST, Fla. (November 9, 2026) — The final race of the offshore powerboat season had to start twice. A first-lap crash stopped Sunday's Super Stock race in Key West Harbor, and after the restart, Team Bermuda led all the way to the checkered flag. When it ended, so did the 45th annual Key West World Championship presented by XINSURANCE: three days, 100 boats and champions crowned in 14 classes.
Monster Energy / M CON finished the week the way it started. The Class 1 catamaran hit nearly 150 mph Sunday on the way to its third straight Key West win. That added the three-race Conch Republic Championship to the UIM world title the team clinched Friday.
Three more teams won all three of their races. CR Racing swept Super Cat, OC Racing swept Bracket 200 and Wicked / Lakeside Motorsports swept Cat 300.
Other champions took the long way. Team Bermuda finished well back in Wednesday's Super Stock race, then won Friday and again Sunday to take the title in the week's largest class, with 16 boats. Raymarine, the UIM Super Stock world champion, finished second for the week.
Lake Wylie Racing won the Class 2 title in its rookie season without winning a race. It finished second Wednesday, third Friday and second Sunday, and steady points did the rest. Jackhammer won Sunday's Class 2 race.
The closest finish came in Bracket 400. Saris Racing Engines won Sunday's race, but Hartman / XINSURANCE held on to the week title by 15 points, 3,900 to 3,885.
In Super Vee, the father-and-son team of Ed and Anthony Smith won Sunday and the week aboard Wazzup, 25 years after the team's first Key West win. The Bracket 700 title is headed to Nova Scotia, Canada, with Pist'n Broke.
Calm water didn't make for a quiet finale. Crashes stopped Sunday's Class 1, Class 2, Super Cat and Super Stock races, with boats rolling or going airborne in the turns. Racers in every one of those crashes were reported OK, aside from a hand injury to one Super Cat driver.
Key West is the season finale for offshore powerboat racing, and most races run far out at sea. In Key West, the boats race right through the harbor, close enough to watch from almost anywhere along the waterfront. The Key West World Championship returns in 2027 as part of an expanded eight-race Race World Offshore schedule.
UIM World Champions
Class 1: Monster Energy / M CON
Class 2: Montlick Injury Attorneys
Super Cat: CR Racing
Super Stock: Raymarine
Key West World Championship Class Champions
Class 1: Monster Energy / M CON
Class 2: Lake Wylie Racing
Super Cat: CR Racing
Super Stock: Team Bermuda
Super Vee: Wazzup Motorsports
Modified Vee: Fastboys / NJ Truck King
Cat 300: Wicked / Lakeside Motorsports
Vee Limited: Team Legend 504
Bracket 700: Pist'n Broke
Bracket 600: Moderation
Bracket 500: Rum Runners
Bracket 400: Hartman / XINSURANCE
Bracket 300: Herbott Racing
Bracket 200: OC Racing
Sunday's Winners
Class 1: Monster Energy / M CON
Class 2: Jackhammer
Super Cat: CR Racing
Super Stock: Team Bermuda
Super Vee: Wazzup Motorsports
Modified Vee: Fastboys / NJ Truck King
Cat 300: Wicked / Lakeside Motorsports
Vee Limited: Team Legend 504
Bracket 700: Pist'n Broke
Bracket 600: Moderation
Bracket 500: Rum Runners
Bracket 400: Saris Racing Engines
Bracket 300: Herbott Racing
Bracket 200: OC Racing
Complete results are available at raceworldoffshore.com.
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Making waves. Offshore powerboats carve white water through the harbor turn off Key West, Fla., Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, during the final day of the 45th annual Key West World Championship presented by XINSURANCE. Three days of racing closed the offshore powerboat season, with champions crowned in 14 classes. (Bette Zirkelbach/Florida Keys News Bureau)
Take two. Super Stock catamarans charge across Key West Harbor between Key West, left, and Sunset Key, right, after the restart of Sunday's race, Nov. 8, 2026, during the 45th annual Key West World Championship presented by XINSURANCE in Key West, Fla. With 16 boats, Super Stock was the week's largest class. Team Bermuda won the race and the class championship. (Bette Zirkelbach/Florida Keys News Bureau)
Air time. 151 Express, No. 66, right, and Monster Energy / HURT, center, go airborne after launching off Say Less Racing in the harbor turn during Sunday's Class 2 race, Nov. 8, 2026, at the 45th annual Key West World Championship presented by XINSURANCE in Key West, Fla. All three crews were reported OK. After the restart, Jackhammer, No. 42, seen behind the crash, won the race. (Tracy McClellan/Florida Keys News Bureau)
Front-row seats. Spectator boats line the course as EWB Racing, No. 77, rounds a turn buoy ahead of C.J. Grant Racing / Graydel, No. 54, during Sunday's Super Cat race, Nov. 8, 2026, at the 45th annual Key West World Championship presented by XINSURANCE in Key West, Fla. C.J. Grant Racing / Graydel finished second for the week behind CR Racing. (Larry Blackburn/Florida Keys News Bureau)
Rooster tail rising. Good Boy Vodka, No. 25, throws a wall of spray through a turn in Key West Harbor during Sunday's Class 2 race, Nov. 8, 2026, at the 45th annual Key West World Championship presented by XINSURANCE in Key West, Fla. Good Boy Vodka finished third Sunday. Lake Wylie Racing won the Class 2 championship for the week. (Larry Blackburn/Florida Keys News Bureau)
Island time, double time. CR Racing, No. 8, right, and Howe2Live Offshore, No. 10, race past Sunset Key off Key West, Fla., during Sunday's Super Cat race, Nov. 8, 2026, at the 45th annual Key West World Championship presented by XINSURANCE. CR Racing won all three of its Key West races and the UIM Super Cat world championship. (Larry Blackburn/Florida Keys News Bureau)
Palms and horsepower. Super Cat racers run past Sunset Key off Key West, Fla., Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, during the final day of the 45th annual Key West World Championship presented by XINSURANCE. The Key West World Championship returns in 2027 as part of an expanded eight-race Race World Offshore schedule. (Larry Blackburn/Florida Keys News Bureau)