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JEFF BERNARD Jeff has grown up around the Unlimited circuit with two uncles who race. His Uncle Mark started racing Unlimiteds in 1996, and his Uncle Mike qualified in 1997. So it was only a matter of time before Jeff was on the water in his own boat. Jeff was nine when he started outboard racing. The first two years he didn't win a race. By the third year Jeff bought a new outboard boat and was on his way at 35 m.p.h. to winning. He has worked his way up as a driver racing in all kinds of boats and classes. As Jeff said he will race "Anything, and everything," and adds "I have raced class OSY 100's, A Hydro sometimes, D Hydro, C Mod Hydro, Stock Runabout, it's is pretty much anything I can race." At eighteen Jeff retired his outboard hydro and began qualifying with Mike Jack's limited inboard Ford 2.5 Litre Modified the Adrenalin. With Mike's help Jeff had his first win in the Adrenalin at the Pateros, Washington race. That first win was only the beginning of what Jeff could do as a driver. Off the water Jeff is a quiet, layed back man who spends most of his free time involved in anything hydro, saying "I work on boats, than work, make money and work on boats some more." But Jeff still has time to help anybody who needs help at the races. When its time to race and Jeff is on the water his strengths as a driver he admits are "Starting, being clean, being clean but push it and don't give a lane or more than a lane." Some think racing hydros at the high speeds achieved going over 100 m.p.h. is crazy. Jeff will tell you a otherwise. Jeff says "I don't really think so, I think it looks a lot faster than it really feels. I have heard and felt it myself, the bigger the boat the slower it seems, the only thing you know is the buoys come around a lot faster, and the G's going into the turns." Making good starts into the first turn and just out-drive everyone is what keeps Jeff focused on the race course. Jeff adds "On the coarse you have to be clean but have to drive hard to win." One day Jeff would like to become a National Champion, Region Champion, and then run Unlimiteds.
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