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John Tomlinson is a successful and well known throttleman throughout the offshore racing powerboat community. His list of achievements is an extensive one with many national and world titles, which continues to grow each year. Continue reading to catch up with what he is up to and future plans for his offshore racing career!
No stranger to success in Key West, Fla., veteran offshore powerboat racing throttleman John Tomlinson departed the place last November with a couple of titles to his credit. Tomlinson claimed a Union International Motonautique world championship in the 450R Factory Stock class with Taylor Scism, his TS Motorsports teammate, in an MTI 390XR catamaran. He also earned a Race World Offshore Key West Championship title that week in Class 1 with Carlos de Quesada in Allegra Motorsports, a 50-foot Victory catamaran.
For most offshore racers, such success constitutes one heck of a weekend. For Tomlinson, it was business as usual. But none of that business is accidental.
Like his friend Shaun Torrente, a fellow offshore competitor and three-time F1 H2O tunnel-boat racing world champion, Tomlinson doesn’t simply preach the gospel of practice and testing. He lives it. Scism, who headed from St. Louis, Mo., for Lake X in St. Cloud, Fla., for more testing of her third new raceboat in as many years, said they put approximately 70 hours on their 39-footer in 2022.
Of those hours, roughly nine were accumulated during actual races. The rest? Testing and practice.
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Original article published on speedonthewater.com
