Tri-peat!

Steve David, driver of the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison, celebrates after winning the Lamb Weston Columbia Cup on the Columbia River Sunday in Kennewick, Wash. David won the race, his third straight at Tri-Cities, after Dave Villwock was penalized a lap. (AP photo by Paul T. Martin/The Tri-City Herald) Sunday's Tri-Cities final had all the markings of yet another Dave Villwock cakewalk. But a penalty on the final turn of the final lap ripped the Columbia Cup out of Villwock's grasp and into the hands of Steve David and the Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison. Villwock, driving the U-96 Spirit of Qatar, was leading the final heat comfortably when he switched lanes at the apex of the final turn. Steve David, who never backed off and was closing on Villwock as the Qatar was closing out what looked to be an easy win in a otherwise perfect weekend, was close enough that officials quickly called a one lap penalty for lane encroachment on Villwock. The result was a third-straight win at the Tri-Cities for David and the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison, a shuffle in the National High Points standings and plenty of high emotions on the shore. "You never know. You never give up. You just run as hard as you can," said an ecstatic David. "Not hearing the radio was maybe better because I never backed down." Monday, July 26, 2010

Columbia Cup At A Glance

2010 LAMB WESTON COLUMBIA CUP H1 Unlimited Hydroplane Series Columbia River Kennewick, Wash. Length: 2.5 miles Results FINAL HEAT Monday, July 26, 2010

3-Peat For Steve David and the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto

Kennewick, Wash. (July 25, 2010) For third straight year Steve David in the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto won the Lamb Weston Columbia Cup, Sunday on the Columbia River. Monday, July 26, 2010

Steve David wins Columbia Cup

Controversy strikes Columbia Cup as U-96 assessed one lap penalty to give winner take all fin to Steve David in the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison. U-1 scores 3-peat. Sunday, July 25, 2010

Friday At Tri-Cities

Friday at Tri-Cities 2010 LAMB WESTON COLUMBIA CUP Columbia River Kennewick, Wash. Length: 2.5 miles Friday, July 23 QUALIFYING RESULTS Saturday, July 24, 2010

Oberto wins Dash, Qatar fastest at Tri-Cities

Steve David took the Dash for Cash exhibition race but Dave Villwock was the fastest after the first day of qualifying for the 2010 Lamb Weston Columbia Cup in the Tri-Cities, Wash. Friday. Saturday, July 24, 2010

Gunning for a Columbia 3-Peat

Steve David has driven the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison to wins on the Columbia River each of the last two seasons. If he wants to maintain his tenuous hold on the national points lead, he'll need to make it a three-peat. Friday, July 23, 2010

Near-perfect weekend powers Oberto to repeat win at Columbia Cup, points leads

KENNEWICK, Wash. - A near-perfect weekend of racing on the Columbia River not only allowed Steve David and the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto/Miss Madison to repeat as Columbia Cup champions but also leapfrog over Dave Villwock and the U-16 Miss Elam Plus into the season points lead. Monday, July 27, 2009