Hosted by David Newton · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 184 episodes
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A show dedicated for preserving the history, breaking down the racing and looking to the future of the incredible sport of Unlimited Hydroplane racing. My name is David Newton, and I will be bringing you a weekly show in which we will discuss the boats, drivers, owners, crew members, legends, fans and anything that is involved with the sport that I love; hydroplane racing. Fans you can now sign up for a subscription service for the podcast! As you can imagine, running a podcast can be pricey (from hosting fees, website fees, travel, equipment, etc.). You can help the podcast by subscribing to our new service, Roostertail Talk+. The podcast is still free to all on our website and through all major podcast platforms (such as Apple Podcast, Spotify, Castbox, etc) but with Roostertail Talk+ there is more you can enjoy ! With this service you will get early links to new episodes, enjoy access to extra content, raffle prizes and more. This is a new service that we will be adding
David Newton hosts Roostertail Talk, a sports show with 184 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Lets travel back in time and revisit the radio broadcast of the 1987 Budweiser Indiana Governor’s Cup in Madison. Follow the weekend broadcast as it swings from qualifying optimism to delays, crashes, an
Send us Fan Mail You can feel it when someone’s all-in on a racing class, and Ed Thompson is exactly that right now. We sit down coast to coast with the owner of Kool Kat Motorsports and the newly announced president of
Send us Fan Mail We pick up Part Two with David Williams and Brad Haskin as Brad steps into leadership at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum and we get honest about what it takes to keep vintage hydroplanes restored, run
Send us Fan Mail We sit down with retiring museum leader David Williams and incoming director Brad Haskins to talk about what it really takes to preserve unlimited hydroplane racing history. We dig into the long-planned
Send us Fan Mail The hardest part of hydroplane racing isn’t always the speed. Sometimes it’s deciding, in real time, what actually happened when eight boats hit the start, rooster tails erase sightlines, and a champions
Send us Fan Mail We sit down with Jonathan Abbott to trace his journey from a Valleyfield kid “born in the pits” to becoming Chief Referee of H1 Unlimited. Along the way, we dig into why the 2026 rule changes around star
Send us Fan Mail Episode 180 of Roostertail Talk takes you back four decades to the thrilling 1986 Miami hydroplane race, the Budweiser Unlimited Hydroplane Championship. This special episode features a full radio broadc
Send us Fan Mail We wrap up our conversation with former H1 Unlimited commissioner Sam Cole as he lays out how the sport survived a shaky era and what it will take to grow again. We dig into sponsorship analytics, the Qa
Send us Fan Mail We pick up our conversation with Sam Cole as he explains how unlimited hydroplane racing broke onto national television and why that single shift changed sponsorship leverage for decades. We also get can
Send us Fan Mail A sport can look loud and effortless from the shoreline, but unlimited hydroplane racing only survives because someone is always doing the quiet work: calling cities, lining up sponsors, writing press re
Send us Fan Mail We wrap up our trilogy with Cool Cats Motorsports by getting specific about 2026 goals, how we stay consistent across a full season, and what we want fans to experience at the races. We also go off-track
Send us Fan Mail In part 2 we talk with Ed Thompson, John Shaw and Brent Hall about how Kool Kat Motorsports becomes a two-boat team for the 2026 season and what it takes to add a second driver without losing focus. We a
Send us Fan Mail We sit down with Ed Thompson, John Shaw, and Brett Hall to hear how Kool Kat Motorsports grows from a fan favorite into a serious two-boat Grand Prix operation. We dig into East Coast vs West Coast racin
Send us Fan Mail We wrap up our conversation with Fran and Edward Muncy by tracing how a tight-budget team kept winning, how the crew culture stayed joyful under pressure, and why Chip Hanauer set the tone in the pits an
Send us Fan Mail We pick up part two with Fran and Edward Muncey as we talk about carrying on Bill’s vision from driver to owner and into a new era. From the cabover shift to turbines, Chip’s rise, and the Atlas Blue rev
Send us Fan Mail We kick off season eight with an interview with Fran and Edward Muncey. In San Diego Fran traces a chance meeting, a swift marriage, and the making of a racing showman whose heartbeat was jazz. Family st
Send us Fan Mail We talk with Eric Christensen on the night before he picks up the classic H1 hull “Tubby,” laying out a plan to get on the water. Eric talks about the work ahead of him and his goals for the 2026 H1 raci
Send us Fan Mail Spray hangs in the air, engines hammer the river, and a championship teeters on a half‑boat‑length margin. We crack open a restored broadcast from the 1964 APBA Gold Cup in Detroit and ride every surge,
Send us Fan Mail The conversation widens beyond speed for Episode 168. We start part 4 by comparing the different hulls that Tom raced for Bernie Little and Budweiser Racing. Tom then relives the stock car crash that fra
Send us Fan Mail From the Squire Shop highs and a path toward a championship to the uneasy birth of a Miller-backed program, the story tracks the shift from piston power to turbines. What ties everything together is the
Ed Thompson
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David Williams
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