Here is the 2011 unlimited hydroplane racing season point standings through the Columbia Cup, which was run July 31 in Kennewick, Wash.

KENNEWICK Jeff Bernard likes having a teammate to race with in Scott Liddycoat.

KENNEWICK -- Ted Porter, who owns three boats in this weekend's fleet -- the U-5 Graham Trucking, the U-7 Valken.com and the U-57 Formulaboats.com -- loves his new rookie driver, Scott Liddycoat.

Hull No.: U-7

Steve David saw Chip Hanauer approaching him in Lampson Pits on Sunday afternoon.

KENNEWICK -- Steve David and Dave Villwock beat the rest of the field Saturday in the Lamb Weston Columbia Cup, while the boat graveyard on the Columbia River known as the first turn claimed one victim, injured another and nearly got a third.

Here are two views of the flip of the U-7 Graham Trucking during Sunday's unlimited hydroplane races on the Columbia River in Kennewick, Wash. These were posted on YouTube.

By the time J. Michael Kelly knew he was going to flip over in the U-7 Graham Trucking on Sunday, he had the common sense to bring his body parts - his arms, his legs - as close to him as possible.

KENNEWICK -- Unlimited hydroplane racing has had its share of controversy over the years, and Saturday's Lamb Weston Columbia Cup added to that legacy with another chapter of the soap opera called As the Turbine Turns.

KENNEWICK -- It was the same old story on the unlimited hydroplane circuit Friday at Lampson Pits.

The 44th version of the Lamb Weston Columbia Cup gets under way this Friday.

DETROIT -- Dave Villwock has found many different ways to earn his 58 career unlimited hydroplane victories.

MADISON, Ind. -- A blowover upstaged the qualifying heats Saturday at the Madison (Ind.) Regatta unlimited hydroplane race.