Mercury sweeps Rouen 24 hour Classic
Fifteen of the 19 finishers powered by MercuryMercury Marine has dominated the 49th annual 24 Hours of Rouen endurance powerboat race -- powering the top nine finishers. Once again some 400,000 spectators lined the banks of the River Seine in the French city of Rouen to see the toughest endurance boat race in the world.
For the second consecutive year, the race was run in three sections over three days instead of the traditional 24-hour non-stop format but that doesn’t mean the racing wasn’t brutal, with driver changes every two hours and river conditions being far from ideal.
When all was said and done only 19 boats lasted the full 24 hours, and 15 had Mercury engines.
Understandably, Mercury’s dominance stretched through all three categories:
• Mercury S3000 race engines powered the first five boats in Class 3
• Mercury owned all of Class 2 with OptiMax 200XS SST or SST 120 engines
• The four-stroke Mercurys swept the top four in Class 1 competition -- a first in a class which normally favours two-stroke engines.
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