{"id":217689,"date":"2026-04-03T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217689\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:03:08","slug":"tough-weekend-in-st-pete-amps-two-class-racer-for-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217689\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Weekend In St. Pete \u00a0Amps Two-Class Racer For New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend\u2019s offshore racing season-opener in St. Petersburg, Fla., was not kind to Owen Buis. The 17-year-old throttleman was hoping to make his Super Stock-class debut with driver Cameron Turk debut on his Tampa Bay home-water. He planned to have a strong outing with Louisiana\u2019s Dustin Clouatre in the Mod V ranks. And wanted to cheer his father, Nick, and J.J. Turk Turk\u2014Owen\u2019s dad\u2014to Pro Class 1 success in their XINSURANCE North raceboat.<\/p>\n

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Mod V-class racers Owen Buis and Dustin Clouatre had a tough outing at offshore racing\u2019s season-opener in St. Petersburg, Fla. Photo by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But offshore racing often foils the best-laid plans.. And Buis got a heavy dose of that last weekend in St. Pete.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not \u00a0a great weekend for us,\u201d he said, then chuckled. \u201cWe had issues with all three boats.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ended up not starting the Super Stock race thanks to a power-steering problem,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe Mod V boat had unexpected gremlins. We had the start, but broke on the first lap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read More: \u2018Not Great\u2019 Weekend In St. Pete \u00a0Fuels Buis For New Orleans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last weekend\u2019s offshore racing season-opener in St. Petersburg, Fla., was not kind to Owen Buis. The 17-year-old throttleman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-217689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}