{"id":218122,"date":"2026-04-04T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218122\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:10:07","slug":"st-pete-payouts-214285-across-65-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218122\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Payouts: $214,285 Across 65 Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 IHRA Offshore Powerboat Series season opener at St. Petersburg distributed $214,285 in prize money across 65 boats and 11 competing classes, with IHRA paying out three bracket classes that did not meet the agreed minimum entry count.<\/p>\n

The event ran March 27-29 on the waters off St. Petersburg, Florida. Three classes \u2013 Super Vee, Extreme, and Cat 300 \u2013 had no entries at this early-season round. Bracket 200 (four boats), Bracket 300 (two boats), and Bracket 400 (three boats) fell below the minimum threshold but were paid out in full. IHRA said it recognised the effort of teams who committed to the opening round.<\/p>\n

Each boat also received $1,250 in tow money regardless of finishing position.<\/p>\n

Class Winners and Payouts<\/p>\n

* Class did not meet agreed minimum entry count. IHRA paid out in full.<\/p>\n

Full Podium Results by Class<\/p>\n

* Class did not meet agreed minimum entry count. IHRA paid out in full. All figures are prize money only, excluding $1,250 tow money paid to every competing boat.<\/p>\n

The full 2026 IHRA Offshore Championship Standings<\/a> after Round 1 are published on Powerboat News.<\/p>\n

Round 2 is the 2nd Annual New Orleans Powerboat Grand Prix<\/a>, April 10-12 at Bonnabel Boat Launch, Metairie, Louisiana. General admission is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 IHRA Offshore Powerboat Series season opener at St. Petersburg distributed $214,285 in prize money across 65…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[42386,99107,10987,88024,99115,202,204,203,199,201,200,99116],"class_list":{"0":"post-218122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-42386","9":"tag-ihra-offshore","10":"tag-monster-energy","11":"tag-offshore-powerboat-racing","12":"tag-st-pete-payouts","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-team-bermuda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218122","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=218122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}