Champion of offshore racing.

Don aronow speedboat racer. American Don Aronow was a designer builder and racer of speedboats. See more ideas about offshore boats power boats boat. Michael Aronow March 1 2007.

Speed Kills Update. Speed Kills is out now in theaters and on VOD courtesy of. The sport entered the modern era in the 1960s with notable names like Jim Wynn Don Aronow and Dick Bertram competing in events such as the Bahamas 500-mile 800 km race.

He launched Magnum Marine in Florida in 1966 and created the Cigarette Donzi Formula and Cary speedboats. Aronow who would have been 60 on March 1 was a New York native and grew up racing speed skiffs on the New Jersey shore. Cigarette Racing Team.

The film is based on the true story of Don Aronow a speed boat racing champion who lead a double life. His boats went on to win a whopping 350 offshore races and Aronow himself was a two-time world champion and three-time US. The latest Speed Kills trailer has Travolta speeding through the waters of Miami running.

The man to be reckoned with at the 1969 event was the charismatic American racer Don Aronow. This is a special section devoted to Don Aronow and his influence on the sport of offshore racing. As is customary in a world dominated by speed money and worldwide travel Aronow had friends ranging from mobster Meyer Lansky to former president George H.

A friend of presidents. It would also be the last street Aronow saw alive. The film is directed by Jodi Scurfield not John Luessenhop as previously reported although Luessenhop is one of the writers along with David Aaron Cohen.