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Jack Regas is the #5 all time driver [as of 1991] in terms of winning percentage among the nearly 200 drivers that have competed in the modern history of the sport. He is the first driver to officially record a speed in excess of 200 m.p.h. in a propeller driven hull having registered a clocking of 200.442 m.p.h. for one run through the ...
Jack Regas was born on 30 August 1925 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Bay City Rollers Show (1978), Magic Mongo (1977) and The Krofft Supershow (1976). He was married to Catheryne (Kit) Regas. He died on 25 April 2018 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Director, Additional Crew, Actor
- August 30, 1925
- Jack Regas
- April 25, 2018
Jack Regas, the 1957 National High Point Champion and 1958 APBA Gold Cup winner, passed away at his home in Nampa, Idaho.. He was 90 years old. Jack was the only Unlimited hydroplane driver in the decade of the 1950s to win 45% of his races and the first ever to win six races in a row.
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With Jack Regas driving, the KAI won five races in a row and the National High Point Championship and raised SLO-MO-SHUN IV’s mile straightaway record (set in 1952) from 178.497 to 187.627 miles per hour in 1957. Following a brief retirement, Regas and HAWAII KAI III came back to save the Gold Cup for Seattle in 1958.
Nevertheless, it was at this event that the man whose name would become synonymous with Hawaii Kai III took his first competitive ride in her: Jack Regas. Jack originally entered the race as driver of the other Kaiser-owned Unlimited, Scooter Too. The Too, unfortunately, sank in the first heat.
Seattle, August 10 [1958] — Topping a field of 10 of the fastest unlimited hydroplanes ever assembled, Edgar Kaiser's Hawaii Kai, driven by Jack Regas, today captured the Gold Cup and hung up a new record in the doing, Kai garnered perfect point score of 2,000; three first places at 400 each and two 400 point bonuses — one for the fastest heat, ...
Jul 26, 2020 · Younger generations have had sports heroes such as Gary Payton, Ken Griffey Jr., Sue Bird and Russell Wilson, but kids growing up in the Puget Sound area then had Bill Muncey, Jack Regas, Mira...
