10 Year Old Illinois Girl Competes at Quake

Ten year old Shelby Bowsher, who lives in central Illinois, will don her helmet and racing gear to compete in the stock outboard races at the 14th Annual Quake-On-The-Lake July 19-21 on Pontiac Lake in White Lake/Waterford Townships.

Shelby made her racing debut at an event in Walled Lake and then won a medal in Kent Narrows, Maryland a couple of weeks later. The youngest competitor at Quake will hit the water sometime between noon and 1pm on Saturday, July 20. She got the “racing bug” from her dad, Sean, who races a one liter modified inboard hydroplane.

Competition will be held in six Outboard classes: Junior Hydro, AX Hydro, a Stock Hydro, C Stock Hydro and 302 Super Stock Hydro. The Junior Hydro class, in which Shelby will compete, can reach speeds up to 43 mile-per-hour.

For more information about Quake-On-The-Lake, visit QuakeOnTheLake.org