#10 TERRY RINKER

2007: 3RD – 3128 PTS (-79)

Starting his 14th season

Has won the championship 3 different times in 2003, 2005 & 2006

17 career victories which makes him the 3rd highest in the history of the sport

In 2006 set a world record by winning all 7 races in the season breaking Italian Gudio Cappellini’s mark of 6 straight in 1996

Had the pole in 5 of the 7 races also in ’06

Won twice in 2007 at Kentucky and Savannah

Best qualifying was a pole in Savannah

1 for 1…2 wins in last 3 starts…

Started Champboat racing in 1995 and won his first race in Wilmington, NC in 1997

Began tunnel boat racing in 1986

The SST-45 class was his first real national series

Has 11 Nat’l championships and 4 speed records in other classes

Drives a boat designed by David Lee in Alabama called an Aero Slot

crew chief is James Chambers

hometown is Riverview, FL near Tampa

Big NHL hockey fan and follows the Tampa Bay Lightning

married
45 years old