Backstreet Boy Carter's Boat Drops Out Of Keys Race

MARATHON, Fla. - Backstreet Boy Nick Carter's Super Vee offshore raceboat broke down Sunday, forcing his team to drop out of the Marathon Offshore Grand Prix in the Florida Keys.

The drive shaft broke on one of 40-foot Fountain powerboat's two engines during the third of 14 laps around a six-mile race course.

"I was very disappointed and so was the crew," said Carter, 22, who owns the boat but is not driving it during the 2002 American Power Boat Association (APBA) racing season. "Things like this do happen. That's racing."

Media Master, owned and throttled by Greg Quirk of Holbrook, N.Y. , won the Super Vee class.

Bill Mauff, of East Seatuket, N.Y., in WHM Motorsports won the Super Cat. Drambuie On Ice, driven by Hugh Fuller of Clearwater, came in second.

The event, which attracted 76 boats that race Saturday and Sunday, marked the return of offshore powerboat racing for the Middle Keys community after a nine-year absence. The race features a one-mile leg paralleling the old Seven Mile Bridge in the Keys.

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