After struggling through the 2009 season campaigning two aging hulls, Greg & Brian O'Farrell acquired the former U-21 from Freedom Racing of San Diego. The U-21 hull is considered "state of the art" and should give Brian Perkins a ride that will allow him to compete.
The team will retire their U-48 and U-50 numbers, campigning their new hull as U-21 with sponsorship from Albert Lee Appliance of Seattle for the Seattle and Tri-Cities races.
Driver Profile
BRIAN PERKINS: One of unlimited hydroplane racing’s “young guns,” Brian Perkins qualified as an unlimited driver in 2007 with the U-21 Freedom Racing Team. Competing in unlimited class hydroplane racing has long been a career goal of Perkins. As a teenager, he worked as a crew member on Bill Wurster’s U-8 LLumar Window Film. Perkins comes from a racing family as his sister, Kayleigh, is a National High Point champion in the unlimited light class. At the last race prior to the Oryx Cup UIM World Championship, the team switched to their back-up boat. In 2009, Perkins has five second place qualification heat finishes and three third-place qualification heat finishes.
