Wildcat Racing
WILDCAT Inflatables S.A has been racing and producing boats for more than 22 years and are pioneers in the Rigid Inflatable boat racing from it's inception in South Africa, always having the largest fields.Wildcat manufacture a 6,5m and a 9,0m RIB for racing and the boat is designed and developed in South Africa.
Wildcat also do a 4.5m Rcing rib which at present is the only used rib in the Offshore Small boat racing in SA iN OCR.
Wildcat boats have proven themselves overseas and locally. It has been one of the better rough water boats and handles extremely well in the worst conditions. In the F3 class RIB in South Africa the only womens team in the world uses a Wildcat due to it giving a fast and stable ride in any conditions.
Wildcat came 1st in the 2000/1 Trans - Agulhas and also dominated the RIB class in the 2001/02 challenge ending in 2nd, 4th and 5th places. Wildcat fielded the only women's team IN 3 SEASON'S of RIB racing and they were the only womens team to complete 2 T/A and richards bay to durban challenges.
| model | crew max | hp | weight | length | beam |
410lightning |
5 |
70 hp | 70kg | 4.1m | 2.1m --PENCIL |
RSR 4.5 |
2 |
50HP | 100KG | 4.5M | 2.0M |
RSR 6.5 |
5 |
150 hp | 400kg | 6.5m | 2.3m |
RSR 9.0 |
7 |
500 hp | 650kg | 9.0m | 2.5m |
Wildcat Racing Results
- Trans - Agulhas 2000/2001 - 1st
- Trans - Agulhas 2001/2002 - 2nd, 4th & 5th
- Trans - Agulhas 2002/2003 - 1st
- Trans Agulhas 2003/2004 - 1st
- Junior/Small boat Offshore racing have been domanating by Wildcat racing since 2004 until present
- Only boat used by SA Champs last 5 years
- First manufacturer to cap mulity race Protea(springboks) drivers and youngest Protea driver
- First womens team to successfully complete 2 Trans -Agulhas and Bay to bay Challenges
- Hold both Bay to Bay titles aand records
- National Championships RIB's Formula 3 2001 - 2nd & 3rd
- National Championships race Mossel Bay (July 2001) - 1st 4th & 5th
- National Championships race Hermanus (Feb 2001) - 2nd,4th, 5th & 6th
- National Championship 2002 - 3rd, 4th & 5th
- Hermanus Challenge 2001 - 1st & 2nd
- NSRI Challenge / Walker Bay 2001 - 1st & 2nd
- RIB World Cup 2000 - 6th Only private entry from South Africa
- Cape Town (Feb 2002) - 1st,3rd, 4th & 5th
- Wildcat entered 4 RIB's in the Trans - Agulhas 2001/2 and 2002/3 race and successfully completed the challenge. This is the first time in the history of the race that this has been achieved by a manufacturer.