Key Figures · Racer
Steve Friebe
First overall with a co-rider at the 2006 Mark Hahn Memorial 300 team endurance race on the APBA's results, and placed in the Long Beach to Catalina offshore race in 2007, 2008 and 2011.
At a glance
- Role
- Racer
- On the record
- 4 years, from 2006 to 2011
- Disciplines
- Endurance, Offshore
- Titles on the record
- 1 title, each off a held results document
- In the archive
- 1 history chapter and 2 events
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- a title year
Printed above the facts or in the title rows, 2006 to 2008 and 2011. Printed above none, 2009 and 2010. Title year 2006. 1 fact has no year printed above it and marks no box.
Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact or in a title row on this page, one box a year.
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Confirmed 6
Likely 1
Contested 0
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The grade word on each fact on this page, counted. It grades how firmly the documents tie each fact to this person, not the person.
How we know: the word printed above each fact below, counted on this page only.
Titles on the record (1)
Each read off a results document the archive holds: a result sheet, or, for a season's title, the body's own champions grid or season table, with the name as that document prints it.
| Year | Event | Class | Placing | Name as printed | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Mark Hahn Memorial 300 PWC Endurance Race | Pro/Am 4 Stroke Class | 1st in class and 1st overall | Steve Friebe | APBA Mark Hahn 300 results 2006 |
Results
2006 · Confirmed
The results posted by the American Power Boat Association (APBA) put boat 3, Steve Friebe and Matt Legerski, first among the Overall Endurance Champions with a record time of 4 hours 50 minutes, and first in the Pro/Am 4 Stroke Class. The sheet prints no year; 2006 comes from the folder and file name it was posted under. A release for the next running, dated 9 September 2006 and carried by the International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA), gives the same record to Matt Legerski and Steve Friebe aboard a Sea-Doo RXP at the previous year's event.
Sources: APBA Mark Hahn 300 results 2006; Mark Hahn 300 release 2006
2007 · Confirmed
The official results of the Mark Hahn Memorial 300 of 24 February 2007 place boat 3, first rider FRIEBE, STEVE, eleventh with 28 laps, the boat number of the 2006 win.
2007 · Confirmed
The APBA's final results of the 2007 Long Beach to Catalina and back race list Steve Friebe, number 3, as on the Mark Hahn sheets, fifth overall in 56 minutes 10 seconds, and fifth in Pro/Am Class 1 in the class breakdown.
Sources: APBA LB2CAT final results 2007
2008 · Confirmed
The combined overall results of the 2008 Mark Hahn 300 place Steve Friebe and Matt Legerski second overall, boat 3, in the class coded P/A 4, on a make coded SD.
2008 · Confirmed
The official overall results of the 2008 Long Beach to Catalina race, revision of 7 August 2008, list Steve Friebe, number 3, as on the Mark Hahn sheets, seventh in 1 hour 13 minutes 37 seconds, in Pro/Am Open, on a make printed Sea.
Sources: 2008 LB2CAT official overall
2011 · Likely
The promoter's report of the 2011 Long Beach to Catalina race, posted on the APBA's site, lists Steve Friebe, boat 50, fifth in its official results in 57 minutes 55 seconds, and third in Pro/Am Open on a Sea Doo RXTX. The same report congratulates him on winning the overall title of the 2011 APBA Triple Crown of Offshore Racing, a series of three rounds; that is the promoter's statement, and no standings table for the series is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19). Reading this rider as the one on the earlier sheets rests on the name and the sponsor, an inference, because the boat number changed: the report calls him a Clawson's Motorsports sponsored rider, and the 2008 Long Beach sheet prints Clawson Motorsports on his sponsor line.
Sources: LB2CAT 2011 results and report; 2008 LB2CAT official overall
Recognition
The PWCOFFSHORE Endurance and Offshore Racing Hall of Fame lists Steve Friebe as inducted in 2012, on its roster captured in September 2019 and on its live page read in October 2026. Its citation names him a Mark Hahn 300 Mile National Champion, a 2011 DJSA Champion and the 2011 Triple Crown of Offshore Champion; those are the hall's words.
Sources: Offshore hall of fame 2019; Offshore hall of fame 2026
Elsewhere in the archive
- History chapter: Endurance and offshore, by the rule book
- Event: Havasu 300 and Mark Hahn Memorial 300
- Event: Long Beach to Catalina and Back (LB2CAT)
- Organisation: American Power Boat Association
- Era: The rule book years
What the archive has not read (1)
- No DJSA result sheet or standings table is held, so the 2011 DJSA title in the hall's citation is not listed as a title (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).
Documents cited on this page
- APBA Mark Hahn 300 results 2006 (web.archive.org): Mark Hahn Memorial 300 PWC Endurance Race, Results (PDF on apbaracing.com, filed under 2006 results, Wayback capture of 29 April 2011), American Power Boat Association (apbaracing.com), 2006; sanctioning body, high. The sanctioning body's results for the 2006 running of the 300-mile team race at Lake Havasu: the overall top ten and the top finishers of each class, by boat number and team. The sheet prints no year; 2006 comes from the folder it was filed in and from the file name. High as the results document. The held copy is an excerpt.
- Mark Hahn 300 release 2006 (web.archive.org): 2007 APBA National Mark Hahn Memorial (the promoters' release as posted on ijsba.com, dated 9 September 2006, Wayback capture of 26 September 2020), International Jet Sports Boating Association (carrying the promoters' release), 2006-09-09; editorial, medium. The race's own release, carried by the IJSBA, naming Jim Russell, DSM Events owner, and Mike Follmer as event co-promoters of the third race, 24 February 2007, APBA sanctioned, and giving the record set at the previous year's event and the 60 teams there, so it shows the 2006 race run. Medium: an event's own account carried by a body.
- APBA Mark Hahn 300 official results 2007 (web.archive.org): Official Results, Mark Hahn Memorial 300, February 24, 2007 (PDF on apbaracing.com, Wayback capture of 20 July 2008), American Power Boat Association (apbaracing.com), 2007-02; sanctioning body, high. The race's official overall order with boat numbers, laps, both riders, craft and times, as posted on the sanctioning body's site. High as the results document; the text extract shifts the second-rider and time columns, so a page reads only the place, boat, laps and first rider together. The held copy is an excerpt.
- APBA LB2CAT final results 2007 (web.archive.org): APBA Offshore Racing, 2007 Long Beach 2 Catalina & Back Final Results (apbaracing.com page, Wayback capture of 4 August 2007), American Power Boat Association (apbaracing.com), 2007; sanctioning body, high. The sanctioning body's own page of final results for the 2007 offshore race from Long Beach to Catalina Island and back: overall order with number, time and class, then a breakdown by class. High as the results document.
- APBA Mark Hahn 300 overall results 2008 (web.archive.org): 2008 Mark Hahn Combined Overall Results (PDF on apbaracing.com, Wayback capture of 20 July 2008), American Power Boat Association (apbaracing.com), 2008-03; sanctioning body, high. The combined overall order of the 2008 running of the 300-mile team race, with both riders, class code, boat number and make. High as the results document; the class place and lap columns print on two lines per team and are not read. The held copy is an excerpt.
- 2008 LB2CAT official overall (web.archive.org): Long Beach to Catalina and Back 2008, official overall results (spreadsheet on pwcoffshore.com, Wayback capture), pwcoffshore.com, 2008-08-07; editorial, high. The race's official overall results, revision of 7 August 2008, with position, number, make, time, class and sponsors per rider, read as spreadsheet rows. High because it is the results document itself; the sheet prints no sanctioning body, and the event and year come from its file name.
- LB2CAT 2011 results and report (web.archive.org): The 2011 APBA Long Beach to Catalina and Back Offshore National Championship Race (PDF on apbaracing.com, issued on behalf of RPM Racing Enterprises, Wayback capture of 8 February 2012), RPM Racing Enterprises, on the American Power Boat Association's site (apbaracing.com), 2011; editorial, medium. The promoter's report of the 2011 race with its official results and Pro/Am Open results, and a paragraph on the overall standings of that year's three-round offshore series. Medium, as the promoter's own account posted on the body's site. Its prose gives one rider a number that the results table gives to another, so numbers are read from the tables only. The held copy is an excerpt.
- Offshore hall of fame 2019 (web.archive.org): PWCOFFSHORE Endurance and Offshore Racing Hall of Fame (pwcoffshore.com, captured September 2019), pwcoffshore.com; editorial, high. The hall's own roster of six with a citation for each. High for who it inducted and when; its citations are the hall's retrospective tribute, and a page that repeats one says whose words they are.
- Offshore hall of fame 2026 (pwcoffshore.com): Pwcoffshore Racing Hall of Fame (pwcoffshore.com, live page read October 2026), pwcoffshore.com; editorial, high. The hall's roster of eight with induction years, adding the two inductees of 23 November 2019 that the September 2019 capture predates, and the text of each citation, among them an induction speech. High for who it inducted and when; the citations are the hall's retrospective tribute, and a page that repeats one says whose words they are.
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