Editing Madison, Indiana (section)

==Powerboat racing==
[[File:MissMadisonHydroplane2007.jpg|thumb|''[[Miss Madison]]'' is an [[H1 Unlimited]] [[hydroplane (boat)|hydroplane]] and the only community-owned unlimited hydroplane in the world.]]
Madison has a [[powerboat]] racing tradition dating back to at least 1911. In 1929, the city began holding an annual race, later called the [[Madison Regatta]] beginning in 1948. Since 1954, the Madison Regatta has held a high points Unlimited [[Hydroplane racing|hydroplane race]] annually in early July. Although Madison has a population of only 12,000, the regatta maintains its place in Unlimited Hydroplane racing, hosting an [[H1 Unlimited]] race, whose other events are in [[Seattle]], [[San Diego]], [[Guntersville, Alabama]], and [[Tri-Cities, Washington]]. The Madison Regatta draws about 70,000–100,000 people annually on the [[Independence Day (United States)|July 4]] weekend. A week-long riverfront festival also surrounds this racing event.

A source of community pride is that Madison has the world's only community-owned unlimited [[hydroplane racing|hydroplane racer]], ''[[Miss Madison]]'', which began Unlimited-class racing in 1961. The boat, which has been known by various corporate sponsor names but was officially called U-6, traditionally finished near the bottom of the circuit. Before [[Anheuser-Busch]] dropped its sponsorship of hydroplane racing after the 2004 season, U-6 had won just six races using a variety of hulls. One of those wins was an upset in the 1971 Regatta, when by a mistake in the bidding process, the APBA Gold Cup was held in Madison for the first time, in which the low-budget team and its 1960-vintage hull defeated the well-funded corporate teams and their newer generation of "Thunderboats". The Gold Cup winner retired at the end of the year, taking second place in the overall national standings, and was replaced with a new ''Miss Madison'' in 1972. Newer hulls followed in 1978 and 1988. Madison hosted the APBA Gold Cup Race again in 1979 and 1980.

As a participant in the new [[H1 Unlimited]] series, the City of Madison team driver, Steve David, finished first in the H1 Unlimited national point drivers standings in both 2005 and 2006 driving U-6, now in the colors of sponsor [[Oberto Sausage Company|Oh Boy! Oberto]]. In 2008, under the aegis of Miss Madison Incorporated and with a new hull built in 2007, the U-1 ''Miss Madison'' won its first H1 Unlimited National High Points Championship for Oh Boy! Oberto. On July 3, 2011, at Madison, David escaped serious injury but the hull was seriously damaged when the three-time defending national champion crashed into the U-96 ''Spirit of Qatar'' on the third lap of the championship heat after ''Qatar'' spun in a turn into the path of the Oh Boy! Oberto/''Miss Madison''. David and the repaired boat returned in time for the 2011 [[Columbia Cup]], where it finished second (to U-96), then won the August 7 [[Albert Lee Appliance Cup]] in Seattle. In true ''Miss Madison'' tradition, the repairs to the hull are being defrayed by local fundraisers.

The ''Miss Madison'''s greatest accomplishment, when it seemingly came from out of nowhere to win the 1971 Gold Cup with an aged boat against powerful competitors such as ''Atlas Van Lines II'' and ''Miss Budweiser'', was recreated in the semi-fictional film [[Madison (film)|''Madison'']].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Farley |first=Fred |title=Miss Madison, the Gold Cup Champion - Prologue |url=http://www.missmadison.com/history/71goldcup_a.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515153544/http://www.missmadison.com/history/71goldcup_a.htm |archive-date=May 15, 2008 |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=www.missmadison.com}}</ref>

In 2013, Miss Madison/ Oh Boy! Oberto driver Steve David announced his retirement after his final run at the San Diego Sea Fair. On Friday, November 8, 2013, a retirement celebration was held at the Boneyard Grill on Madison's hilltop to celebrate David's 12-year tenure as the driver of Miss Madison's Oh Boy! Oberto.

The Madison-based team continues to compete in the H1 Unlimited championship, with driver Jimmy Shane and sponsor HomeStreet Bank, who have been with the squad since 2016.