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Racing enthusiast Craig Arfons was aiming for a world water speed record on a mirror-smooth lake when his 5,500 horsepower jet hydroplane veered off course and flew into a fatal cartwheel at more than 300 mph. The 39-year-old Arfons, whose father, Walt, and uncle, Art, both held world land speed records in the 1960s, was pronounced dead shortly after the accident Sunday on the mirror-smooth Jackson Lake in Sebring. Officials don't yet know what caused the crash, which made Arfons the sixth driver to die in quest of the world record since 1937.