Drew Benton expected this would happen, but hoped it wouldn’t.
“I’m going to go to this seawall close by, but if somebody is on it, and there probably will be, my second spot is several miles down river,” Benton said prior to takeoff.
Sure enough, Benton had to do a U-turn and head down the Niagara River when he found a boat on the seawall just after takeoff. And who would that be? Of course, his opponent, the No 1-seeded Kevin VanDam.