DUBBO'S Darren McGuire was a mix of emotions after finally winning the Hawkesbury Bridge to Bridge race on Sunday with his joy diminished by the sadness surrounding the death of a fellow competitor and the memory of Wellington skier Sarah Teelow still fresh in everyone's mind.

The weekend's event marked one year since the passing of Teelow after an accident while racing in 2013 and while McGuire said "the weekend was all about Sarah" there was further tragedy on Saturday when Ian Baker died after his boat flipped during trials.

The event went ahead and McGuire, driving his team on his boat Superman which won the Grafton Bridge to Bridge just last month, was the fastest throughout the 112km race.

While McGuire admitted he was overjoyed to finally win the one event which had eluded him so long, he did have heartfelt words for the water skiing community.

"It's the hardest thing, everyone in water skiing is family and it's a real tragedy but we all know they wouldn't want the races to be stopped," he said.

"He's (Baker) been on our boat before so it's just a real tragedy, in the past we've pulled people out of the water and helped save their life and even that is tragic."

The Superman boat has been dominant in 2014, winning every major race McGuire has entered and it was no different on Sunday with some incredible speeds shown.

The Hawkesbury Bridge to Bridge, run since 1961, is one of the most iconic in the sport and McGuire admitted he's not sure what to do with himself now after finally winning it.

"I skied the race in 1983 so basically ever since then I've been trying and I swore I'd win one, it's really the big one off the bucket list now," he said.

"It was a relief and satisfaction, it was just everything you can think of, it's one of the biggest races in the world and we were going so fast."

Superman was side by side with rival boat Hellbent when the race entered the river, with both travelling at roughly 200km/hr but McGuire, who does all the work and maintenance on the boat himself, knew his boat had more speed.

"The boys really lit the wick and we got it up to about 125 miles and moved ahead and we never really saw them after that," he said.

"About a third of the way through the race we blew a turbo and it exploded and we had to limp home for two thirds of the race but we were in front so far we finished about a minute off the record so we would have smashed it if that hadn't happened."

With such a successful year already and the Hawkesbury Bridge to Bridge finally won, McGuire was enjoying a moment of reflection before planning on what he'd do next.

"I don't really know (what's next), but it doesn't really matter because whatever comes next is a bonus, we've had a dream season and won every race we've entered and the boys have won convincingly, we've annihilated them really."