Sunday, 8 August, UDDEVALLA (Sweden): Team Abu Dhabi will walk away with maximum points from this weekend’s Swedish Grand Prix, after today’s race winners’, Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Nendi, were handed a post-race time penalty for an overtaking infringement on the start-lap.
The 27.62secs long-lap time penalty added to the World Champions overall race time gives Rashed Al Tayer and Giovanni Carpitella a second Grand Prix win in ...
Sunday, 8 August, UDDEVALLA (Sweden): Fazza’s Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi put yesterday’s race-retirement behind them to ease to a comfortable win in race 2 of the Swedish Grand Prix.
Rashed Al Tayer and Giovanni Carpitella capped an impressive weekend for Team Abu Dhabi, finishing second, to make it a hat-trick of podium successes in Uddevalla, with Abdullah Al Mehairbi and Talib Al Sayed in Skydive Dubai completing the podium and ...
Sunday, 8 August, UDDEVALLA (Sweden): Welmax team manager, Per Carsten Michelsen, says the chances of getting Welmax to the start-line for today’s race are improving by the minute. "Last night I put our chances at 30%, now maybe 70%."
Like their counterparts in Victory Team, Welmax Offshore Racing technicians worked through the night in a frantic effort to repair the damage to their raceboat following Jorn Tandberg’s and Kolbjorn Selmer’s ...
Sunday, 8 August, UDDEVALLA (Sweden): An army of Victory Team mechanics and boat builders worked through the night to fix the stricken Fazza following its spectacular collision with Relekta in race 1 of the Swedish Grand Prix.
And after finally calling it a day at 5am the team is confident that world champions Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi will be in shape to compete in the second race later today. "Mechanically, everything has been ...
Saturday, 7 August, UDDEVALLA (Sweden): Team Abu Dhabi’s Giovanni Carpitella and Rashed Al Tayer celebrated their maiden Grand Prix win in a dramatic and incident-filled first race of the Swedish Grand Prix, which saw the race red-flagged twice, with pole-sitters Welmax crashing out on lap 1 and both Relekta and Fazza going-out on lap 1 of the re-start.
A third start saw a reduced fleet take the green flag, with Team Abu Dhabi, winning ...
Saturday, 7 August, UDDEVALLA (Sweden): Jorn Tandberg and Kolbjorn Selmer needed just one lap in today’s official qualifying session to take their second consecutive win in the Edox Pole Position, and put Welmax on pole for race 1 of the Swedish Grand Prix.
In what looked like a straight re-run of qualifying in Norway three weeks ago, the Norwegian-duo threw down the gauntlet on the first of two flying laps, setting theirs, and what ...
Friday, 6 August. UDDEVALLA (Sweden): Welmax duo, Jorn Tandberg and Kolbjorn Selmer, followed up their impressive showing in practice to win the Class 1 Aspen Speed run over the flying kilometre – setting identical times on both their runs.
Fazza set the benchmark of 15.84 seconds, only to see their time eclipsed four-times - the best, Welmax, 13.81secs - to put the current Championship leaders at the bottom of the pack.
Friday, 6 August, UDDEVALLA (Sweden): Norwegian outfit Welmax laid down their marker of intent ahead of this weekend’s Swedish Grand Prix, topping the standings in today’s first official practice session on Uddevalla’s Byfjorden.
The Norwegian duo, who went quickest in qualifying last time out in Arendal, were once again impressive and stole-a-march on the Championship leader’s, Fazza, posting their best time of 2mins 23.86secs around the ...
Wednesday, 4 August, UDDEVALLA (Sweden): Fazza 3 will be looking to complete a hat-trick of season-win-doubles in Uddevalla this weekend when the UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship makes its Grand Prix debut in Sweden (6-8 August).
The defending World Champions, Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi, are in imperious form and seemingly unbeatable. But both men know that they will come under increasing pressure from a trio of outfits, ...
