Author: karel

De Power pole is gestreden. Tijdens deze race proberen de teams een voor een de beste tijd neer te zetten. Deze tijd zal hun startpositie bepalen. Dat betekent niet dat ze achter elkaar starten maar wel naast elkaar waarbij het snelste team eerst aan de binnenbocht ligt. (more…)

Finally after a long periode of hastles, the Fountain #33 Furnibo from 2B1 Racing Team has been released by the customs at Zeebrugge (B). As fans and spectators we don’t realize what it takes to get the boat on the water and in the race. (more…)

On Wednesday April 29 2009 the brand new Belgian P1 Supersport team Spirit of Belgium held a testrun along the Belgian coast. The team will compete during this season in a Nor-Tech powerboat. Here on powerboating.be you find the very first pictures of this Belgian P1 team. “Pegase is our first important sponsor”, Filip Van Vlem stated. (more…)

The new Searex 43-foot powerboat was tested earlier this week in Travemunde (G). Both Sigi Greve and Belgian throttleman Gino Passchier are ready to enter the competition. Gino will be participating in the Powerboat P1 Grand Prix of the Sea already for the 4th time in a row. (more…)

After Furnibo agreed to become the main sponsor, team #33 with Colpin and Hemelaer have a name: 2B1. Read it as ‘to be one’ as you already might have guessed. A Fountain Lightning powerboat, a main sponsor and a team name: the race is on! 2B1 is ready to get into the open as Belgian P1 powerboat team. (more…)

Sigfried Greve and Gino Passchier of the Searex Team # 66 have kept their new powerboat secret for quiet some time. Finally they broke the radio silence and showed us the brand new and impressive 43 Searex Diva. The powerboat was spotted in Travemunde, Germany while inshore tests were run. (more…)

Dankzij het bedrijf Furnibo kan het team van Pierre Colpin en Frank Hemelaer nagenoeg het hele seizoen deelnemen. “We waren nog op zoek naar een ‘main sponsor’ om aan alle races te kunnen meedoen”, aldus een gelukkig Pierre. “Furnibo is bereid om ons daarin te ondersteunen.” De boot van het team zal voortaan door het leven gaan als # 33 Furnibo gedoopt. (more…)

It’s final. The new Belgian P1 powerboat team will race with # 33.
As we speak, the Fountain Powerboat is getting a new hadge due to the fact that they will not use Ilmor engines but Mercury’s. They are somewhat bigger (due to the supercharger). (more…)