While testing took place in Abu Dhabis’s Grand Prix today, the entrants list is final. In temperatures over 30 °C, crew and boats got beaten by the unmercifully sun. Round 2 will be an exiting one. Fingers crossed for our Belgian Powerboating Team, boat number 4 under the lead of Nico Bertels. He build his own powerboat, by the way. And it’s something else. Take a look at our Facebook page for lots of photo’s. (more…)
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2015 – Grand Prix Of Abu Dhabi
The Abu Dhabi International Marine Sports Club , with the authorization of the UIM National Authority – U.A.E. Marine Sport Federation – in cooperation with Class 1 Promotion, under the aegis of the U.I.M., is organizing in Abu Dhabi – U.A.E. Class One the 2015 Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi. The event is held from 4 to 6 November 2015 as round 2 of the UIM Class 1 & V1 WORLD POWERBOAT CHAMPIONSHIP. It will be a very exciting race in V1 as you can see in the results. Malta based team Chaudron is leading the participants together with the Italian powerboating team Karelpiu. Their powerboat is a tuned Fountain, from an open version to a closed one. Team Chaudron is named after the shipyard owned by Aaron Ciantar who’s driving the homonymous powerboat. The Belgian team Bernico New Star holds third place and the Germain team Searex Baltec is still racing for a place on the desired World Championship podium.
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